“Glaringly obvious” incompetence on display as judge tells jury to “disregard everything Ms. Habba just said”
Trump lawyer Alina Habba struggled through her cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the defamation case against the former president, repeatedly admonished the attorney for running afoul of his court rules and general procedures.
Prior to Carroll’s testimony, Habba requested an adjournment so that Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.
“The application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it. None. Do you understand that word? None. Please sit down,” Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, told Habba about the motion that he already denied.
Kaplan repeatedly interrupted Habba’s questions, including when she began to read from a document that had not been formally entered into evidence, sending the trial to a recess.
¿Por qué no los dos?
She does serve Trump. She is undoubtedly following not just his specific orders but his ongoing strategy of obstruction, confusion, dogwhistling and chaos-sowing wherever she can.
But she’s ALSO intensely short-sighted in that Trump will not protect her from the consequences of the choices she makes on his behalf. If she gets censured, loses her license, or ends up getting charged with crimes herself, he will simply drop her. Nor does she seem to be casting a lot of concern toward her post-Trump career options, either. All of that is stupid as hell, IMO.
But what’s dumbest of all is the likelihood that she is simply getting paid in promises, agreeing to postpone some portion or all of her pay, with all the blind hubris that makes her believe she will be different from all the other attorneys and partners and contractors and workers he’s stiffed throughout the decades. If that’s true, it will certainly keep her a Trump favorite, until he stiffs and discards her just like all the rest. Kise got his $3M upfront; does anyone here think she did the same? I don’t, lol.