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Swede

(37,400 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 09:01 AM Friday

None of this is normal (Comey indictment)

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Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter what the indictment says, because Halligan was going to indict Comey no matter what. That’s literally why she’s in the job — to bring the sort of sham charges that the previous US attorney, Eric Siebert, would not.

Siebert told senior DOJ officials there was not enough evidence to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud and that he had concerns about any case against Comey. Siebert resigned, though Trump insists he was fired. But the specifics don’t really doesn’t matter. In the end, Siebert was out because he wouldn’t do precisely what Halligan would do.

Halligan isn’t just malleable and unethical. She also has no idea what she’s doing, having never prosecuted a single case. She was an insurance lawyer before Trump plucked her out of obscurity in Florida to be one of his defense lawyers in the classified documents case. Halligan also appears to still work for the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Staff Attorney, where she has been in charge of making sure that the Smithsonian and other museums don’t have anything that bums white supremacists out, like mentions of slavery.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/comey-indictment-halligan-trump

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None of this is normal (Comey indictment) (Original Post) Swede Friday OP
The thing that all these lawyers seem to not get... appmanga Friday #1
The media is not talking about the Epstein files. Emile Friday #2
"Normal" is not a word associated with Trump... kentuck Friday #3
As much as we'd all love to see Comey get what's coming to him Warpy Friday #4

appmanga

(1,275 posts)
1. The thing that all these lawyers seem to not get...
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 09:11 AM
Friday

...is, yes, Trump can pardon them, but he can't keep them from being disbarred. The can ask Sydney Powell, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Ken Chesboro all about that, and yet they still find people (who are incompetent, so they shouldn't be lawyers in the first place) who'll violate the ethics of the profession.

Warpy

(113,948 posts)
4. As much as we'd all love to see Comey get what's coming to him
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:46 AM
Friday

for his last minute "we have new evidence" that threw the 2016 election to Butthole, that's not what this is really about..

Comey is as dirty as they come, but this whole thing looks like revenge to me.

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