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Trump Prosecutor SINKS Entire DOJ In and OUT of the COURT ROOM

2025-10-28 Entertainment
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Trump Prosecutor Faces Disqualification Over Use of Disappearing Messaging Apps

A judge appointed by Bill Clinton will now decide the fate of Trump's handpicked EDVA prosecutor following allegations of destroying vital federal records using Signal's auto-delete feature. Learn how this procedural battle ties together major political figures and unprecedented evidence destruction claims.

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  • A lawsuit challenges the legitimacy of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA).
  • American Oversight is investigating Halligan for potentially destroying public records by using Signal's disappearing message function.
  • The key decision on Halligan’s eligibility has been reassigned to a senior judge appointed by Bill Clinton in South Carolina.

This segment breaks down the dual legal crises facing interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan: a challenge to her appointment authority and a formal investigation into the automated deletion of communications involving federal case records. This matters because the ruling could immediately dissolve her authority over high-profile prosecutions.

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Trump's handpicked novice prosecutor is in hot water again, as new suits are about to filed about her using "disappearing" message apps to destroy federal records about her prosecutions of Leticia James and James Comey, and a Clinton Judge has been appointed to decide whether she should be a prosecutor at all! Popok breaks it all down on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF by MeidasTouch podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595

Top Comments (10)

@RobertBrundage 2025-10-28

Where is the American Bar Association. Are you lawyers that protected? Trump has made your profession and diploma a laughing stock. Now is the time for disbarment and criminal charges!!!

228 7 replies
@elfindelsol 2025-10-28

This is a dystopian nightmare. 10 months of Trump's disastrous presidency has felt like 10 years.

202 10 replies
@israb015 2025-10-28

Can we vote all of these clowns out please??? Let’s go BLUE!!!

193 8 replies
@davidgrochmal6103 2025-10-28

Why are we even paying taxes to a evil tyrannical government why !!! This is totall bullsh-t

153 7 replies
@pamelaburns1081 2025-10-28

Can we remove her bar license please. People work hard to get this and she makes a mockery of it

143 5 replies
@MrTabo2023 2025-10-28

A comedy of errors done by an incompetent DOJ.

137 7 replies
@MartaCQuinones2022 2025-10-28

What a freaking mess!!!!

101 2 replies
@dustoff499 2025-10-28

We no longer have faith in our judicial system. This drama should never take place for _any case_ let alone those that involve such high stakes.

84 2 replies
@mikeh1072 2025-10-28

This crapshow has to stop.

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@phouangkeophavongsa2366 2025-10-28

Now charge all Trump's Administration for violating the records act

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