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Judge Threatens to Put Trump Lawyer Alina Habba 'in the Lockup' at E. Jean Carroll Trial
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Why was she ever admitted to the bar in the first place when she doesn't understand basic courtroom etiquette?
She understands. She is trying to get attention and is desperate.
I honestly don't think she does. Why would she risk being thrown in jail for that? She did multiple things that made the judge reprimand her.
Rudy Giuliani was a prosecutor and deputy attorney general. He was also well known as “America’s Mayor” after rallying New Yorkers in the wake of 9/11. Yet that didn’t stop him from ruining his own life committing crimes to protect Trump.
It’s really bizarre!
I agree, but Rudy has never said anything remotely like this-
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alina-habba-trump-lawyer-court-b2481296.html
And I don't think that statement was part of some sort of complicated 4-D chess to protect trump. The easiest explanation is she's stupid but pretty and willing to work for free. What more could Trump ask for?
Not well.
she can fake being smart to stupid people quite well
She's not wrong. I have someone in my extended family who was a willowy 5'10 very attractive woman with no kids who couldn't have out-mathed my at the time sixth grader (really, no hyperbole, I was present for real world examples of this happening) who is the CFO of a company in San Diego with a beach front condo.
She could've used makeup and surgery to fake being pretty.
Well, we both know she didn't choose smart.
She knows the judge has on kid gloves for the trial so as not to give any reason for an appeals court to overturn. So she's pushing her luck. Also makes get famous for "sticking it to the judge" in Republican circles.
Or, again, she's stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
There is nothing to gain by concluding its stupidity. The Republican party harbors malice; Trump harbors malice. A razor doesn't supersede evidence.
Do you really think Habba is playing 4-D chess? She's working for a man who never pays his lawyers.
That's because she's angling for a job with one of the Republican news networks.
She didn't take the case because she thought she would get paid directly for it.
So either she’s smart enough to pass the bar and stupid enough not to understand how payment works or she’s not looking for financial compensation.
The bar isn’t that hard, but it’s hard to be that dumb and still pass it.
and gets quite a few of them disbarred.
Because it really isn't a risk at this point. She's been in contempt of court many times already.
To perform for the base and lend credence to the "witch hunt" claim.
Or, you know, she's stupid.
Don't misunderestimate your enemies.
I wouldn't call him smart either.
I think the use of "misunderestimate" already implied that, eh?
Yeah that’s why he acted like that. To get people to just think he’s just an old southern fool.
Yes, the Connecticut-born, Yale-educated southern good old boy was probably not smarter than his Vice President, but he wasn’t anywhere near as dumb as he seemed
Don’t forget governor of Texas after all that
Never underestimate the stupidity of a republican.
Why not both?
Oh, I'm not certain she doesn't understand. Performative art. She got used to performing in a way her main audience (mango mussolini et al) enjoyed in the no jury case, with state level Judge Engoran - that she thinks she can use the same tricks that make him smile on a federal judge.
To me this is hubris, not ignorance. To be clear there is a fair bit of both, but thus is show work not trial work.
Her inability to properly file evidence is her ignorance. Sass is for show imo.
You don't need to understand courtroom etiquette to pass a bar exam.
Nah she's just grandstanding for Trump he will like it