OMG. This is explosive. If I was Alina Habba I would keep the boss from seeing any TV news shows or even Twitter feeds relating to the catastrophic verdict in court today. Because when Donald Trump finds out that his former attorney, Tim Parlatore, told Kaitlan Collins that, “From my perspective, I would regret having her represent him. I think in both these trials, he was essentially undefended,” the ketchup bottles will flee en masse. Habba might consider following them, before Trump throws her at the wall. Or Melania does. That’s another possibility.
And this is the killer. When Trump reads this, Habba might want to update her resume and start sending it out. Parlatore also said, “I think it could have turned out differently.” There’s the death knell, right there. Trump wanted one result and one only, to get off — or get off with a slap on the wrist. Habba is now in the position that Anne Boleyn was in when Henry VIII wanted one result and one only, a son, and she bore a female. And Habba may meet the same fate. Off with her head.
If you just listened to that, you heard the long pause at the end after Collins asked Parlatore, “Should he [Trump] have a different legal team on the appeal?” And Parlatore answered, after a pause so pregnant it could have had octuplets, “Oh yes, definitely, you shouldn’t have the same lawyer that did the case do the appeal. That’s generally inadvisable because the attorney who tried the case is going to have a lot of personal biases on how they tried the case and so you really want to have a fresh set of eyes and you want to have somebody who is actually an appellate expert on it — which I do not believe Alina Habba is an appellate expert.”
Now you know why Joe Tacopina quit at the 11th hour. He saw the trainwreck coming when it was still a light down the tracks and he got out of the vicinity. Ergo, his reputation and his law license are firmly intact.
You also heard Parlatore just say that Habba could have worked with the jury to arrive at a lower figure. What was unspoken were the words, “As any real lawyer would have.” Habba’s not a real lawyer, she’s a performance artist, much as Alex Jones is a performance artist and not a talk show host or journalist.
Unfortunately, Trump is in need of actual competent legal representation — and he didn’t have that in these two trials. As Parlatore said, the loss of the first trial boxed in the circumstances of the second — but, if Habba had acknowledged that and just tried to negotiate a reasonable figure, she and Trump could have been out of there.
But they didn’t and they’re not. So, Trump needs an appellate lawyer. Any ideas?
- Rudy Giuliani? No, Rudy’s too busy going bankrupt and dealing with his own conga line of legal and financial troubles;
- Clarence Darrow? Great choice. But for the fact that he’s dead, he might be able to fit the bill most suitably;
- Somebody Jared finds on Amazon or in the phone book? Jared and Donald aren’t speaking these days. Plus, Jared’s busy holding smelling salts under Ivanka’s nose. She fainted dead away when she heard the amount of the judgment;
- Kimberly? Please. The only thing Kimberly concentrates on these days is not falling out of one of her Elvira costumes with the cleavage. She’s got no time for law.
Well, that shot my wad. Any of you have any ideas, and or connections in the world of white shoe east coast lawyers who do appellate work for faux billionaires who are down on their luck and have a reputation for not paying their lawyers?
This is going to be a real mess. And this is going to be the story in Trump world to watch — at least until this Wednesday January 31, which is when Judge Engoron may render another hefty judgment which Trump needs to appeal — and Habba can’t be the appellate lawyer there, either, same rationale.
Also, curiously enough, January 31 is National Backward Day, “The day provides an opportunity to reverse our ways, our direction or simply our shirt. Dessert for breakfast, perhaps? There are many ways to celebrate this fun day, so just let your imagination be your guide.” Maybe it’s the day that Donald Trump realizes how completely phuqued he is and cobbles together an appeal himself, promising to leave the country and never come back, in exchange for all cases against him being dropped and all judgments against him being vacated?
Hey, wouldn’t that be something? Why do I have that eerie feeling again that we’re all characters in a Kurt Vonnegut novel? Farewell, hello Donald.
Seems quite obvious that Habba Dabba Do made it through law school on her back with heels high in the air…….
*smirk*
…….what competent lawyer would throw away his/her career defending the indefensible, knowing full well they won’t even be paid.
breeding when she should have been reading…
I”m sure she thought all news coverage, etc. is good news coverage for her future career. She will be finding out that in her case, this will not be true. Funny thing about people in need of an attorney–most want competent ones.
She’s not competent, and drank way too much kool Aid to understand that tramp isn’t going to pay her, and will smear her name and what is left of her “reputation”.
When every facial expression she has is resting DuckFace, I think you’re 100% correct!!
I’m beginning to wonder if Don John deliberately picked a lawyer who would make a real mess of a case that he knew he would lose and then use that as grounds for appeal in that ‘he was denied adequate representation’.
In short: Habba – meet bus
how else to keep donations flowing?
As I’ve just found out, bad representation isn’t grounds for an appeal, but I’d bet anything you like that Don John didn’t know that.
Expect a further explosion on Truth(less Anti-)Social as to how his First Amendment rights are being denied.
This is a civil case, not a criminal one. I read earlier that exactly what you suggest has no bearing on a civil case other that to show how stupid you were with your choice of lawyer.
About this: “Habba’s not a real lawyer, she’s a performance artist, much as Alex Jones is a performance artist and not a talk show host or journalist.”
For what it’s worth a “talk show host” or “journalist” can be as much a “performance artist” as anyone else.
Among the talk show hosts, might I remind you of the likes of Jerry Springer and Maury Povich. As for the journalists, might I remind you of Geraldo Rivera (most notably for the “Al Capone’s vault” fiasco) and Barbara Walters (in fairness, she did seem to balance her celebrity interviews with some legitimate journalism but, when you think of Walters’ interviews, the most memorable ones seem to be with celebrities rather than her interviews with the likes of Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter or Fidel Castro)?
The thing I hate about using “performance artist” to describe the likes of Habba-Dabba and Jones and most of the GOP Congresscritters is that it denigrates the likes of REAL performance artists like Jackson Pollock, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson and Pussy Riot (just to name a few) who actually used art as either part of or the entirety of their performance (conversely, used performing as either part of or the entirety of their art).
“characters in a Kurt Vonnegut novel”
In HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. trump could well be Harrison Bergeron.
Diana Moon Clampers, the Handicapper General could be Nikki Haley.
“Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood – in the center of the studio.
The knob of the uprooted studio door was still in his hand. Ballerinas,
technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him,
expecting to die.
“I am the Emperor!” cried Harrison. “Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody
must do what I say at once!” He stamped his foot and the studio shook.
“Even as I stand here” he bellowed, “crippled, hobbled, sickened – I am a
greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can
become!”
who am I kidding that story by Kurt Vonnegut is a masterpiece IMO.
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
And, speaking of Rooty Tooty Giuliani’s legal/money woes, Trump’s finances are going to get pulled into that bankruptcy case, too! Giuliani is listing the legal fees Trump hasn’t paid him as part of his assets. I don’t have a clear idea how that all works, but it certainly drags Trump’s deadbeat ass into yet another legal venue! 🤣
The problem, as I expect through sheer speculation, is they would have to meet his requirements. That could range from giving him the reins while I ride in the stagecoach, to being as subservient as a geisha. After watching him in action time and again, the only ones willing to represent him can be found locked up on psychiatric wards for delusional or suicidal ideation. That’s got to be a very small pool.
It’s too bad, and too sad that Habba learned the hard way that you actually CAN fake being pretty (botox, face and chin lifts, lip plumpers, implants, make up, hair extensions, wigs) but you CAN”T fake intelligence. She’s so busy preening in her mirror that she got it backwards.
Rainyj: Judging by her post-verdict comments outside the courthouse, Ms. Habba has NOT “gotten the message”…
It’s my understanding that, to take this reward to MS. Carroll out of the picture with an appeal, Trump has to secure an 83.3 million dollar Bond, (with cash), that can be distributed to her later as he fails in his attempt squash the trial results …
I am not a lawyer, but if this is true, and his businesses are tanking, wouldn’t that be reason enough to throw the faker in prison if he built a bond without REAL cash?
Getting 50 cents a day for prison jobs would take a very long time … To pay back whoever was foolish enough to back that bond for Trump … Trump is failing so fast, just because he cannot, and will NOT stop flapping those ugly jaws …
More like a Robert Heinlein novel or shirt story. Nehemiah Scudder. I read it in high school 59+ years,ago. Bow we’re living it as, the evangelical right conspires with the plutocrats to make it hapoen.
maybe Tiffany will represent him. she threw away her soul when she joined the Org, as Marla would have advised her not to do.
Nancy: I read somewhere along the way that Marla DID advise Tiffany to stay out of Daddy Donald’s enterprises, but it appears the temptation was too much to resist…
My history fails me Ursula. Which king put his wife’s head in front of the canon barrel and lit it up. Pretty sure it was a English king although it could have been a French one. One of the two. I know one of the good ladies went to the guillotine. I think they were just a bit over the top back then.
Oh yeah, now I remember. Was thinking it’s probably a good thing that Donnie is to stupid to read history books or we would all be in trouble. I can see it now. A Monty Python line up to the guillotine on Saturday mornings. Get your coffee and the latest choppings in the news for the week. I can just imagine them getting the bronze bozo laid out on the block and him freaking out over the hair and his bald spot. And they are really starting to show. I’m thinking Melanie was taking care of the mop and after moms funeral I would believe she passed the torch on that one. Last side shot showed a major shortcoming. I have been challenged in the hair area lately so you notice things more often. It might have been MeidesTouch that showed him bald as a cueball. 🌪👍🤬😱🤯