Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed waitress by tricking her into an unfair hush money deal, according to the ex-employee’s lawyer. But the curiously worded contract left the former president’s own attorney Alina Habba—a rising star in … Read more
Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Monday slyly declared that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. (Watch the video below.) In a chat with host Jesse Watters on Fox News, Habba and Watters were discussing strong liberal response to the Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling that Trump could not be omitted from state ballots on a 14th … Read more
E. Jean Carroll attorneys Roberta Kaplan and Matthew Craig are still processing the levels of stress they endured while working across from Trump lawyer Alina Habba during the now concluded defamation trial. On Friday, Salon’s Senior News Editor, Igor Derysh, reported on Kaplan’s revelation in a podcast interview with George Conway that Trump called her a euphemism for the c-word in a … Read more
Former President Donald Trump spent just three minutes on the witness stand Thursday in his defamation trial brought by E. Jean Carroll, using the his testimony to declare he backs his deposition denying the writer’s claims. When his lawyer, Alina Habba, asked if he stands by the deposition, Trump replied, “100 percent, yes,” The Messenger … Read more
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday argued why Alina Habba is now “the current front-runner as worst Trump lawyer to appear in court so far.” The “Last Word” anchor pointed to Habba’s admission in court that, “I don’t know how to try this case, your honor.” Habba’s declaration came after the Trump legal team’s pre-trial objections … Read more
Judge Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York, had to instruct attorneys to lower their voices after an outburst from Alina Habba, an attorney for the former president. Habba became incensed about a number of perceived issues with the judge, including the fact that he is holding a … Read more