Trump DOJ Prosecutor Sent Journalist Dozens of Texts -- Then Tried to Claim 'Off the Record' [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Oct 20th, 2025, 9:02 pm
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan sent Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower dozens of text messages earlier this month to complain about her reporting — and then attempted to claim after the fact that the conversation was off the record. It was most certainly not off the record, and on Monday evening, Bower published screenshots of their texts.
In her article, Bower described how on the afternoon of Saturday, October 11, she got a new message alert on Signal — the same app where Trump administration officials infamously shared attack plans on a group chat — that purported to be from Halligan.
Bower initially “assumed the exchange was a hoax,” she wrote, because “while it is not unusual for lawyers to reach out to me about my reporting or commentary, it is highly unusual for a U.S. attorney to do so regarding an ongoing prosecution—particularly in a high-profile case in which her conduct is already the subject of immense public scrutiny.”
It was not a hoax, and Halligan sent her dozens of messages before attempting to claim after the fact that their conversation had been off the record.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/trump-doj-prosecutor-sent-journalist-dozens-of-texts-then-tried-to-claim-off-the-record/
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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6:12 PM · Oct 20, 2025
Link to Anna Bower article - https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here
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