Reporter Anna Bower Unpacks Explosive DOJ Messages

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When an inexperienced, newly appointed top prosecutor leading Trump’s vindictive prosecution plan against his political critics, slips into the direct messages of a reporter to chat about the prosecution of NY AG Tish James, you have the makings of a bombshell new investigative report by Anna Bower of LawFare. Anna joins Michael Popok to brief our audience on the series of messages, likely not approved by the DOJ, to Anna, which form the basis of her new eye-popping article “Anna, this is Lindsey” and what it says about the DOJ (who called Anna a “tattle tale” (?!?)) and Pam Bondi’s slip on the grip of power. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Welcome to a special edition of Legal A.F on the Midas Touch Network. Yesterday, there were a couple of
0:36.4	major events involving Lindsay Halligan. One, we had
0:39.9	the Comey side, James Comey and his lawyers, filing motions to disqualify Lindsay Halligan,
0:46.6	not because she's obscenely unqualified, but because she was illegally appointed. But later that
0:52.7	afternoon into the evening, we got a new bombshell
0:55.3	report coming out of lawfare and reporting by Anna Bauer. The title, Anna, Lindsay Halligan here.
1:02.8	I almost started this interview with Anna, Michael Popak here. And off we go in a series of text messages
1:10.5	that were sent to the reporter Anna Bauer from Lindsey Halligan about Letitia James's prosecution.
1:20.1	It looked like she had been triggered by a couple of postings that Anna had made from some New York Times reporting on the 11th of October, and we're off and running.
1:30.0	And then a story got created, not one necessarily that Anna Bauer was looking for, but one that
1:35.3	came to her through the text messages, ones that the Department of Justice is now scrambling to fix
1:41.7	by saying that everything was off the record when it couldn't possibly have
1:46.1	been since that wasn't asserted until nine days after the text chain started. Let's bring in
1:51.4	the intrepid reporter, Anna Bauer. Anna, how are you? I'm good. It's been a, it's been a weird week
1:58.9	or a weird nine days, but I appreciate you having me here. I'm good.
2:05.3	Absolutely. There were many, many things about your reporting. And we'll put a link to it down in the notes on Lawfare yesterday. And we'll read from some of the texts that They're just eye-poppingly fascinating about what
2:18.9	Lindsay Halligan thought she was doing. And I want to ask you what she thought she thought she
2:22.8	was doing. But so you've done reporting about everything related to Donald Trump and
2:29.0	prosecutions and the vindictive prosecutions that are now going on. And Lindsay Halligan, it looks like you guys met apparently at the Breaker's Hotel with Jim
2:39.4	trustee when she was on the Mar-a-Lago case, right?
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