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attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsay Halligan.
Brand new as in a couple days brand new.
She was just sworn into the position on Monday.
And that is because last week her predecessor was essentially pushed out.
Trump forced the former U.S.
attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Eric Siebert, to resign last week after Siebert refused to bring charges against Trump's perceived enemies.
New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were at the very top of that list.
Now, Siebert refused to bring those charges because after months of investigating both cases, he did not believe his office had found evidence to support them.
And that's a decision you make before you move a case forward.
So Trump fired him and replaced him with Lindsey Halligan.
Halligan is a clear Trump loyalist.
She has never prosecuted a criminal case, and the only federal cases she has been involved with at all were Trump cases, where she served as one of Trump's personal defense attorneys.
Last night, MSNBC's Ken Delaney reported that after Halligan was sworn into her new position, line prosecutors at the office presented her with a memo suggesting that their case against Comey was too weak to pursue.
Let's not move forward.
That was the recommendation.
That's what Eric Siebert thought, too.
Two sources familiar with the case said specifically that the memo explained why prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to convince a grand jury to indict Comey.
So what happened tonight?
How did grand jury end up indicting former FBI director James Comey after just a week after just a week ago, prosecutors in charge of the case believed there was not enough there there.
And what does all that mean for the rest of the Trump enemies that Trump has sworn in, sworn he will prosecute?