Pam Bondi CONCEDES DEFEAT in STUNNING announcement

I'm joined now by All Rise News's Adam. Classfeld. Adam, we have a rare. concession of defeat by the Trump. administration, specifically his DOJ. Can you explain what just happened out. of the mouth of Pam Bondi? Pam Bondi has. announced that Lindseay Halligan, the. former. masquerading US attorney for the Eastern. District of Virginia, is out. that this. follows a federal judge's ruling that. Halligan, remember, is the same person. who brought the failed cases against. James Comey and Leticia James and was.

brought on to the Eastern District of. Virginia specifically for that purpose. After fighting tooth and nail to keep a. firsttime unqualified prosecutor in that. position, they finally bit the bullet. They they they blinked and she is out. Why would the Trump administration do. this? This is an administration that has. staked so much of its credibility on. this idea that they're never going to. accept defeat. Certainly never going to. concede defeat. And so in this instance,

why was it so important to them to say, you know what, the court says that. Lindseay Halligan was improperly. appointed, so we're going to just kind. of lay down our arms and uh and take her. out of this position. Well, it's the. laws of gravity, Brian, because what. we've seen throughout Trump's second. term is that when the courts stand up to. a bully, the bully folds. And we've seen. that in the case of Kilar Baker Garcia, for example, Kilar Baker Garcia, it took.

five court orders to get him out of an. El Salvador prison, CCOT. They said that. he would never ever step foot on US soil. after uh they brought him to US soil. They had him uh after he's in criminal. detention, he wins pre-trial release. After he wins pre-trial release, they. put him in immigration detention. And. after all of this noise, saying that. we're going to that the courts cannot.

control this. You cannot order us to let. him be on US soil. He's currently. awaiting trial in US soil. And why, Lindseay Halligan? Why give up the ghost. in that fight now? They ran out of. options. her temporary tenure ran to a. close. It's supposed to be a 120day. interimm tenure even if she were. legitimately appointed, which she was. not. There was a binding court order. disqualifying her. They tried an. interpretation of that order that would.

allow her to remain in that office after. her humiliating defeats for the entire. purpose that she's there to prosecute. two of Trump's enemies. And after that. fails and after a judge warns not only. Halagan but Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch. that they can all face professional. discipline if they all continue to. insist that she is acting as a US. attorney when she is not legally allowed.

to serve on that basis. That's when they. give up the ghost because they ran out. of options. Gravity caught up to them. they had to fold. >> Do you think that there was any sense. from Lindseay Halligan herself that. imperiling her own law license might not. be worth just this fool's errand of. continuing to serve in this position. where all of her prosecutions would get. swatted down anyway? I mean, the reality. is we know that no judges were buying.

anything with her name signed on it. And. so, so it it was symbolic as it was, but. now she was she was um she was dealing. with the the increasing threat of her. own law license for the rest of her life. uh getting taken away, and that's her. livelihood. I'm sure that she knew if she continued. in that position, she faced a virtual. certainty of a referral for disciplinary. proceedings because a federal judge told. her that that day. And on the same day,

just hours before that ruling, when a. federal judge said, "If you persist in. masquerading, I'm using his language. now, masquerading in this charade that. you are a US attorney, that you will be. referred for possible discipline, that. that he will initiate disciplinary. proceedings." That that happened today. And hours before then, the chief judge. of the district posted a job listing for. her replacement. So, I think that the.

double whammy of that, the writing. couldn't have been more clearly spelled. on the wall. And Pam Bondi gave her a. really lofty sendoff about the wonderful. job she did in that district in 120 days. when she blew their two most. high-profile cases, humiliated herself. in court again and again. didn't know. basic grand jury procedure. To the. extent that she let most of the grand. jury out of the room before they can.

attest to the actual indictment, their. votes on the indictment, it's. humiliating defeat after humiliating. defeat followed by certain danger. So, I. want to talk about whoever is foolish. enough to take over her position. We. know that that position was was filled. solely because Lindsey Halligan would. present herself as some lackey perfectly. willing to cowtow to Pam Bondi and. Donald Trump and try to engage in these. vindictive prosecutions. there is a lot. of risk for a prosecutor to engage in.

this stuff knowing full well that even. if they were appointed properly which. she was not that they would that they. would face almost certain defeat because. the case for vindictive prosecution. against Leticia James and James Comey. and on and on and on is so strong and so. does that make it less likely that. there's going to be some hack prosecutor. who's willing to step up and fill this. void knowing that they're basically just. going to you know this is like the. equivalent of just putting putting. yourself on the front lines in like. World War I and expecting to survive.

So, is it going to be less likely that. there's some prosecutor who's going to. be willing to do that? Or on the flip. side, do you think based on what you've. seen from this administration that. there's always some hack prosecutor. that's going to be um drawn drawn in by. proximity to power who's going to be. perfectly content to, you know, sacrifice their own livelihood, their. own reputation, their own law license so. long as they could spend a few minutes. uh uh graveling at the feet of dear. leader Donald Trump. >> A moth always loves the flame until it's.

too late. I mean, let's just look at the. history. And it's as old as Trump's. first term. You had Michael Cohen. You. had uh you know, you have Rudy Giuliani. How many people have incinerated their. careers? >> I mean, John John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, uh uh and and that's just, you know, that's the attorneys. Then you have. Gordon Sland, Kaylee Mciny, uh Marjorie. Taylor Green, um Mike Pence, Rex Rex. Tillerson, all of these people Trump is. thrown under the bus the moment they.

lose their political usefulness. And. these are people who hitch their wagons. to the Trump train only to watch. themselves fall out of favor with him. the moment that they can no longer be of. use to him. The thing that I would think. I I would advise people to keep a close. eye on especially in light of uh today's. news and Pam Bondi and excuse me. Lindseay Hallan's replacement. Look at. what the judges of the Eastern District. of Virginia did do in the coming days.

because right now they're trying to fill. Lindseay Haligan's position and the line. prosecutors of the Eastern District of. Virginia. They could not find a single. person in the district to take the cases. of J against James Comey and Leticia. James. All of them didn't want to touch. this with a 10-ft pole. And right now. the judges are looking for her. replacement. Do they replace her with a. qualified person? And if they do that,

does Trump fire that person and start. the process again? So, I think her. replacement, you know, maybe we'll see a. competent prosecutor in the Eastern. District of Virginia with the judges in. charge and knowing the actual stable of. prosecutors who are not political. appointees, but career civil servants. who have been there from across multiple. administrations. Will the judges have their say? And if. so, will Trump try to muck it up? So, I.

want you to dig into that a little bit. because I'm actually unfamiliar with. this process. Is it the judges who. choose US attorneys for each respective. district and then Trump has to either um. fire them or leave them in place or is. it Trump who appoints these US attorneys. and then the judges get to vote on. whether or not they want to keep those. people in place. >> So, the most US attorneys are appointed. by the president of the United States, but they need to pass have the advice. and consent of the Senate. something.

that Trump could never get for Lindseay. Halligan and the other US attorneys who. have been disqualified. Now, Trump likes. to complain and claim that, oh, he can't. get the blue slip in blue states like. Virginia that it's Democratic senators. who are holding this up. But let's get. real. In Trump's first term, it was. never a problem to get bipartisan. support across the Senate for qualified. candidates because in other.

administrations, we saw US attorneys as. people who would follow the law and not. be political hatchetmen. Trump's real. complaint, the reason why the advice and. consent of the Senate is so hard for him. is because he is trying to qu to appoint. the likes of Lindseay Hagan, his former. attorney, his former White House aid who. has no prosecutorial experience, people. who would not get support from the.

Senate. And so why are the judges. stepping in? because that is essentially. the reserve uh manner in which you can. appoint a US attorney if the interim. appointment fails that you know the. interim appointment is supposed to la. it's interim for a reason it's supposed. to last 120 days and at at which time. either that candidate gets the approval. of the judges of the district or the. advice and consent of the senate if.

neither happens. Then the judges can decide. The judges. can appoint someone. But that is we're. only at this stage because Trump has. failed to put in qualified people in. offices that he is where he's installing. people to be his hatchet men and women. Adam, you know that if the Trump. administration had to swallow this loss. that they're going to fume about it. They're going to be irate about the fact. that Lindsay Halligan wasn't allowed to.

continue in her role. And it's not like. the Trump administration to just say, "Oh well, them's the rules and so we'll. just have to, you know, abide by them. and hopefully the next time it works out. better." These are people for whom if. the rules don't work, then you change. the rules. You obliterate the rules. You, you know, flip the the rules on on. their head and you make up your own. rules. And so as we proceed into this. process, recognizing the importance that. the Eastern District of Virginia has, uh, especially as it relates to these. vindictive prosecutions that Trump wants.

to engage in, do you presume that Pam. Bondi and Trump will just kind of cross. their fingers and hope that it all works. out well next time, or do you think that. we're going to see some upending of the. rules here and and them try and shoehorn. in some prosecutor in some other way, even if they can't get what they want. through regular course of order. >> I think that they're going to try some. shenanigans. But I also talk about the. the law that I mentioned earlier, the. law of gravity. There are there they.

have tried their bag of tricks. They. have tried to a large extent to go on. the attack against the judge for whose. order led to the ouster of Lindseay. Halligan. uh uh basically writing a. legal brief that went on the full attack. against him said that he was leading an. inquisition said that he made. rudimentary and elementary uh uh errors. in the law. Uh as a matter of fact in.

the ruling that had warned halagan about. disciplinary proceedings being opened up. against her if she kept masquerading as. a US attorney. He had mentioned that. this legal brief which was co-signed by. Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch. This legal. brief he said was more fitting for a. cable news talk show that it was so full. of vitrial in his words that it's not. something that he expects from litigants. in his courtroom, let alone the.

Department of Justice. So to answer your. question, Brian, do I think that. [snorts] Todd Blanch and Pam Bondi are. going to see the error of their ways? No, but they are seeing that their. options are getting increasingly limited. in this particular fight. Well, look, we'll take the good news where we can. get it. Uh, and more good news is that. Adam covers all of this stuff on his. newsletter, All Rise News. So, I'm going. to put the link to All Rise News, right. here on the screen and also in the post.

description of this video. If you want. to hear more from him, stay up to date. on the most breaking legal news as it. breaks. I highly recommend that you. subscribe to All Rise News. Again, that. link is right here on the screen and. also in the post description of this. video. Adam, as always, thanks for the. time. >> Thanks, Brian. Always a pleasure.