Ben Meiselas: 'Donald Trump WANTS TO REPLACE Alina Habba With Himself as Lawyer

Source:Meidas Touch- perhaps Alina Habba should be seeking a refund from Donald Trump, for her time as a law student at Trump University. (Assuming that's where she graduated)

"MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump claiming he is going to give the closing argument at the New York civil fraud trial instead of Alina Habba and how this fits the pattern of Trump’s playbook of hiring the worst lawyer so he can whine all the time about losing and getting called out by judges." 

From the Meidas Touch

As I said in November about Alina Habba back in November: 

"If you followed Donald Trump's presidency, I have some therapy that I could recommend that could help you get through that experience. Actually, that's just a joke, since no such therapy has been invented yet. But if you survived the experience of the Donald Trump presidency and so far his post-presidency, you are getting an excellent legal education of the differences between being President and Ex-President, when it comes to your own lawyers. 

When you are the President of the United States, regardless of the POTUS, you have access to be the best of legal profession in this country. Any lawyer just about would be honored to either work in your White House, or work as your personal attorney to address any personal legal issues that you might have when you are President. At least access to the best lawyers in your own party. 

But when you leave The White House, especially in disgrace, when you've just lost reelection and only managed 46% of the popular vote and 232 out of 574 electoral votes, in a two-way race, you've been impeached twice in just 4 years, you have all the legal issues that are now in front of you because of your illegal conduct as President of the United States, you are very unpopular, at least outside of your own party, you have mounting financial debt in front of you because of all the money that you lost when you were President, you have access to whatever is left. 

Alina Habba is not really a trial lawyer. She can barely afford to do whatever she does as a lawyer right now. She's more of a public relations lawyer, if anything at all, who makes her living trying her client's cases on TV and on social media. But she's officially Donald Trump's civil lawyer right now because she's about the best of what's left to try to defend him, because of his own financial situation and all the evidence that's against him right now, in multiple cases." 

From The New Democrat

Ron Filipkowksi on Donald Trump: "I've said this before. It truly a blessing that Trump surrounds himself with so many morons. If he hired competent people we'd be in worst trouble." 

Donald Trump's lawyer (and I use the term lawyer very generously when talking about Alina Habba) I believe back in November, talking about her client testifying at the New York state civil fraud trial that's against him: "He's so firmly against what is happening in this court. And so firmly in favor of the old America that we know, not this America, that he'll take that stand on Monday." 

"Closings are the last opportunity to present legal arguments, and they are almost always conducted by lawyers, unless a defendant has chosen to represent themselves. Engoron pointed out that whether Trump would be allowed to speak was "completely at my discretion" under New York state law.

In a message to the former president's legal team and lawyers from the New York Attorney General's Office on Jan. 5, Engoron laid out the conditions that Trump must adhere to if he wished to address the court.

"He may not seek to introduce new evidence. He may not 'testify.' He may not comment on irrelevant matters. In particular, and without limitation, he may not deliver a campaign speech, and he may not impugn myself, my staff, plaintiff, plaintiff's staff, or the New York State Court System, none of which is relevant to this case," Engoron wrote, later calling the limits "reasonable" and "lawful."

In his replies to Engoron, Trump attorney Christopher Kise complained about the restrictions the judge imposed.

"This is very unfair, your Honor. You are not allowing President Trump, who has been wrongfully demeaned and belittled by an out of control, politically motivated Attorney General, to speak about the things that must be spoken about," Kise wrote Wednesday morning." 

From CBS News

So Donald Trump I guess wants to give at least part of his closing arguments himself (there's so many ways to make fun of that as well, but too little time) but Judge Engeron said that Mr. Trump can't because he didn't agree to the conditions that the Judge laid out for those closing arguments.

I still stand by what I said about Alina Habba back in November. Alina Habba is someone whose simply trying to make a name for herself as a lawyer, or MAGA political activist, before becoming a real lawyer. And I'm sure she passed the bar and has a legal license, (perhaps from Trump University) but that's not the same as being a lawyer. 

A real, competent, responsible, honest, sane, and sober lawyer, (and hopefully that's some small club of lawyers that has their get togethers in public bathrooms) doesn't spend most of their time on TV, making garbage arguments that no one believes. (That no serious lawyer would make in court (because they don't want to lose their law license) 

What serious lawyers do instead is put together a competent, case, in favor of their client, based on hard evidence, that at least suggests, if not proves that their client is innocent of what they're being charged of. And if they can't do that, perhaps they seek a deal with the prosecutors, or try to win their case on appeal

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