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James Comey’s loss could be the Smithsonian Institution’s gain. On September 20, President Donald Trump — who’s had a rocky relationship with this state, most recently when he pulled Space Command from Colorado Springs — announced that he was appointing current White House aide (and trusted Coloradan) Lindsey Halligan to serve as the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Virginia, even though she has no experience as a prosecutor and has only been involved in three federal cases. But as CNN reports, she’s now ready to propose that a grand jury indict the former head of the FBI, before the statute of limitations on Comey’s tenure at the federal agency runs out on September 30.
The move was presaged in a Truth Social post that Trump intended for Attorney General Pam Bondi but accidentally went public. “We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!”
After that September 20 post, Trump quickly, and intentionally, announced Halligan’s appointment on Truth Social: “She is extremely intelligent, fearless and, working with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, has the strength and determination to be absolutely OUTSTANDING in this new and very important role.”
This “new and very important role” pulls Halligan off her last Trump assignment: working with Vice President J.D. Vance on restoring “truth and sanity to American history” by cleaning up the Smithsonian Institution. The 36-year-old Halligan’s qualifications for that job? She’s already made some history herself, signing on as a lawyer for Trump in 2022, between his presidential terms, after the raid at Mar-A-Lago.
And she enjoyed her history classes at Regis University.
Yes, Halligan is from Colorado. Born in Maine, she was raised in Broomfield, where she attended Holy Family High School before earning a bachelor’s degree in politics and broadcast journalism at Regis (where she became a friend of the future Erika Kirk). She also participated in the Miss Colorado USA contest (a feeder for Trump’s Miss Universe pageant), then went to Florida to attend the University of Miami School of Law. After interning with the Innocence Project (a resume aberration), she moved to a job at a Fort Lauderdale law firm, often defending insurance companies against claims by homeowners.
From there, it was a quick jump to Mar-A-Lago and the White House, and then her history assignment. In a March 27 executive order, Trump announced his plan to “restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness — igniting the imagination of young minds, honoring the richness of American history and innovation, and instilling pride in the hearts of all Americans.”
As the order elaborated:”Saving Our Smithsonian. (a) The Vice President, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Staff Secretary, Lindsey Halligan, Esq., shall work to effectuate the policies of this order through his role on the Smithsonian Board of Regents with respect to the Smithsonian Institution and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo, including by seeking to remove improper ideology from such properties, and shall recommend to the President any additional actions necessary to fully effectuate such policies.”
“I would say that improper ideology would be weaponizing history,” Halligan told the Washington Post after Trump’s Smithsonian announcement. “We don’t need to overemphasize the negative to teach people that certain aspects of our nation’s history may have been bad. [That overemphasis] just makes us grow further and further apart.
Now, as this nation approaches its 250th anniversary, Halligan’s about ready to make some more history…by weaponizing the Department of Justice.
