The One Trump Lawyer the Rest of Trump's Legal Team Loathes

[Zorro]

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 family’s armada of lawyers are facing a threat from within.

Her name is Alina Habba, and—almost out of nowhere—the 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 country’s most high-profile cases.

There’s just one problem for Habba: There’s hardly anyone in the Trump legal universe who can stand her.

Many of Habba’s fellow senior Trumpland attorneys—including but not limited to Alan Garten—have all privately vented that she has botched things or doesn’t know what she’s 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 bad—so self-interested, pointlessly aggressive, and sloppy—that they think Habba’s 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]

1. Sounds like they deserve each other. nt

[SoonerPride]

2. "I only hire the best!"

I support the (bad) work that Ms. Habba is doing.

Keep up the bad work!

[zuul]

3. "She has botched things or doesn't know what she's doing"

She is a perfect fit.

[kimbutgar]

4. It's because she is easy on the eyes

And TFG loves having good looking people around him.

[3Hotdogs]

24. Are you trying to incinerate something about Trump's motive for hiring her?

[rpannier]

32. Trump has told us he olnly hires the best people

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I have no opinion on her but have noticed that the rest of his legal team hasn't been doing so well.

[HariSeldon]

6. It's a gambit for appeal

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]

25. Probably right.

[dixiechiken1]

7. Please proceed...

[captain queeg]

8. But does she work for free?

[Whiskeytide]

13. I think they all do. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. TFG does not pay his attorneys

[Whiskeytide]

30. Exactly. n/t.

[SKKY]

9. Shhhh. When you adversary is making a mistake, don't interrupt them.

[Achilleaze]

10. She sounds like she'd be a good match for Cancun Cruz

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]

21. Is it me? She looks like a young Melania.

[Achilleaze]

31. Ahhhaaa- that could that be the reason

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]

11. I am recommending her for a promotion.

She should be Co-Kraken.

[Hekate]

12. Nice!

[rurallib]

14. Crap, bracket busted again. I had Giuliani.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. You mean the "MAGA Madness" game by the Lincoln Project?

. . .or another bracket game?

MAGA Madness had Rudy up against Mo Brooks.

[rurallib]

19. never heard of it - will check it out

[magicarpet]

15. Might she be,..

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]

17. trouble in trump dick-wad land ! public defender's need traning too ?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. TFG cannot get a first or second tier lawyer or firm to represent him.

This lady is a very bad attorney and really made a fool of herself

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"I want to know," Habba, in court, asked the NY Attorney General, "are you gonna go after Hillary Clinton for what she's doing to my client?....

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]

20. I'm not a lawyer but I would argue how your attorney handles your case

Is not a valid reason to appeal when no effort is made to fire the attorney.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. This idiot wrote a really dumb letter to the Pulitzer Prize board that was so bad that it was sad

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[bucolic_frolic]

26. "doesn't know what she's doing" means fully qualified in TDFG world

[thenelm1]

27. Looks like the TFG legal team, i.e., the gang that couldn't shoot straight,

is trying set up a scapegoat for the whole team's incompetence.

[wnylib]

28. Why would any attorney take a Trump case?

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]

29. Quick image search turned up easy answer to why he hired her.

Go look and see what conclusion you draw, I am not spoiling the fun!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. This idiot is one of the plaintiffs in TFG's lawsuit v. Clinton et al

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