Lindsey Halligan, then a private attorney for Donald Trump, exits the Department of Justice on June 5, 2023, following a meeting to discuss the investigation into White House documents bearing classified markings that were found at Trump's Florida estate. Nathan Howard/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File

Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney in one of the country’s most important federal prosecutor shops, was effectively set up to fail last Thursday, sources said, when in her first ever presentation before a grand jury, she convinced the panel to indict former FBI Director James Comey on two of three counts.

The Justice Department and the seasoned lawyers at the Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney’s Office, known for its aggressive government leak and natio

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