Trump Lawyer Spotted At Victory Party After Delaying Trial Due To Illness
The former president’s legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later.
Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, was spotted rubbing elbows with Republicans in New Hampshire on Tuesday, just the day after asking for a delay in the ex-president’s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.
On Monday, one of the nine jurors considering writer E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation suit against Trump was excused for being ill.
Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trump’s legal team requested a delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She was not wearing a mask during the hearing.
The next day, however, Habba was sighted celebrating Trump’s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC News’ Garrett Haake.
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And what will the consequences be? Nothing.
Let's hope for the best case scenario: she actually did have covid and spread the virus to other totalitarian ghouls
This isn't 2021 or even 2020. Catching covid right now is no longer a big deal, especially that you have access to the best doctors.
COVID is still a big deal. People are still getting sick and dying. In the US, it's still claiming about 1,500 lives weekly.
Long COVID significantly affects the quality of life for many.
The best doctor can only advocate for the best treatment. Your continued good health is dependent on your vigilance.
As a person with long covid, people like you can go fuck yourselves
As? I agree.
Thanks for the heads up. Didn't get it at first because fucking brain fog.
If we were talking about the normal populace, sure. But we're taking about an aged and under-vaccinated group.
Please, Republican politicians are all vaccinated. They just pushed that shit to please the plebs
Who believe horse dewormer is a cure
As opposed to people who prefer cancer drugs?
That's about an equally flippant, equally bullshit response. Ivermectin isn't just "horse dewormer", it's a pretty broad and widely used anti-parasitic, which when it was discovered in the 70s was referred to as a "wonder drug from Japan" because it works in a wide variety of mammal species (including humans, often being used to treat scabies or intestinal worms) against a wide variety of parasites.
Right wing idiots spread the idea that an anti-parasitic is an appropriate treatment for a viral infection, but that doesn't change that you should respect the fucking drug and all the good it has done in the last half century.
Settle down Beavis. Pretty sure he was mocking the people, not the drug itself
Context: you’re reading a thread about Covid. Ivermectin is not a cure for Covid. Nothing else you said is relevant.
They probably had bowls of Paxlovid sitting where dinner mints would be.
That would be rough, that shit makes everything taste like metal. Better than suffering though without it I suppose.
They would if they think he'll win.
Probably some hoping to gain fame by a big case. The Kardashians only became popular because of the OJ trial.
Seems like contempt and a large fine would be in order... Which has already happened to Trump lawyers in recent history
We need to start making sure this happens. If she is not charged with contempt the judge should be disbarred/removed.
Which lawyers got a "large" fine recently?
Good ole Alina herself. https://apnews.com/article/politics-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-florida-new-york-872898a17b2f55a4d1235f978633d2df
Maybe, but just maybe she kills a bunch of Republicans with COVID. A net positive for society if that happened.
Is she trying to fast track disbarment? Lying to the court is an excellent way to, at a minimum, receive a suspension.
She's counting on getting disbarred, it's a key part of getting her next gig as a legal analyst on Fox. All she has to do is bleach her hair and the job is hers.
Don’t forget the required Karen hair cut.
Karen kut!
Kewl Karen Kut
Yep. Was thinking punditry which would really suggest Dark Triad pd.
I don't doubt that she has COVID. Remember back in 2020 when folks got together for holidays despite being exposed?
Yep, one of the folks at my job (a lifelong smoker I might add) attended a Halloween party in 2020, caught covid, and died.
She's gonna get a warning from the judge at most.
Consequences? Boy I wish
Could she argue that she had obligation to keep COVID away from the court, but not this right wing party?
I guess lying is part of 'acting smart'.
Technically, I think she said she could fake being smart.
I think she's got the faking part down. Still waiting to hear from the jury about the smart part.
Yes, she really is this stupid.
Maybe she can't fake being smart.
She's so bad at faking smartness that she can barely be dumb.
Evil, that evil.
It’s just mind boggling, someone who went to school for at least six years and passed the bar could actually be that dumb. Arrogance that suggests Dark Triad?
As they say- do you know what they call the person who comes last in medical school? Doctor.
Still, the bar exam is no easy peasy task! Unless they bribed the proctor, which is also possible but I’m trying not to go full tinfoil hat!
It’s one thing to be “smart” enough to memorize answers to a test. Hell, I’m damn good at it myself. But it’s another thing to have common sense and good judgement. Obviously this lawyer is a prime example of being one and not the other.
Yup, my high school valedictorian was the dumbest person I've ever met. But she could regurgitate information on a test without understanding it.
I never thought I was smart or dumb, just like a really, really good test taker. I didn't retain close to what I should have from my university years.
Same. Pretty much I retain information just long enough for it to be useful, then I forget it as soon as I start learning/doing something else.
You can not memorize the bar exam.
How else do you explain being able to pass any exam, bar or not, if you do not memorize answers? Granted, I'm not suggesting that anybody knows the exact questions on any exam, but rather that you study material that gives you the answers to whatever questions may be asked.
I'm guessing it's easier in some states than others and I'm also guessing she chose an easy state.
I retract you can not memorize a bad exam. Thinking of Miriam Bialik’s photographic memory. Agree some states have low bar exams🤣.
And that is the difference between ‘knowledge’ and ‘wisdom’.
Holy contempt of court batman! that lawyer's gonna habba bad time.
I keep thinking, this is where the judge throws someone in jail for contempt of court. Right?
Which I believe Trump is banking on when hiring bad lawyers. To his base it looks like he's being treated poorly, which will make the base more militant. That way Trump can get the SCOTUS stormed if he's about to be convicted in the January 6 trial.
Since Trump has a reputation for not paying his legal representation, and money is what lawyers crave, I'm sure Trump could get decent lawyers by paying up front.
Not even. He also tends not to listen to their advice and undermines his own case by blathering in public. He's not worth the headaches.
.. and force a mistrial?
Finding a lawyer in contempt of court does not force a mistrial.
The plan is now to delay delay delay so Trump can enter the election. Then when he wins he’ll just pardon himself and be like, “What are you talking about? Remember when I said Biden could do it?”
This is both a civil suit and a state case. Trump would have no pardon power here. Habba is just stupid.
I keep seeing people say this, and factually/logically it's true. But according to The Constitution, trump is disqualified from even holding the office. If he gets elected, he's already talked of suspending The Constitution, political revenge, mass firings of civil service positions unless swearing fealty to him, and being a short term dictator. It feels strange and needlessly bombastic to say this, but there is a chance it'll be game over.
If you can explain how Trump can pardon himself from a state civil trial, go for it. Because the much simpler explanation is that Habba is an idiot.
Well, as I thought I said, if you can say explain how an insurrectionist can be elected, I'll say how state courts don't mean shit. Honestly though, I think it's all academic. trump lost the popular vote by 3 million the first time, and 7 million the second. I can not see him doing any better this time around. Then again, that first win did surprise me, so fuck, who knows? Might be a little harder to launch a coup from the outside. Or maybe he'll be in jail. Haha, right.
Edit: And yeah, whatever happens, Habba is indeed an idiot.
The Constitution provides no explanation for who makes that determination under the 14th amendment and under what standards they are to do so. And that is going to be the core of any legal fight over his candidacy - who determines eligibility under 14A and under what standard. Trump and his lawyers will almost certainly aim for the answer being either Congress or a criminal trial, while most on this sub hope that any state judge of SoS should be able to disqualify him nationally on their opinion alone.
The authors of the 14th probably didn't think it was necessary, since they could just go "see that group over there engaged in open rebellion? we mean the people publicly in charge of that", but that's...fuzzier with the J6 stuff. It's not like Trump publicly led the attack on the Capitol, he's too much of a spineless wimp for that.
Furthermore, I am not sure that I really want random State judges determining what counts as insurrection. We already have Greg Abbott claiming that Texas is being actively invaded and the Federal Government is doing nothing about it. If Trump is thrown off the ballot because of the 14th Amendment, I have no doubt that some Texas judge will proclaim Biden as the leader of the Invasion of Texas and throw him off rhe ballot as well....
.... which might be the outcome all of us Lemmings have wanted all along, but not quite like this.
I could pontificate on the other side, but I think this The Atlantic article does a much better job of explaining the 14th Amendment.
Ah. I still think that’s the plan though. I guess we’ll see.
I don't see how it would achieve anything in this case.
If he got elected and the trial wasn’t over, wouldn’t they try to argue that it all has to be put on hold while he’s president?
They could try, but it's up to the judge's discretion and the judge doesn't sound like they'll play ball on that one.
Me neither, but it’s not about what you or I thinks
It's specifically about what you said you think the plan is
I think we lost track of which it we were talking about
If he were to be elected, would there still be an avenue to disqualify before taking on the oath? He would be the president-elect, not the president, until sworn in.
Huh… so would Biden stay president until the court cases are dealt with? How’s that work?
Probably got to the VP-elect, Carrot Top.
Nope, it goes to the Speaker of the House, but more likely the Supreme Court would just pull a 2000 and assign the presidency.
Wait. Really? So say Biden/Harris are Pres/VP. trump/CarrotTop are pres/vp-elect. trump gets disqualified before the inauguration, so when the inauguration comes around, Biden/Harris are out because they lost, and trump has been disqualified, so it goes to the Speaker? Why is CarrotTop disqualified?
They really didn't do that though. They essentially decided two things:
A state counting some ballots under different rules than other ballots violates equal protection.
Election deadlines are legal and enforceable.
Gore wanted to recount a handful of places under a different standard than the rest of the state (basically changing how to handle undervotes, overvotes, that sort of thing) after the previous count and recount under the state standard did not give him a win, starting this recount just a couple of days before the deadline. Bush asked for an injunction and for SCOTUS to sort it out, and SCOTUS heard the case and issued a judgement in frankly record time, but that still meant their opinion was issued 2 hours before the deadline.
Those looking into the Florida 2000 election after the fact actually came to the conclusion that the last recount Gore called for wouldn't have caused him to win if completed, but an estimate by one org suggests that had it been a statewide recount under the standard Gore wanted to use that that would have tipped things in Gore's favor but that's not a count that had ever been put on the table.
I'm not sure. This whole ordeal is pretty much uncharted, so any searches come up with him and not really anything else.
I do however think I remember there being something that could make the presidency be pushed to the runner up if something isn't followed. It was from high school, so my memory is a bit foggy.
Give her a month behind bars for contempt, but have her serve it after the trial.
I am waiting for the day when she starts her Onlyfans to sell #MAGA merch.
Edit: I am kinda into her. Got a thing for lawyers
That's what ball-gags and arm-cuffs are good for, I hear.
OMG I find melania really hot as long as she keeps her mouth shut. I cant stand that European accent.
I understand, I'd nibble the corn out of her turds.
ಠ_ಠ
That's a new depth to "Don't yuck someone else's yum."
Sometimes you can find a peanut.
Disbar immediately. Let him pay for a real lawyer or qualify as indigent if he claims he can’t afford it.
I had to laugh about that story of one the magascum getting booted from the Little d event for posting pics of her....I guess the leopards ate his face.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/disgusting-ex-trump-staffer-and-j6-figure-lashes-out-over-being-dragged-out-of-trump-party-after-alina-habba-pic/ar-BB1hfqZr