President taps former White House aide and pageant finalist for role of U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia after attorney general appointed a conservative lawyer

President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate Lindsey Halligan — a White House aide spearheading the ideological review of the Smithsonian Institution — to be U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia, replacing a prosecutor who was forced out for not bringing fraud charges against New York’s attorney general.

Trump announced the move in a Truth Social post Saturday that suggested he’s in disagreement with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the choice. Earlier in the day, Bondi had installed conservative lawyer Maggie Cleary as acting U.S. attorney in the crucial office in the Washington suburbs.

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