[HN Gopher] "Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange wi...
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"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim
U.S. attorney
Author : ilamont
Score : 92 points
Date : 2025-10-21 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lawfaremedia.org)
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| actionfromafar wrote:
| No takesies-backsies, Anna Lindsey Halligan! :-D
|
| I don't get it. The Trumpsters play it like it's already a
| dictatorship. You can't threaten the press like this so soon.
| That only works when you have a firm grip on power and a credible
| history of jailing and exiling journalists.
|
| It's like she watched Hegseth drunk texting in Signalgate and
| thought, "which journalist could _I_ add on Signal ".
| fzeroracer wrote:
| This entire admin functions like giving the worst posters on a
| forum unbridled power. The only thing they care about is owning
| their perceived enemies. When you look at it that way, the fact
| that all of them behave like children and make the dumbest
| decisions possible all make sense.
| afavour wrote:
| > The Trumpsters play it like it's already a dictatorship
|
| I feel like a lot of them genuinely think that we're past the
| point of no return and they will experience no repercussions.
| I'd have expected Halligan to have a different view given her
| legal training, but...
| slg wrote:
| The percentage of the US population that voted for Trump went
| up roughly half a percentage point from 2020 to 2024 and most
| of American society has responded as if that makes him a
| permanent dictator. And it isn't just his supporters, most
| Democratic politicians and ostensibly apolitical corporations
| are behaving that way too. I don't get it.
| harimau777 wrote:
| I don't think that people are afraid that he will become a
| dictator because of his popular support so much as because
| no one is standing up to his abuse of power.
|
| There's also the fact that MAGA is putting their thumb more
| and more on the election scales. I'm already not sure I
| think the next election will be fair considering how much
| MAGA has cheated already.
| freen wrote:
| It's a commitment device: if the only way you'll stay out of
| jail is if Trump is elected, you do anything you can, break
| any laws, whatever, to get Trump elected.
|
| Because then you won't go to jail.
|
| See Santos.
| njovin wrote:
| In her defense, she's an insurance lawyer who got onto
| Trump's good side by bad-mouthing how woke The Smithsonian
| is. She doesn't exactly have a depth of criminal justice
| experience to draw from.
| josefritzishere wrote:
| This is not the behavior of a licensed, professional attorney.
| wrs wrote:
| This administration seems to be "playing government", like little
| kids "play house". Assuming a role without understanding what the
| role actually is, using words they've heard the grownups use
| without knowing what they mean, declaring new rules whenever they
| don't like how the game is going.
|
| I just hope the grownups come back before the kids burn the house
| down completely.
| nyc_data_geek wrote:
| The grownups have left the building, and the brats have guns.
| drivingmenuts wrote:
| This is an administration of Karens (sorry if your name is
| actually Karen). They want to bitch and moan about perceived
| injustices and have been given an immense power to prosecute
| those "injustices", regardless of justification. The people who
| are supposed to reign in those actions have abdicated
| responsibility in its entirety.
|
| What a shitshow.
| treis wrote:
| Jesus does this article ever get to what the messages say?
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