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.

  • Maeve
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    Disbar immediately. Let him pay for a real lawyer or qualify as indigent if he claims he can’t afford it.

    • themeatbridge
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      I keep thinking, this is where the judge throws someone in jail for contempt of court. Right?

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        In a sane world, yes. In the world we live on where money is the main thing that matters and everyone is afraid of what the 30% of America that supports a literal dictator will do as a response to any negative actions taken on trump is seen as an attack on their entire culture.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

          • jackeryjoo
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            Agreed. It also helps that no competent lawyer will work for him.

            • @[email protected]
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              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.

              • @[email protected]
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                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.

    • Kalkaline
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      Maybe, but just maybe she kills a bunch of Republicans with COVID. A net positive for society if that happened.

    • @[email protected]
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      Let’s hope for the best case scenario: she actually did have covid and spread the virus to other totalitarian ghouls

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • Queue
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          As a person with long covid, people like you can go fuck yourselves

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          If we were talking about the normal populace, sure. But we’re taking about an aged and under-vaccinated group.

            • Schadrach
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              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.

          • prole
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            101 year ago

            Please, Republican politicians are all vaccinated. They just pushed that shit to please the plebs

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          Statistics indicate you are not a researcher. Stick to the like and dislike button on YouTube. Dunning Kruger thanks you for your service.

        • @[email protected]
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          1171 year ago

          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.

      • Nougat
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        She’s so bad at faking smartness that she can barely be dumb.

    • Maeve
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      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?

      • Flying Squid
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        As they say- do you know what they call the person who comes last in medical school? Doctor.

        • Maeve
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          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!

          • dohpaz42
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            111 year ago

            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.

              • dohpaz42
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                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.

            • @[email protected]
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              Yup, my high school valedictorian was the dumbest person I’ve ever met. But she could regurgitate information on a test without understanding it.

              • @[email protected]
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                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.

                • dohpaz42
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                  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.

          • Flying Squid
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            I’m guessing it’s easier in some states than others and I’m also guessing she chose an easy state.

            • Maeve
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              I retract you can not memorize a bad exam. Thinking of Miriam Bialik’s photographic memory. Agree some states have low bar exams🤣.

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    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?”

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      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.

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            Nope, it goes to the Speaker of the House, but more likely the Supreme Court would just pull a 2000 and assign the presidency.

            • Schadrach
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              but more likely the Supreme Court would just pull a 2000 and assign the presidency

              They really didn’t do that though. They essentially decided two things:

              1. A state counting some ballots under different rules than other ballots violates equal protection.

              2. 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.

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              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?

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          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.

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    Is she trying to fast track disbarment? Lying to the court is an excellent way to, at a minimum, receive a suspension.

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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      I will say, she’s not an unattractive woman per se. But with that said, she looks like the type that would be attractive to someone who considers Melania Trump attractive. Personally, neither one of them are my thing, but they’re both women who I can see others finding attractive.

      Her holier-than-thou, elitist attitude is written all over her face, though, and that’s a huge turn-off for a lot of people. She’d probably be a lot more attractive if she didn’t have a look on her face at all times like she’s proud of being a complete cunt.