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struggle4progress

(125,063 posts)
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 05:10 PM Saturday

'She literally does not know what she is doing': Trump attorney struggles


MSNBC
Oct 25, 2025

New York Attorney General Letitia James made her first court appearance yesterday, where she pled not guilty to federal charges of alleged mortgage fraud. The indictment was brought by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, a former member of Trump’s legal team with no prosecutorial experience, who accused James of misleading a bank to secure favorable mortgage terms. James slammed the indictment as “baseless” and politically motivated. MSNBC contributor Sam Stein and Georgetown law professor and MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler join “The Weekend” to discuss.

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Ray Bruns

(5,715 posts)
1. Her knowing what she's doing and getting a conviction really isn't the point. the indictment is the point.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 05:29 PM
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MarineCombatEngineer

(16,345 posts)
2. And when James, Comey and anyone else she charges have their charges dropped, or they're acquitted,
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 05:34 PM
Saturday

Been A Dick Donald will throw her under the bus and then "appoint" another incompetent fool to go after his political enemies

Lather, rinse, repeat.

kacekwl

(8,730 posts)
3. I find it hard to
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:05 PM
Saturday

believe that the Nazi patty doesn't have a "real" attorney holding her unqualified hand through this.

Maru Kitteh

(30,874 posts)
4. She's there to talk to the reporters that talk to him on his TV screen.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:28 PM
Saturday

That’s her job. She’s not there to lawyer, or to accomplish a successful prosecution.


GoCubsGo

(34,492 posts)
5. She's a perfect fit for this administration.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:31 PM
Saturday

None of them know what the hell they're doing, from the top on down.

struggle4progress

(125,063 posts)
8. Lindsey Halligan, the former Miss Colorado finalist and Trump lawyer
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:25 AM
15 hrs ago

By Natalie O'Neill
Published Sep. 25, 2025, 5:02 p.m. ET

... In her 20s, Halligan twice competed in Miss Colorado USA, finishing fourth in 2010 and making it to the semi-finals in 2009 ...

Halligan largely represented insurance companies in disputes with owners over residential and commercial properties ...

In 2021, she met Trump at a West Palm Beach golf course, where she had come straight from court wearing one of her signature fitted suits ...

Halligan ... later represented Trump in a dismissed defamation lawsuit against CNN ...

In March 2025, Halligan joined the White House as senior associate staff secretary ...

https://nypost.com/us-news/who-is-lindsey-halligan/

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