Trump world has tilted on its axis the past 24 hours as Donald Trump announced late last night that he’s looking for new legal counsel to represent him in an appeal of his $83.3 million damages verdict to E. Jean Carroll for defamation. One thing is certain: a fine of that magnitude is effective. Trump is keeping his mouth shut about Jean Carroll. For now. Who knows when a combination of bottled up rage, fatigue, and some unknown slight might cause him to go off the deep end and into another 34-post meltdown disparaging the columnist? But for now all’s quiet.
For the moment, Trump is not concentrating on the plaintiff who won the hefty judgment. He’s too busy worrying about the appeal. You may recall last week when Habba claimed, “the behavior I saw in there gave us the most perfect record on appeal.” Really? And would that be in this dimension or another one? Because legal scholars are in agreement that there is no reversible error, and certainly not the abundance of them that Habba is touting. Here are a few clips which will warm you up for the debacle you’re about to witness as yet another Trump loyalist gets excommunicated and goes the way of coffee boy. Alina, we hardly knew ye. Go to 4:37 to hear Ty Cobb discourse on Habba’s “mafia ways.”
If you missed this from this morning, this is good.
Habba is on her way to coffee boy for a number of reasons. In all fairness, it would be highly unusual if Habba was the attorney in the appellate case. Cases on appeal are handled by specialists in those cases for good reason, the main one being that the trial lawyer who lost the case is hardly going to be unbiased. A set of fresh eyes going through a transcript is always a good thing.
Trump says he’s looking for counsel, but the reality is that he’s hoping to find somebody who can find the needle in the haystack, the reversible error. Maybe somebody will find something and give it a go. We shall soon find out.
As to Habba being on the downswing on other levels, MAGA has now turned against her. And when that happens, it’s trouble.
The Deep State has been forcing Trump to hire the worst lawyers for going on 30 years, apparently.
— Frank Fuhrig (@FrankFuhrig) February 1, 2024
Trump's not saving anyone. Never was.
— Its506 (@Graycatsrule) January 31, 2024
I mean, I’ve given up on using logic and reason with these people, but surely they have to know that DJT is not the astute businessman he’s tried to portray himself as. He’s clearly a disaster at hiring/selecting representatives. They’re like a who’s who of incompetence.
— teemcee 🎀🎂🌷💖🌸👛 (@teemcee) January 31, 2024
The irony here is that Trump did get what he paid for. He paid Alina Habba to be eye candy and to do performative political theater. She did those two things. If he had actually wanted to negotiate out some kind of a reasonable settlement, he could have hired somebody who would have done that for him. Trump painted himself into this corner. It’s not Habba’s fault. It’s his.
Nevertheless, it will be interesting to watch Habba excommunicated from Trump world. She’s gotten paid a couple of million dollars from Trump. I hope she invested it wisely. And don’t forget, at some point Judge Arthur Engoron will finally announce the verdict in the Trump Organization fraud trial and that will spell out a second big Habba loss. Christopher Kise, Habba’s co-counsel, got his money up front and he didn’t do the performance theater game. He got a nice chunk of change, a $3M retainer and who knows how much in fees, so he made out quite well. Habba is the one who jumped in with both feet and who’s going to end up taking the fall when Trump tires of her. Oh, well. At least she won’t get beheaded in this day and age.
Brings a sweet new meaning to “15 minutes of fame!” Works for me…:)
All his attorneys end up like the Black knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail…with their heads lopped off, lying on the ground, talking shit they can’t back up! Come to think of it…that’s his entire cult!
Trump’s lawyers, a ‘who’s who of incompetence’.
Perfectly put.
And what he deserves.
I said after the NY state civil fraud case concluded and judge Engoron took it under advisement to craft a ruling that the the countdown clock had started with Habba. Yes, we’ve had the Carroll case in the interim but if one listened closely you could hear the relentless “Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock” in the background. Today it struck not midnight but coffee boy/girl!
Maybe the lawyers with working brains have decided that working for Trump can have some possible results
1: They won’t get paid
2: They could end up being sanctioned by the judge
3: They could possibly face disbarment
4: They could lose prospective clients who have seen their performance
When she said “I’d rather be pretty smart, you can always fake smart” I knew he was screwed. Only an incompetent, stupid person would make a braindead comment like that.