Hi, everyone.

Happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in New York.

The wheels have come off Donald Trump's retribution campaign, at least temporarily.

And this time, Donald Trump has only himself to blame.

A judge today dismissed the criminal cases against two of Donald Trump's perceived

political enemies, the former director of the FBI, Jim Comey, and New York's Attorney General

Letitia James. The judge ruling that the prosecutor who brought the cases was improperly

appointed. Judge Cameron Curry ruling that the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of

Virginia, one Lindsay Halligan, quote, has been unlawfully serving in that role, end quote. You may recall

that the first Trump appointed acting U.S. attorney, Eric Siebert, was fired after he refused to

bring the case against Jim Comey and Tish James, he believed that there was not

enough evidence to charge them with crimes. So then Halligan was appointed 48 hours after that now

infamous Truth Social Post from Trump directing A.G. Pam Bondi, calling her Pam, and calling

for charges for Tish James Comey and Senator Adam shipped and demanding that Bondi put

Halligan in place. Bondi complied, and within days of Halligan's appointment, she took the Comey case

and then the James case to a grand jury, presenting both of them herself. Haligan was appointed

despite the fact that Siebert had already served the 120-day interim

appointment that is allotted for any acting U.S. attorney. That's why the judge today is

ruling this way, that Halligan was unlawfully appointed. The judge writing this and his decision

to dismiss the Comey case, quote, this case presents the unique, if not unprecedented situation

where an unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor, exercising power she did not lawfully possess,

acted alone in conducting a grand jury proceeding and securing an indictment. The judge also

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