Pam Bondi Figures Out Time Travel for Lindsey Halligan
In addition to vanishing the Epstein Files and making ethics violations disappear, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has seemingly cracked the code on time travel. Incredible!
Ever since Trump demanded that Bondi appoint Lindsey Halligan as the top attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in September, it’s been a bumpy ride for the former beauty pageant queen. Mainly because she has zero prosecutorial experience and doesn’t understand how to speak with journalists, but also because she was appointed to do the president’s dirty legal work—which she wasted no time getting started on.
But with Halligan’s qualifications in question, it appears Bondi revisited the date around her appointment. In a court document that was signed on Halloween and filed on Monday, Bondi wrote that as of September 22, she was appointing Halligan “to the additional position of Special Attorney.” (I, too, would like to pretend October didn’t happen.) This way, if a judge decides that yes, Trump unlawfully installed Halligen, she’ll still have plenty of authority to oversee cases against Trump’s political foes. Which is neither how time—nor the law—works.
Bondi added that she was also “ratifying” Halligan’s “actions” regarding the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James (D), both of which are cases that Halligan—alone—collected evidence for and signed.
The “special attorney” slip-in came a little over a week after Comey and James filed motions arguing that their prosecutions should be thrown out, since Trump just stuck Halligan in the position to investigate them.