Trump's Scheme To Indict James Comey Will Crash And Burn

Prosecutors could find no evidence or probable cause, but Trump's newly installed US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia is going to try to indict James Comey, and it will not go well.

I would be more concerned if he hadn’t already seen this movie so many times before. Donald Trump sends a message to his attorney general telling her to get it moving on the prosecution of his political enemies.

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The AG responds by getting the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia to resign because he believed that people should not be prosecuted without evidence. In his place came a Trump loyalist who would never let a silly little thing like the law get in the way.

Which leads us to ABC News reporting:

Earlier this week, prosecutors presented Lindsey Halligan -- Trump’s former personal attorney whom he appointed to lead the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia -- with a detailed memo recommending that she decline to bring perjury and obstruction charges against Comey, the sources familiar with the memo said.

A monthslong investigation into Comey by DOJ prosec…