唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，他将任命一名前辩护律师领导弗吉尼亚州一个重要的联邦检察官办公室。
林赛·哈利根(Lindsey Halligan)目前在白宫工作人员秘书办公室工作，曾在2000年总统大选期间代表特朗普机密文件调查.
特朗普宣布了这一消息在一系列的帖子中他在社交媒体平台上表示，弗吉尼亚东区的美国检察官办公室需要一位“强硬的检察官”，以便“推动事情向前发展”
邮报接着说:“我们不需要一个民主党人支持的‘共和党人’。”我将提名林赛·哈利根担任我们伟大国家这一重要地区的联邦检察官。她将公平、聪明，并将为所有人提供迫切需要的公正!"
该声明是在该办公室的前任负责人埃里克·西伯特，辞去他的职位特朗普政府官员施加压力，要求对纽约司法部长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯(Letitia James)提起刑事诉讼。
哈利根没有任何检察经验，她在佛罗里达州获得了律师执业资格，并在加入特朗普的法律团队时处理保险索赔，当时司法部正在调查特朗普在第一个任期结束后离职后对机密材料的处理。
最近，哈里根在白宫的职位上接受了特朗普的任务，努力根除政府所谓的史密森学会博物馆的激进意识形态.
特朗普在另一篇关于她的任命的社交媒体帖子中说:“林赛是一位强硬、聪明、忠诚的律师，他与我合作了很长时间，包括在反对弯曲的乔·拜登和激进的左翼民主党人将我们的司法系统武器化的斗争中取得了胜利，当她在佛罗里达州棕榈滩我的家Mar-a-Lago遭到违宪和非美国式的袭击时，她亲眼目睹了我的权利。”。
特朗普的声明他任命哈利根此前不久，他曾在一篇文章中批评美国司法部长帕姆·邦迪(Pam Bondi)对其政治对手的调查速度，包括对詹姆斯抵押贷款欺诈指控的调查。
在周六的后续帖子中，特朗普写道:“帕姆·邦迪作为美国司法部长做得很好。”
本周早些时候，美国广播公司新闻报道称，特朗普在预期发射据消息人士称，调查人员未能找到詹姆斯抵押贷款欺诈的罪证。消息人士称，尽管调查人员未能找到明确的证据证明她犯了罪，但特朗普官员已敦促西伯特对詹姆斯提出指控。
特朗普周五在椭圆形办公室对记者说:“在我看来，她好像对什么事情非常内疚，但我真的不知道。”
当被问及西伯特时，特朗普说他希望他“离开”这个职位，因为弗吉尼亚州的两名民主党参议员支持他的提名。特朗普在5月份提名西伯特担任这一职位，自特朗普就职以来，他一直担任临时联邦检察官。
“当我看到他得到了那两个人的批准时，我说，拉它，因为他不可能有任何好处，”特朗普说。“当我得知他们投了他的票时，我说，我不是真的想要他。”
弗吉尼亚州东区美国检察官办公室的工作人员周六下午收到了一封来自玛吉·克利里(Maggie Cleary)的电子邮件，这位官员最近加入了司法部刑事部门，她说她被任命为该办公室的代理负责人。
Trump says he is appointing Lindsey Halligan, one of his former attorneys, to lead key prosecutor's office
The post went on to say: "What we don’t need is a Democrat Endorsed 'Republican.' I will be nominating Lindsey Halligan to be the United States Attorney in this very important part of our Great Country. She will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!"
The announcement came a day after the previous head of that office, Erik Siebert,resigned his positionamid pressure from Trump administration officials to bring a criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Halligan, who does not have any prosecutorial experience, is licensed to practice law in Florida and handled insurance claims when she joined Trump's legal team amid the probe by the Justice Department into Trump's handling of classified material after leaving office following his first term.
More recently, from her post in the White House, Halligan was tasked by Trump with an effort to root out what the administration callsradical ideology at the Smithsonian Institution museums.
"Lindsey is a tough, smart, and loyal attorney, who has worked with me for a long time, including in the winning fight against the Weaponization of our Justice System by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats, which she witnessed firsthand when she stood up for my rights during the Unconstitutional and UnAmerican raid on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida," Trump said in another social media post about her appointment.
Trump's announcementthat he was appointing Halliganto the position came shortly after a previous post in which he appeared to criticize U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi over the pace of investigations into his political opponents, including the investigation of James over an allegation of mortgage fraud.
In the follow-up post on Saturday, Trump wrote: "Pam Bondi is doing a GREAT job as Attorney General of the United States."
Earlier this week, ABC News reported that Trump wasexpected to fireSiebert after investigators were unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against James, according to sources.Trump officials had pushed Siebert to bring charges against James, despite investigators failing to find clear evidence that she committed a crime, sources said.
"It looks to me like she is very guilty of something, but I really don't know," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.
When asked about Siebert, Trump said he wanted him "out" of the position because Virginia's two Democratic senators supported his nomination. Trump nominated Siebert for the position in May, and he has served as the interim U.S. attorney since Trump's inauguration.
"When I saw that he got approved by those two men, I said, pull it, because he can't be any good," Trump said. "When I learned that they voted for him, I said, I don't really want him."
Staff at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia received an email Saturday afternoon from Maggie Cleary, an official who recently joined the Justice Department's Criminal Division, who said she was named the acting head of the office.
