Trump appoints Chattah Nevada’s interim U.S. Attorney 

By Dana Gentry, Nevada Current

Nevada Republican National Committeewoman and former political candidate Sigal Chattah has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as interim U.S. Attorney in Nevada, her office confirmed Friday.

The interim status will be removed if she is confirmed by the Senate.

In a post on X, Nevada Republican Party chairman Michael McDonald said Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi “have the warrior they need in Nevada. Sigal will rigorously advocate for the President’s priorities and investigate corruption throughout the Silver State.”

Chattah did not respond to phone calls or texts seeking comment on her nomination.

“Sigal is a fierce defender of personal liberties, best known for her work reopening churches in Nevada after their unconstitutional shutdown,” the Nevada Republican Party said on X.

During her unsuccessful run in 2022 for Nevada attorney general, Chattah declared her Democratic opponent, incumbent Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Black man, “should be hanging from a f–king crane”; longed for fewer “pronoun badges” and transgender individuals in America, while describing them with an offensive slur; and invited comparisons with Sen. Joe McCarthy and former Pres. Donald Trump by calling for the imprisonment of political foes.

Chattah insists she never considered apologizing to Ford for what was widely viewed as a racist comment.

“I think he’s a corrupt public official and I think he’s betrayed Nevadans. I’m not going to apologize for that,” she said.

While campaigning in the AG race, Chattah told the Current that if elected, she’d be a bipartisan nightmare for anyone engaged in public corruption, adding she’d “absolutely” investigate Trump as well as Nevada’s fake electors. “I don’t care whether you have an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ by your name. If you’re in a criminal enterprise, public corruption, you’re getting investigated.”

As a candidate, Chattah pledged to “protect Nevadans’ lawful right to keep and bear arms” and “uphold the Constitutional rights to peaceable assembly and petition the government for a redress of grievances.”  

In an opinion column in January, Chattah blamed President Barack Obama for “gross abuses of the Patriot Act,” resulting in the proliferation of domestic terrorism rooted in Islam. “At best, this encore administration has four years to correct the course of the last 15 years of homegrown Islamic threats to America.”

Chattah was born in Israel and moved to the U.S. at the age of 14.

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