I doubt he will replace her with anyone more competent. He can’t afford anyone good, has a poor track record of picking lawyers, and he’s burned too many bridges without the cash to pay for it.
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He’s also stiffed multitudes of his previous service providers and contractors, IIRC.
Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees, apparently this is a very common occurrence in Trumpworld. Everyone is stiffing everyone.
Also his idea of "good" is someone who doesn't contradict him. He wants to run the case his way, and no reasonably intelligent lawyer will ever agree to that as it will make them look like idiots and the case is a sure loss.
You'd have to be paid enough up front to destroy your career. I don't think he has the money for that.
And a huge rack is a bonus.
Pretty key feature for her predictable career pivot to right wingnut TV legal commentator in 3, 2, 1...
The attorney for the plaintiff even said her entire demeanor changed when trump was out of the room. He wants loyalty, competence optional.
Guess we can assume Alina Habba isn't "reasonably intelligent" then cause... man, does she look like an idiot.
“Somebody said to me ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said ‘Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart’.
This really talks to the world view of these people. They are so stupid they think everything is a show put in for other people. They believe everyone is just like them. That's why they project more than AMC. Their obsession with "virtue signaling" is a perfect example.
At least this lady is self aware. She knows her strength isn't her legal skills, and she knows she won't be young forever. So for her taking on a big case and being exposed as incompetent for the whole world might be worth it - it's unlikely she had much of a legal career to destroy anyway.
She has also inflicted more damage on Trump than any of his opponents have. I respect that.
Well that's obviously true! Trump's one of the greatest legal minds ever, so any ordinary lawyer should simply recognise this and follow Trump's lead. Anything else means you're a dumb lawyer /s
That's a good point. I should offer my services and then let him take the stand to his own detriment. I'll even say I'll do it for free upfront.
That's kind of a cool idea, but depending on where you are this is illegal and/or unethical as lawyers have a fiduciary duty to represent their client's best interest.
https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/fiduciary-duty
A lawyer owes a fiduciary duty to a client. The lawyer must at all times act in the best interest of the client and must make full disclosure of any economic or other interest that the lawyer has that might conflict with the interest of the client. The lawyer is obligated to take all actions and give all advice that will benefit the client and to use professional skill and energy to protect the client’s interests. Should a conflict of interest arise (for example, the lawyer discovers that one client wishes to hire him to sue another one of his clients) the lawyer must immediately make full disclosure of such conflict and take steps to immediately end the conflict regardless of the personal cost to the lawyer.
Good thing I'm not a lawyer.
The client gets to decide the client's best interest. If he wants to take the stand, blocking him from doing so would be a violation of fiduciary duty.
I'm waiting for the court appointed attorneys to show up. at least for the criminal trials.
I mean… feels like that’s 100% on Trump for having selected her as his attorney in the first place? To be fair, his selection criteria for her was probably along the lines of “she got a law degree and she’s hot and I think I could convince her to let me fuck her” because Habba does loosely resemble a younger Melania
she’s hot and I think I could convince her to let me fuck her> >
Yeah... getting approval for sex isn't exactly his m.o. Fucking women without permission is how dip shit got to this trial in the first place.
I mean I get what you’re saying… but as much of an imbecile as he is, I really don’t think he’s dumb enough to rape (or even attempt to rape) his own civil defense lawyer in a case about financial damages he owes a plaintiff that he raped, lost a case against, which effectively legally established that he raped her, and then continued to slander about said rape and case. Like… there has to be a limit.
Like… there has to be a limit.
And yet the limit keeps on getting pushed...
Everytime I think that idiot can't possibly be that stupid or do something that shitty, he takes it to another level. There is no floor on this thing.
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Wouldn’t be surprised if they were fucking.
And then she realized she was never getting paid and stopped.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they were fucking.
Ew. That’s in my head now! EWWW!
She looks a lot like a brunette Ivanka...
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I don't want to think about that, despite which I now can't help but wonder if she's more competent in the bedroom than she is in the courtroom.
It's so weird how Trump seems to constantly surround himself with losers... it's almost like, I don't know, maybe Trump himself is a loser?
It’s so weird how Trump seems to constantly surround himself with losers…
And criminals. Lots and lots of criminals.
Ends up you can fake being smart, but you can't fake competence.
Now she can try faking being employable.
Losers blame anyone else but themselves.
(Not that she's competent or anything, of course, but still.)
It's so funny how he just immediately turns on people when he fires them. Like oh, your lawyer was terrible at her job, your attorney General, your vice president, your Secretary of State, your Secretary of Defense...maybe whoever picks these people is really bad at his job?
Like obviously he's lying for political expedience, but best case scenario if we believed him entirely, he's terrible at HIS job of picking the best people to run things for him.
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Why would trump hire a loser that doesn't know what she's doing?
Could it be that trump is also a loser who doesn't know what he is doing? Is it camaraderie?
Alina Habba has what she wants: a gravy train on the MAGA circuit. To do this, she needed to be a clown, not an attorney.
Yeah, only a total dipshit would hire her.
turnip is always looking for his next scapegoat. How anyone ever agrees to do business with him is beyond me, the pattern is well established, you won’t walk away unscathed..
When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.
She didn't agree to suck his shriveled mandarin slice, so he's firing her.
You don't know that she didn't
I try to keep an moderately optimistic view of humanity. Sure, we are bombing hospitals and shooting grandmothers, but sucking Trumps dick? I just hope we haven't gone that far.
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Well, for once he's not wrong. She certainly proved herself to be an incompetent loser of a lawyer. Even I knew you don't show up in a federal court room without already having memorized the rules for basic shit like introducing evidence.
Well, all that is true...
They say that about anyone who works for Trump.
I'm surprised. Losers usually stick together.
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