Devlin Barrett

Right, exactly.

I think it's safe to say that there's no one Trump despises more than James Comey.

And if you fast forward now to 2025...

there has been a building pressure on the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute Comey.

And what you saw over the summer was career prosecutors taking a look at the evidence that had been gathered

on a range of issues, but primarily a question of whether he may have lied in congressional testimony from 2020 career prosecutors look at that and say, there's no case here.

Right.

And then in very short order, the person running that office is forced out who was a Trump pick themselves and serving in that role on a

The administration puts Lindsey Halligan.

Lindsey Halligan is a longtime Trump aide who had no prosecutorial experience before she was given this assignment to become the U.S.

attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.

And not just bring a case against James Comey, but also bring a case against Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

The Trump history on Letitia James is that she pursued him in court.

She sued him in New York and won a verdict for hundreds of millions of dollars over business fraud related to Trump's businesses.

And he has been mad about it for a very long time.

Again, you get to this summer and Justice Department officials are under pressure to charge Letitia James with some sort of mortgage fraud.

And eventually, once Lindsay Halligan is in place, Halligan brings an indictment.

Well, that's certainly what it looks like based on what we know.

And what we know is that career prosecutors said not only do we think this is not a good case, we don't even think this is a strong enough case to merit presenting it to a grand jury.

Correct.