Alina Habba is at it again…
Trump, as expected, threw one hell of a rager campaign party in New Hampshire as the results of the Granite State’s primary election rolled in. Among the partygoers caught on camera at the celebratory event was possibly his most notorious and highly-mocked attorney, Alina Habba.
Now, at first glance, one would expect her to be in attendance at such a high-profile client’s victory party, right? Of course. Except for the fact that Habba had gotten Donald’s defamation trial delayed literally the day before she showed her face at the big shindig, claiming that she had significant COVID exposure, was feeling sick, and running a fever.
On Monday of this week, the former president pitched a bit of a hissy fit over his trial delay in the defamation case lodged against him by his rape victim E. Jean Carroll — despite the fact that the delay was due, in large part, to his own lawyer.
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One of the jurors in the case was sent home sick, but both the judge and Carroll’s attorney were willing to plow ahead with the trial with only 8 jurors. It was Alina Habba who brought Monday’s court date to a screeching halt when Trump’s own legal team requested a delay after Habba told the judge that she was ill. The attorney claimed to have been recently exposed to someone with the COVID-19 virus and specifically noted that she was feeling symptomatic and running a fever.
But lo and behold, Habba apparently had a miraculous recovery from her ailments, as she was spotted at her client’s big victory campaign event in New Hampshire the very next day.
NBC’s Garrett Haake was the first to bust the Trump attorney, reporting live:
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba is at his campaign’s return party in New Hampshire.
Habba, who is representing Trump in the New York civil defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll, became the subject of discussion when she told the court yesterday that her family had Covid and she had been exposed. After a juror tested positive, the case was delayed, and it isn’t scheduled to resume until Thursday.”
As expected, the news of Alina’s attendance was quickly picked up by various other news outlets, with many assuming that Habba had just flat-out lied about her illness to buy some extra time away from the courtroom.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and said she doesn’t necessarily think that Habba lied, and she’s willing to take the Trump attorney at her word:
p.s. I am not insinuating Habba lied. At all. I take her at her word. She said she had been exposed and was feeling feverish over the weekend; she also represented on Monday that she tested negative that morning.
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) January 24, 2024
What I am suggesting, however is that *someone else* who has been a regular courtroom presence has COVID, without which there would be little reason for a three-day delay.
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) January 24, 2024
Whether Habba lied about her illness or not, she was certainly caught red-handed at the event, looking as healthy as ever, when Trump supporter Dylan Quattrucci posted this photo to social media:
Just arrived at President Trump’s NH primary victory party and ran into the wonderful Alina Habba.
Alina is President Trump’s rockstar attorney & a huge inspiration of mine! pic.twitter.com/DPELdCyF6z
— Dylan Quattrucci (@Dylan4America) January 23, 2024
Featured image via screen capture
