āGlaringly obviousā incompetence on display as judge tells jury to ādisregard everything Ms. Habba just saidā
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 Carrollās testimony, Habba requested an adjournment so that Trump could attend his mother-in-lawās funeral.
āThe application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it. None. Do you understand that word? None. Please sit down,ā Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, told Habba about the motion that he already denied.
Kaplan repeatedly interrupted Habbaās questions, including when she began to read from a document that had not been formally entered into evidence, sending the trial to a recess.
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. Habbaās 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, doesnāt mean sheās not serving her client, or that sheās dumb. Habbaās legal work probably amounts to tens of millions of dollars in free prime time advertising for Trumpās reelection.
Trumpās 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 courtās 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 sheād turn into a witness if her statement was true) that was the first thing that came to mind, sheās there to make it last longer, and doesnāt 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 arenāt performing well to his strategies.
Doesnāt she risk being debarred?
I donāt know her plans, but it wouldnāt matter to me if I made bank off this one clown show of a trial. Dress me up! š¤”
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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 sheās 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 whatās 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 heās stiffed throughout the decades. If thatās 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 donāt, lol.
I donāt think itās a āstrategyā as much as āthe only thing he knowsā. 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 āGeorge Washington had dinner hereā and āit will double in valueā.
Itās 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.