“Glaringly obvious” incompetence on display as judge tells jury to “disregard everything Ms. Habba just said”
Trump lawyer Alina Habba struggled through her cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the defamation case against the former president, repeatedly admonished the attorney for running afoul of his court rules and general procedures.
Prior to Carroll’s testimony, Habba requested an adjournment so that Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.
“The application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it. None. Do you understand that word? None. Please sit down,” Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, told Habba about the motion that he already denied.
Kaplan repeatedly interrupted Habba’s questions, including when she began to read from a document that had not been formally entered into evidence, sending the trial to a recess.
I’m so tired of this two-tiered justice system. Just once, for fuck’s sake, treat this sack of shit like you would a black teenager caught with weed in Texas.
Summary execution then?
Just give him an Airsoft rifle to play with and let nature take its course.
Or swap his orange makeup for a darker shade and hand him some skittles in Florida.
Ho-lee-fuck…8 years in mostly solitary and then released without a trial!!!
This case is just like the New York one. The matter of guilt is already settled, only the award remains.
The real lawyers will work on the real case, witch is the appeal. Habba’s job is to make headlines, keep Trump in the news, and fight every inch no matter how useless. Just because her behavior makes her a bad lawyer, doesn’t mean she’s not serving her client, or that she’s dumb. Habba’s legal work probably amounts to tens of millions of dollars in free prime time advertising for Trump’s reelection.
Trump’s strategy is to be in the news everyday. So many scandals that only Rachael Maddow can keep it all straight. Is it a good strategy? It worked in 2016.
Make no mistake, her job is incredibly simple: stall and waste as much of the court’s time as possible and give Trump potential mistrial grounds.
When I read about her glaringly obvious mistakes (according to an article regarding admitting evidence,stating positions on things where the judge said she’d turn into a witness if her statement was true) that was the first thing that came to mind, she’s there to make it last longer, and doesn’t seem like the courts have a way to handle it well without a new trial so it goes slowly. Trump is like a full blown security test on US political and legal systems and they aren’t performing well to his strategies.
Just because her behavior makes her a bad lawyer, doesn’t mean she’s not serving her client, or that she’s dumb.
Doesn’t she risk being debarred?
I don’t know her plans, but it wouldn’t matter to me if I made bank off this one clown show of a trial. Dress me up! 🤡
Just because her behavior makes her a bad lawyer, doesn’t mean she’s not serving her client, or that she’s dumb.
¿Por qué no los dos?
She does serve Trump. She is undoubtedly following not just his specific orders but his ongoing strategy of obstruction, confusion, dogwhistling and chaos-sowing wherever she can.
But she’s ALSO intensely short-sighted in that Trump will not protect her from the consequences of the choices she makes on his behalf. If she gets censured, loses her license, or ends up getting charged with crimes herself, he will simply drop her. Nor does she seem to be casting a lot of concern toward her post-Trump career options, either. All of that is stupid as hell, IMO.
But what’s dumbest of all is the likelihood that she is simply getting paid in promises, agreeing to postpone some portion or all of her pay, with all the blind hubris that makes her believe she will be different from all the other attorneys and partners and contractors and workers he’s stiffed throughout the decades. If that’s true, it will certainly keep her a Trump favorite, until he stiffs and discards her just like all the rest. Kise got his $3M upfront; does anyone here think she did the same? I don’t, lol.
I don’t think it’s a “strategy” as much as “the only thing he knows”. Remember, this guy has only made money in real estate. Everything else flopped. He has the strategy of a real estate salesman who tells you unverifiable things like “George Washington had dinner here” and “it will double in value”.
It’s going to backfire now because it gets boring. Why do you think everyone in NYC hates him?
when Rachael Maddow retires, it will be the end of an era. She is so good.
Yeah, but she’s very pretty. Did she tell you that she’s pretty?
“I can fake being smart."
Please start at any time.
Donald Trump’s attorney wants the public to know her good looks are more important than her intelligence, because she can “fake being smart.”
What a horrible world we live in, if someone feels the need to live like that.
I don’t know if that’s just an unflattering picture, but she… just no. Her head is so small she looks like she has microencephalitis from that angle. But granting that it’s probably just an unfortunate camera angle, she is still looking very mid. I wouldn’t look twice at her.
Yeah, but she’s very pretty.
And she has that Asus RoG laptop.
I have an ASUS ROG laptop. Are you saying I’m not pretty 😥
No, you’re Rico Suave, you’re handsome 😉
😅😂🤣
“Oh no, they’re not taking me seriously!”
Cashes 2.5 million dollar check
“Anyways…”
With a performance like that, I’m not entirely convinced she was smart enough to get her payments upfront. We all know the famous low Valerian saying - “A Trump never pays his debts”
I actually undershot, since the 2.5 must’ve been just from one PAC.
3.5: https://www.newsweek.com/alina-habbas-firm-has-been-paid-over-35m-defend-trump-1862002
Where did the check come from?
Trump’s PACs, in turn funded by a bunch of people who are being told how they’re funding his “campaign”.
He can’t be found guilty and have it stick. He can blame his defense and ask for a retrial. Later. Almost immediately after the delayed verdict, but you know… later.
This isn’t about being found guilty though, right? This is about determining damages. He might appeal how much he needs to pay, but he’s already been found civilly liable.
Kaplan repeatedly interrupted Habba’s questions, including when she began to read from a document that had not been formally entered into evidence, sending the trial to a recess.
“During which you should refresh your memory about how it is you get a document into evidence," Kaplan told the lawyer.
God damn.
Habba
What is she doing? Doesn’t she have a racist hotel pool to run or something?
Pool’s closed due to AIDS, unfortunately.
Ha! I thought maybe I was reaching too far back 😂
I wouldn’t even be surprised if Republicans try to vote for Trump even as he sits behind bars.
Can presidents pardon themselves to be released from prison?
It’s not clear, but if they can it’s only for federal crimes. No state conviction can be overturned by the president.
Correct, however, federal court supercedes state decisions.
He’d still be effectively, untouchable. The system wasn’t designed to be abused and tested like this unfortunately.
I don’t think so. There’s nothing at the federal level that can override a state level conviction. In Georgia, not even the governor can pardon prisoners, that has to go before a board, and only after 5 years has been served.
I don’t have that much faith that one in twelve New Yorkers isn’t a MAGA moron.
Totally imagine this happening in the courtroom. https://youtu.be/gYzfTHO9tkY?si=4ePcDXWSah5mH-6D
This doesn’t sound like a legal expert, this sounds like gossip and I’m angry to have accidentally read it
I read every bit of the transcript of Habba’s attempts at cross yesterday, and what was described in the article was accurate. It was actually less embarrassing for her than the actual transcripts.
The rest were opinions from other lawyers and experts as to how things went yesterday. It’s pretty common to cite the opinion of experts in order to give context about a subject that the layperson may not be familiar with.
Perhaps you are confusing gossip with opinion? Not sure how one could make that mistake accidentally, bit you never know.
This sounds like gossip because it doesn’t matter legally. And the opinions of experts on whether a jury “likes” a lawyer is similarly a thing, that if i were an expert, i would hesitate to comment on. Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps this “article” deserves the airquotes i just hope you visualized me making
Perhaps you just need to learn what gossip is.
