Report: White House Feud Erupts Between Trump’s Leading Ladies

Point­ing up at por­traits of Pres­i­dents Abra­ham Lin­coln and Andrew Jack­son lin­ing the White House walls, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump told his top law enforce­ment offi­cers that those men had been more vil­i­fied by the Wash­ing­ton estab­lish­ment than any­one else in Amer­i­can his­to­ry.

“Nobody’s been treat­ed like I’ve been treat­ed,” the pres­i­dent claimed.

On Sep­tem­ber 21, Trump appoint­ed Lind­sey Hal­li­gan, one of his for­mer per­son­al lawyers, to run the Jus­tice Department’s East­ern Dis­trict of Vir­ginia office. The move over­ruled Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bon­di, who had cho­sen con­ser­v­a­tive lawyer Mary “Mag­gie” Cleary for the role.

Hal­li­gan, a 36-year-old for­mer beau­ty queen and Miss Col­orado final­ist, imme­di­ate­ly began tak­ing action. Under her lead­er­ship:

• For­mer FBI Direc­tor James Comey was indict­ed in late Sep­tem­ber on charges of lying to Con­gress and obstruc­tion of jus­tice.
• New York Attor­ney Gen­er­al Leti­tia James faced indict­ment in Octo­ber on mort­gage fraud charges relat­ed to a Vir­ginia prop­er­ty.
• Last week, for­mer nation­al secu­ri­ty advis­er John Bolton was charged in Mary­land with an 18-count indict­ment for ille­gal­ly shar­ing clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion and retain­ing doc­u­ments at his home.

All three have denied the charges.

Sources tell the Dai­ly Mail that the indict­ments blind­sided Bon­di and senior Jus­tice Depart­ment offi­cials, who were furi­ous at what they viewed as Hal­li­gan act­ing independently—even though she was fol­low­ing Trump’s demands. Sev­er­al insid­ers say Bon­di has since attempt­ed to dis­tance her­self from all three cas­es.

“It’s real and it’s per­son­al. They both want to be the president’s enforcer,” one source said.

The result, accord­ing to sources, is a vicious pow­er strug­gle between two of the most promi­nent women in Trump’s orbit. Halligan’s role is seen as a move to encour­age com­pe­ti­tion, and insid­ers note: when two of his lieu­tenants com­pete, Trump usu­al­ly comes out on top.

Ten­sions have been vis­i­ble pub­licly. On Sep­tem­ber 20, Trump post­ed crit­i­cism of Bon­di on Truth Social, urg­ing her to act against polit­i­cal oppo­nents he described as “guilty as hell” and com­plain­ing of “all talk, no action.”

“JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” he con­clud­ed.

The mes­sage, report­ed­ly intend­ed as pri­vate encour­age­ment for Bon­di, drew skep­ti­cism from insid­ers:

“That does­n’t sound like Trump,” said one source famil­iar with the dynam­ic between Trump and Bon­di. “If the pres­i­dent wants to send a mes­sage, he’ll pick up the phone and call them.”

The White House insists there is no rift between Trump and Bon­di. A spokesper­son told the Dai­ly Mail:

“The pres­i­dent has full con­fi­dence in her and in his entire team. Any insin­u­a­tion oth­er­wise is base­less gos­sip meant to divide the admin­is­tra­tion.”

Jus­tice Depart­ment spokesman Chad Gilmartin echoed the state­ment, say­ing the depart­ment remains “unit­ed as one team” and will not be dis­tract­ed by “palace intrigue or use­less gos­sip.” Pub­licly, Trump con­tin­ues to praise Bon­di even while pri­vate­ly urg­ing her to act more quick­ly.