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bigtree

(93,257 posts)
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:25 PM Nov 13

Did Halligan pull some nefarious shit in the grand jury hearing and destroy the evidence?

...or at best, concealed it.

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins
Judge Cameron McGowan Currie says a section of the grand jury transcript in James Comey’s case is “missing.”

Currie said that she did not receive transcripts for several minutes of the proceedings from late September.



____Judge Currie said Thursday that a section of the grand jury transcript in James Comey’s case is “missing.”

Currie said that she did not receive transcripts for part of the proceedings from late September.

“It appears there was no court reporter present,” the judge said, or the court reporter had stopped taking notes.

The missing section is important because Attorney General Pam Bondi had said she reviewed the presentations as part of the government’s arguments that Lindsey Halligan had the authority to secure an indictment against the former FBI director.

“It became obvious to me that the attorney general could not have reviewed” the entire proceeding, Currie said.

The “missing” portion of the grand jury transcripts that Currie referred to was from 4:28pm ET until the return of the indictment, which happened much later in the evening.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/lindsey-halligan-hearing-comey-james-11-13-25




Rose Mary Woods attempting to demonstrate how she may have inadvertently created the gap





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FakeNoose

(39,590 posts)
1. The court reporter left before the grand jury was done, and they finished the hearing without transcripts
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:28 PM
Nov 13
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20802792

So basically the hearing is null and void, because Halligan didn't know any better.

Deuxcents

(24,873 posts)
2. Didn't she try to admit information to the court from those lapsed minutes and the judge caught it?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:35 PM
Nov 13

And the Defense caught it, I think, so she tried to pull a fast one?

bigtree

(93,257 posts)
5. that's the hook
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:43 PM
Nov 13

...is it really about this idiot subterfuge?

That would be an amazing scandal.

Genius Trump Attorney Submitted Wrong Comey Indictment Docs to Judge

The grand jury on Thursday voted to indict Comey on two of three counts sought by Halligan—false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding.

Halligan failed to convince 12 jurors to vote for another false statements charge, related to Comey’s answers to Senator Lindsey Graham during a September 2020 hearing. (Comey had replied, “That doesn’t ring any bells with me,” when asked by Graham if officials informed the FBI that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign “was going to create a scandal regarding Trump and Russia” to distract from her email scandal.)

After the jury rejected that charge, prosecutors presented U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala with an indictment with just the two others. But, as The Washington Post reports, Halligan accidentally “gave the judge both indictments Thursday evening, prompting confusion.”

“This has never happened before. I’ve been handed two documents ... with a discrepancy,” Vaala said. “I’m a little confused why I was handed two things ... that were inconsistent.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/200983/trump-comey-indictment-rocky-start-lindsey-halligan-doj

FakeNoose

(39,590 posts)
7. Please read what DUer JerseyDevil posted in the other thread...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:45 PM
Nov 13
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20802863

2) Currie said there was no way that Attorney General Pam Bondi could have reviewed the grand jury proceedings in the Comey case as she claimed to have done before she took the unusual step of purporting to ratify Halligan’s appointment after the fact in a document she signed on Oct. 31 but made retroactive to Sept. 22. That’s because the grand jury transcripts and recordings were incomplete.

(3) Currie said that the beginning and ending of Halligan’s presentation of the Comey indictment were not recorded and that for a stretch the court reporter was either absent from the room or not recording at all. It’s embarrassing and undermines the subtext of the Trump administration’s argument that the cases were handled perfectly routinely … even though Halligan is an insurance lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor who was hastily appointed by her former client Trump to beat the statute of limitations clock, which was about to strike midnight in the Comey case. In short, the new revelations further highlighted how nothing about either case is normal.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pam-bondi-lindsey-halligan-appointment-james-comey-letitia-james


The Grand Jury hearing ran overtime and the court reporter had to leave to pick up her kids. There was nobody to record the proceedings. And yet Lisa Halligan submitted it anyway and Pam Bondi said she reviewed and approved the court transcripts. (She obviously lied.)

RockRaven

(18,464 posts)
3. The Dotard's regime is the exception to that maxim about assuming incompetence over malice.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 08:35 PM
Nov 13

With him and his goons, assume malice and the incompetence is an optional add-on. That is the pattern they have established.

Marie Marie

(10,750 posts)
9. Halligan (and Bondi) pulling nefarious shit?
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:41 PM
Nov 13

No way. Trump would never allow it. He is a letter of the law kinda guy - that's just the way he rolls.

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