The former president’s legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later.

Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, was spotted rubbing elbows with Republicans in New Hampshire on Tuesday, just the day after asking for a delay in the ex-president’s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.

On Monday, one of the nine jurors considering writer E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation suit against Trump was excused for being ill.

Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trump’s legal team requested a delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She was not wearing a mask during the hearing.

The next day, however, Habba was sighted celebrating Trump’s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC News’ Garrett Haake.

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      Technically, I think she said she could fake being smart.

      I think she’s got the faking part down. Still waiting to hear from the jury about the smart part.

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        In a sane world, yes. In the world we live on where money is the main thing that matters and everyone is afraid of what the 30% of America that supports a literal dictator will do as a response to any negative actions taken on trump is seen as an attack on their entire culture.

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          Which I believe Trump is banking on when hiring bad lawyers. To his base it looks like he’s being treated poorly, which will make the base more militant. That way Trump can get the SCOTUS stormed if he’s about to be convicted in the January 6 trial.

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              Since Trump has a reputation for not paying his legal representation, and money is what lawyers crave, I’m sure Trump could get decent lawyers by paying up front.

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                Not even. He also tends not to listen to their advice and undermines his own case by blathering in public. He’s not worth the headaches.

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    The plan is now to delay delay delay so Trump can enter the election. Then when he wins he’ll just pardon himself and be like, “What are you talking about? Remember when I said Biden could do it?”

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      If he were to be elected, would there still be an avenue to disqualify before taking on the oath? He would be the president-elect, not the president, until sworn in.

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        Huh… so would Biden stay president until the court cases are dealt with? How’s that work?

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          I’m not sure. This whole ordeal is pretty much uncharted, so any searches come up with him and not really anything else.

          I do however think I remember there being something that could make the presidency be pushed to the runner up if something isn’t followed. It was from high school, so my memory is a bit foggy.

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            Nope, it goes to the Speaker of the House, but more likely the Supreme Court would just pull a 2000 and assign the presidency.

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              Wait. Really? So say Biden/Harris are Pres/VP. trump/CarrotTop are pres/vp-elect. trump gets disqualified before the inauguration, so when the inauguration comes around, Biden/Harris are out because they lost, and trump has been disqualified, so it goes to the Speaker? Why is CarrotTop disqualified?

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              but more likely the Supreme Court would just pull a 2000 and assign the presidency

              They really didn’t do that though. They essentially decided two things:

              1. A state counting some ballots under different rules than other ballots violates equal protection.

              2. Election deadlines are legal and enforceable.

              Gore wanted to recount a handful of places under a different standard than the rest of the state (basically changing how to handle undervotes, overvotes, that sort of thing) after the previous count and recount under the state standard did not give him a win, starting this recount just a couple of days before the deadline. Bush asked for an injunction and for SCOTUS to sort it out, and SCOTUS heard the case and issued a judgement in frankly record time, but that still meant their opinion was issued 2 hours before the deadline.

              Those looking into the Florida 2000 election after the fact actually came to the conclusion that the last recount Gore called for wouldn’t have caused him to win if completed, but an estimate by one org suggests that had it been a statewide recount under the standard Gore wanted to use that that would have tipped things in Gore’s favor but that’s not a count that had ever been put on the table.

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    I am waiting for the day when she starts her Onlyfans to sell #MAGA merch.

    Edit: I am kinda into her. Got a thing for lawyers

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      I will say, she’s not an unattractive woman per se. But with that said, she looks like the type that would be attractive to someone who considers Melania Trump attractive. Personally, neither one of them are my thing, but they’re both women who I can see others finding attractive.

      Her holier-than-thou, elitist attitude is written all over her face, though, and that’s a huge turn-off for a lot of people. She’d probably be a lot more attractive if she didn’t have a look on her face at all times like she’s proud of being a complete cunt.

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    Disbar immediately. Let him pay for a real lawyer or qualify as indigent if he claims he can’t afford it.