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Alina Habba has developed quite the reputation.Facing high-stakes investigations that could cripple his business empire or even mean jail time for him and close associates, former President Donald Trump and his familys armada of lawyers are facing a threat from within.
Her name is Alina Habba, andalmost out of nowherethe relatively unknown New Jersey lawyer went from representing a college student ticked off at COVID-19 virtual learning to being one of the top attorneys defending the twice-impeached former president in some of the countrys most high-profile cases.
Theres just one problem for Habba: Theres hardly anyone in the Trump legal universe who can stand her.
Many of Habbas fellow senior Trumpland attorneysincluding but not limited to Alan Gartenhave all privately vented that she has botched things or doesnt know what shes doing, according to Trumpworld legal sources intimately familiar with the topic. Some of them want her fired or sidelined.
Some of the Trump lawyers think her work is so badso self-interested, pointlessly aggressive, and sloppythat they think Habbas mere presence on the team increases the likelihood of Trump and his family facing court losses and legal peril.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alina-habba-the-trump-lawyer-the-rest-of-trumps-legal-team-loathes
Hmmmm. Wonder what convinced Trump to hire her.
Phoenix61
(17,023 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I support the (bad) work that Ms. Habba is doing.
Keep up the bad work!
zuul
(14,628 posts)She is a perfect fit.
kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)And TFG loves having good looking people around him.
3Hotdogs
(12,456 posts)rpannier
(24,350 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)HariSeldon
(458 posts)Trump is looking for an "inadequate legal representation" appeal if he loses on the merits. Such an appeal will stretch things out, even if he won't win it.
wnylib
(21,731 posts)dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)captain queeg
(10,281 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,800 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)SKKY
(11,833 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Since the whiney Republican draft-dodging hustler TFG thinks so little of the current Ms. Cancun Cruz, maybe The Cruzster could re-ingratiate himself by dumping her and getting Cancun Cozy with Habba Babba, excuse me, I mean Alina Habba.
Republicans. Sheesh.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)she has risen though the ranks of Republican lawyers, even though incompetent, to become No. 1 in tin service to the Top-Republican-Casino Hustler?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)She should be Co-Kraken.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,825 posts). . .or another bracket game?
MAGA Madness had Rudy up against Mo Brooks.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)magicarpet
(14,202 posts)Jared's cousin's mother-in-law's sister's boyfriend's next door neighbor's niece ?
Sounds like a solid connection to me.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,800 posts)This lady is a very bad attorney and really made a fool of herself
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NPR host Peter Sagal weighed in, saying: "I'm not a lawyer, but based on her rant in a virtual courtroom just now, I'm not sure Donald Trump's attorney Alina [Habba] is either."
"Among other things," Sagal adds, "she's speaking to the Judge as if he's an opponent on a cable news panel, which strikes me as not wise? Also, the [clerk] keeps having to tell her to stop talking over the judge."
Habba also told the judge AG James is engaged in "selective prosecution," as Law & Crime News managing editor Adam Klasfeld reports.
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LiberalFighter
(51,263 posts)Is not a valid reason to appeal when no effort is made to fire the attorney.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,800 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,445 posts)thenelm1
(856 posts)is trying set up a scapegoat for the whole team's incompetence.
wnylib
(21,731 posts)They won't get paid. Trump is a loser and a has-been president. He has no respect in professional circles.
So what would any lawyer expect to get from being on the Trump team?
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Go look and see what conclusion you draw, I am not spoiling the fun!