39 | Friday, September 19, 2025Trump nominates White House aide to be top US prosecutor for office probing Letitia James Print | Front Page | Email this story To:From:Message:From (email):Message:WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday. She has more recently been enlisted in a White House effort to remove what the administration contends is "improper ideology" from Smithsonian properties. Asked as he departed the White House if he was criticizing Bondi, Trump said he just wanted action. In announcing Halligan's nomination soon after on social media, Trump said that Bondi was "doing a GREAT job." While Siebert said in an email to colleagues Friday evening that he had submitted his resignation, Trump said in a social media post: "He didn't quit, I fired him!"