Trump replacing lawyer because she "doesn't know what she's doing": "She is a loser"

Discussion on Jake Tapper's show...

I hope she got paid in advance.

Who is going to replace her? Giuliani?

[quote] Who is going to replace her? Giuliani?

Trump is scouring law school graduates, as we speak.

But he hires all the best people!

Is it worth it in the long run for these lawyers to defend him and likely lose. And then be publicly scolded and criticized by Donnie and his team? Seems like a bottom of the barrel applicant pool.

Awww, it's sad when morons fire morons after going through a moronic trial.

I think it is very common to get new counsel to represent you in the appeal.

Especially when you're a complete jackass and your lawyer is a fucking joke and the whole thing is a complete mess r8. It's traditional.

Dumb cunt.

She claims she is still working for Donald by interviewing new attorneys for the appeal. Why would he ever trust her with this when her judgement is terrible???

Hopefully she goes away soon. Once the Engoron ruling comes out she will be fired.

Of course it doesn't matter r11. He sucks in every possible way. Whoever is the designated lawyer will answer to all his moronic whims and stupid fucking ideas. It completely doesn't matter, because he will always be the problem in any Trump case.

That said, Alina really did add her own particular suck to the whole formula.

SHE'S A RINO THAT DELIBERATELY TANKED THE CASE! SHE WORKS FOR KILLARY AND THE DEEP STATE!!!!

Where is Roy Cohn when you need him?!!!

Hilarious! I was waiting for this to happen. Dump won't be paying her either and we all know what will happen.

Dump will stiff her for her fees and bad mouth her. She will eventually retaliate by releasing screeds of private messages, conversations and air his dirty laundry. It happens with these people and Dump every single time.

Leopards. Faces.

Leopards. Spots.

She was paid $2.5M up front, so at least she's not rock bottom stupid. I have a very hard time imaging any halfway effective lawyer with appeal experience who would take on his case. Is there any upside to taking him on as a client?

[QUOTE]Honig went on to argue that Habba "can't even do things that you learn in evidence class" like move exhibits into evidence and uphold the rules of hearsay, citing the court transcript.

This is what mystified me about her. I have a powerful aversion to public humiliation. If I were in her shoes, I'd be boning up on evidentiary rules and and procedures once learned in law school and forgotten. It's not hard stuff and she didn't make the effort after the judge's first smack down. A reasonably intelligent college grad could probably have done a better job with a period preparation. All of this begs the question: How did she pass the NY bar exam, reportedly the toughest in the nation?

She deserves everything she gets for associating with Donald Cuntface.

What lawyer works with Trump without getting paid in advance generously?

[quote] Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch

Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch.

Kaplan, who has represented clients in high-profile cases against Trump, including E. Jean Carroll, said on an episode of the “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)” podcast recorded Thursday that she rejected the former president’s request that they work through a lunch break because he believed the deposition was “a waste of my time.”

“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain. You could really almost see it,” Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. “And he said, ‘Well, you’re here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you’re going to do for lunch? Where are you going to get lunch?’”

Kaplan said she told him that his attorneys had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch — a common civil practice between opposing legal teams.

“At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch.

“He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina,” she said.

Kaplan continued: “He came back in and he said, ‘Well, how’d you like the lunch?’ And I said, ‘Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I’m taking testimony.’ And he said, ‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”

Kaplan was deposing Trump at Mar-Lago in a lawsuit alleging the former president was involved with a fraudulent marketing company. A federal judge dismissed the suit last month.

In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.

“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.

Kaplan said that she was initially confused, as their next meeting was set for a Wednesday. “You could tell it was like, it was like a kind of a joke again, like teenage boys would come up with. But again, I wasn’t in on the joke,” she said.

“I wasn’t in on the joke, so I had no idea. Then we get into the car and my colleagues are like, ‘Robbie, do you know what that means?’ And I’m like, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ They tell me and I’m like, oh my God, thank God I didn’t know because had I known, I for sure would have gotten angry. There’s no question I would have gotten angry,” Kaplan said.

CNN has reached out to representatives for Trump and Habba.

[quote]Is there any upside to taking him on as a client?

Publicity. That's it.

Unless the smell of make-up and dirty diapers turns you on.

Elie Konig is so hot.

It's Elie Honig.

Not Konig.

Isn’t Alina Habba who all the MAGAts are telling their daughters to grow up to be like as opposed to Taylor Swift?

Yes, R25.

But not any more, now that she's on DUMP's shit list.

Awkward

r21, He called her a cunt and told the cook to make her a bad sandwich. He's like a cartoon villain.

[quote] How did she pass the NY bar exam, reportedly the toughest in the nation?

New York uses the Universal Bar Exam, the exact same exam used by 37 other states, so it's no harder than, say, Alabama. Plus its's mostly multiple choice.

Haba conducted herself like Lucy Ricardo trying to convince Ricky to let her represent him in traffic court, and in doing so, she gave Dump a plausible target to blame for his latest failure: His lawyer's pathetic performance.... at least an acceptable explanation his rage addicted, mentally limited fan base could accept: Legal malpractice.

Hope she really did get the 2.5, because FOX News isn't going to put the dumb bitch on television only to remind its reality challenged audience that Dump lost big. It was a total set up designed to deflect responsivity for his obvious guilt onto Haba's inept performance and she walked into it mouth open. No sane/competent lawyer would have behaved like she did under the same circumstances. No sane/competent lawyer would represent this pustule.

Wasn't she probably hired because she met Trump's physical requirements—attractive, young, thin, long flowing hair, fuckable—a bit like Melania?

“See you next Tuesday”

I’ve never heard that expression. What’s inference is supposed to be drawn?

What inference^

Are you kidding, r32?

See you next Tuesday : c u n t.

Charming.

She worked for Trump before the original E. Jean trial, but I don't know what legal work she did then. She was first noticed as part of Trump's entourage and was noted as a Melania type, especially after the picture of her sitting in Trump's plane wearing a white pantsuit as he stood over her.

A competent attorney knows it's a losing cause. There is absolutely no upside for any reputable and competent attorney to take his case.

So, he's left with the incompetent ones and the ones who are desperate to make a name for themselves, but have no real interest in him that they'd be willing to put up with him.

It amuses me.

No, r34.

Thank you, r35.

I’m almost sorry I now know that. Up to this moment, I’ve lived in blissful ignorance of such an expression.

And yes, as a longtime DLer, I know that word’s ubiquity here, but, I’ve trained my eye to reflexively avoid it.

Cheatolini picked her for her looks and now he is somehow surprised that this parking garage lawyer is incompetent?

He’s a POS and so is his judgment.

He had fired her before this second trial. Why the fuck did he rehire her for it?

It's clear he CANNOT hire lawyers. They all decline.

He has no case on appeal. She was so bad that she did not maintain a record for appeal. She didn't know how to do it. Any appellate lawyer looking at this knows it's a complete loser. A good appellate lawyer would tell Trump that his only recourse is malpractice.

Wouldn't someone on the team filled her in on how to conduct this defense? Or are they as clueless as she is?

They are playing all this to the peanut gallery. But her legal services were deplorable and harmed Trump. Hahahaha.

R29, the NY bar exam is two days. The first day is all writing (essays and other analytical work). The multiple choice part is the second day.

L-O-S-E-R

I had the gut feeling that she was auditioning for the role of "Wife #4". We all kmow that Melania has all but checked out of her role as "Stand by your Man, Wife #3".

[quote] I think it is very common to get new counsel to represent you in the appeal.

I do too, because I read the article

Auditioning for Wifey 4? She's got Gregg Reuben, who IS fuckable. And she has one good looking kid out of three, from her first husband, which is a kind of miracle because he was fug. I think she knows the dangers of ugly sperm.

[quote] Of course it doesn't matter [R11]. He sucks in every possible way.

He does, except one. He is very good at manipulating morons. He doesn’t suck at that at all.

I know, r44. 50% multiple choice, 30% essay question, 20% practical exercises. Louisiana, which is not a UBE state, is three days of essays. I haven't looked into California, but it is supposed to be one of the toughest also. I was just saying since New York has the same exam as 37 other states, it can't be the toughest in the country.

I’m sure deluded Alina thinks she will work on the appeals because of all her valuable insight.

She could be working on negotiating a settlement

R50, unfortunately they dumbed the NY exam (by adopting the UBE) as of about 5 years ago.

Raping a 13 yo with Epstein, stealing nuclear secrets and demanding the right to kill whoever you want is one thing but yelling at your lawyer because she gave away a sandwich pushes me right over the edge.

I hope he reminded her that she was as unfuckable as her client and refused to validate her parking after he said' "see you next Tuesday" twice! And told her about the bad sandwich that she didn't eat. It's like an episode of Family Guy. I bet her farted in her chair too.

It is standard practice to hire specialists in appellate work. It would be normal for the trial attorney to assist in locating and interviewing appellate lawyers. All of that is normal. What is not normal is that Habba had no idea what she was doing in trial and could not follow evidentiary rules. In order to appeal, one must form a record for appeal, which includes appropriate objections. She did not know how to introduce exhibits into evidence, nor did she understand evidentiary objections.

Alibaba graduated bottom of her class at Trump University Law School!

How long do they have to file the appeal before the other side can move to collect the award?

Trump Supporters Think Alina Habba Is A Deep State Plant Intentionally Hurting Trump

The insanity is like water, isn’t it r58? It keeps running to the lowest level.

Haha R58. She lies down with a dog and gets fleas. Coming from all sides. Serves her right.

R57, it's my understanding that they have to put the money in an escrow account with the court pending appeal, so even though she might not get it immediately he still is out that money (unless he wins on appeal). As others have pointed out, it's doubtful an appeals court will even accept the case because of the lawyer's ignorance about trial procedure.

Daddy, I tried, and told you Alex Murdaugh is not available to handle your case.

He will hire his daughter Tiffany Trump. Erik will play second banana to Tiffany in the court room.

Even though it would be financially advantageous, I can’t imagine Trump settling this dispute.

He settled the Trump University loss.

But was that from a verdict? No one from EJC’s side has mentioned settling.

Really 66 Oh you're right, it was a pre-trial (2 trials actually) settlement.

It's not up to Trump to settle with E. Jean--that's her decision, she holds the power. Which is driving him insane, no doubt.

The only way I could see her settling would be if he makes a public apology and says that he did indeed rape her. But that'll never happen. (And if he did apologize, 5 minutes later he'd tweet out that it's not true and they made him say that).

What appeal? R61 is correct that there’s no appeal possible until Trump relinquishes control of $83+ million to the court. We know that’s not going to happen. It’s been pointed out clearly in another thread that Habba messed up so badly in court there’s essentially zero chance Trump could win an appeal at even the first approach or a subsequent appeal of that loss in court. What’s going on is the usual Trump Theater (it’s not my fault; it’s someone else’s fault; what verdict, there’s no verdict). Every day that Trump continues to speak, the US’s reputation is degraded at a time when the world is getting seriously more dangerous. It’s why Biden said what he did about Trump; he knows Trump is a serious problem for the US in many ways.

There's no settlement once there's been a verdict. He must pay.

"I hire only the best people"

Every time that he evades responsibility for outbursts in court, for ignoring the judge, for press conferences that cast aspersions on the judge, the clerks, the juries, he destroys a thread holding our democracy together. Every time Habba discourteously addresses the court, she does the same. They have destroyed the functionality of Congress. They have compromised the Supreme Court. And now they are going after the justice system.

And now it's come out that Trump had private investigators looking into Habba and other lawyers working on the Carrol cases to verify they were working in his best interests.

Fat old paranoid fool. LOL

Habba rooked Trump.

Got her money up-front, performed for him; results? Whatever.

Bwahahahaha!

The Con-Man got conned.

And, he bought Stormi Daniels silence, and she still yapped, kept the money and probably is financially better off now then ever.

I'll add Melania to the mix ,too.

I see a pattern - Trump the mark.

All Dump does is lose. Loses elections. Loses court cases. Loses his sanity. Loser.

Reading the story at R21 he's exactly the petulant cunt I knew he would be. I'm surprised someone hasn't shot him. He must have watertight security.

Lowlifes like Trump, who only surround themselves with other lowlifes, are too stupid to figure out that every person they associate with are exactly the types who'll turn on them in a New York second if it suits their purposes. Even that retard Walt Nauta who fetches his catsup and probably shakes his little snubnosed pecker for him after he pisses would turn state's evidence if it meant saving his own ass.

Walt is a little scoundrel himself.

I still believe Habba followed her clients demands to the letter in her performance.

Every whataboutism was orchestrated by her boss and she did exactly what she was told to do by someone who believes he is above court procedures.

Walt, I need a diaper change and hose down. 💩 And a Diet Coke.

Yes, r78, and he blames HER for his dumb shit being ignored by the court.

Typical whiny MAGAt response- it’s someone else’s fault!

The wheels on the bus go ‘round and ‘round

When I see her name, all I can think of is Ali Baba.

R21? If Roberta had spent some time on DL, she would have known that means C-U-N-T.

We should recruit her.

R2 Ali Baba and the Recalcitrant Orange

Ali Baba and the Fattest Theif.

So, his insult failed as she wasn't hurt or offended by it (at the time)?