If Donald Trump were ever going to pull off a mistrial in court, it would be because of Alina Habba. The scandal-ridden former president’s most notable attorney’s claim to fame certainly isn’t her deep and thorough understanding of the law or courtroom etiquette.
As Donald wades through the New York civil defamation trial to determine the damages he will own to advice columnist and rape victim E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in public, Alina Habba has seemingly made it her mission to make as big an ass out of herself as humanly possible, going so far as to earn herself multiple reprimands from Judge Kaplan in the courtroom — most of which resulted from Habba repeatedly attempting to argue for a pause in the trial to allow her client to attend him mother-in-law’s funeral, despite the fact that Judge Kaplan had already denied her request multiple times.
Eventually, this resulted in Habba getting a rather sharp scolding from the judge, who point-blank told her to “sit down.” Apparently, this hurt the Trump attorney’s feelings, as she whined that she doesn’t like to be spoken to that way, and asked the literal judge not to speak to her like that again.
“I don’t like to be spoken to that way. And we are going to be here for several days,” she said. “I am asking your honor to please refrain from speaking to me in that manner.”
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Given her courtroom nonsense this week, social media users were quick to dig up a clip of a recent interview Habba sat for on the PBD podcast earlier this month, during which Habba proudly declared that she’d much rather be pretty than smart.
“I don’t think I’d be on TV or sitting here if I didn’t look the way I look,” the Trump attorney said about her physical appearance. “I think I caught attention.”
“I’m very honest about that and I don’t mind. I’m not a feminist, I believe in strong women but I want my door opened [for me].”
“Somebody said to me ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said ‘Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart.'”
Frankly, sweetheart, I’m not so sure you can — and most of social media agrees with me:
Alina Habba proved in court today that this statement is categorically false. pic.twitter.com/MKSsF0zVX3
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 17, 2024
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