Nicolle Wallace ripped into Trump-picked interim US Lawyer Lindsey Halligan after the latter engaged in a dialog concerning the Letitia James indictment with a authorized reporter — and allegedly shared grand jury data within the course of.
The political commentator addressed the controversy on Tuesday’s episode of “Deadline: White Home,” the place she known as Halligan’s determination to participate in a 33-hour, on-the-record dialog with authorized reporter Anna Bower over Sign not simply “weird,” however silly.
“I don’t know whether or not to cope with the authorized points or the stupidity first,” Wallace stated to her visitors, Michael Schmidt, a New York Instances investigative reporter, and Andrew Weissmann, a former prime prosecutor on the Justice Division. “However, the stupidity is simply unbelievable right here.”
She added: “Now, you may, I suppose, legitimately not perceive that texting a journalist not about her personal reporting, however her summaries [of] another person’s reporting is one thing — for those who don’t need to see [it] in print, ask the circumstances. However, to share grand jury data, to me, looks like one thing that even on this weird, Earth 2 world, may get Lindsey Halligan known as into the principal’s workplace.”
Wallace’s criticism got here after Bower, a Lawfare senior editor, detailed her change with Halligan — who initiated the dialog after Bower posted on X about The New York Instances’ reporting of James’ latest indictment for mortgage fraud. Within the multi-day back-and-forth, Bower famous Halligan’s messages “contained language that touched on grand jury issues, whilst she insisted that she couldn’t reveal such data.”
Halligan reportedly then tried to inform Bower that “all the things I ever despatched to you is off report,” however had to be told that this could’t be requested in “retrospect.”
Watch the total commentary above.
“Deadline: White Home” airs weekdays at 4 p.m. ET on MSNBC.
