Michael Popok: 'Judge Hits Donald Trump With BRUTAL Ruling, Lawsuit BACKFIRES'

Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: Donald Trump propagandist & perhaps Trump University graduate Alina Habba and her defendant Don.

"The team of Trump and Habba strike again, as a New York judge awards the New York Times almost $500,000 in attorneys fees because Trump violated their First Amendment rights by suing them over a Pulitzer Prize winning article that detailed Trump and his father’s tax fraud that let Trump pocket almost $500 million when his father died in 1999. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains that yet another  legal screw up by Habba by filing a suit in direct violation of a NY statute that had just been amended TO ADDRESS TRUMP’S OWN LITIGATION MISCONDUCT, led to the judge’s easy decision." 

From the Meidas Touch

"Donald Trump must pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times and three of its reporters, a judge ruled Friday.

The former president unsuccessfully sued the Times, along with reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russ Buettner, over a 2018 Pulitzer-winning story on the Trump family’s wealth and tax filings... 

From POLITICO

"What happened in Room 300 of the New York County Courthouse in lower Manhattan in November had never happened. Not in the preceding almost two and a half centuries of the history of the United States. Donald Trump was on the witness stand. It was not unprecedented in the annals of American jurisprudence just because it was a former president, although that was totally true. It was unprecedented because the power dynamic of the courtroom had been upended — the defendant was not on defense, the most vulnerable person in the room was the most dominant person in the room, and the people nominally in charge could do little about it.

It was unprecedented, too, because over the course of four or so hours Trump savaged the judge, the prosecutor, the attorney general, the case and the trial — savaged the system itself. He called the attorney general “a political hack.” He called the judge “very hostile.” He called the trial “crazy” and the court “a fraud” and the case “a disgrace.” He told the prosecutor he should be “ashamed” of himself. The judge all but pleaded repeatedly with Trump’s attorneys to “control” him. “If you can’t,” the judge said, “I will.” But he didn’t, because he couldn’t, and audible from the city’s streets were the steady sounds of sirens and that felt absolutely apt." 

From POLITICO

Again, from I wrote about Alina Habba. And if you disagree with anything that I've written about her as a lawyer the last two months, feel free to make the case against me on this post and The New Democrat in general: 

"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. 

Perhaps one of the reasons right now that Alina Habba owes millions of dollars, is because her own client is not paying her. But she's trying to work for him anyway, perhaps banking on the fact that defending a former President of the United States, would lead to clients who can and would pay her very well for her legal advice and actions in the future. But that career strategy is obviously not working out for her right now. " 

From The New Democrat

As much as Donald Trump's opponents (and that means Republicans, Democrats, and Independents) like to argue that Donald Trump is an idiot, he actually isn't. I think the way to look at Donald Trump (at risk of sounding very insulting) is to look at him like a street mobster, but with a college degree and a white-collar background. Not saying the man should be a brain surgeon, an astronaut, American history professor, etc. But if you think you are being overtaxed, or perhaps shouldn't have to pay taxes at all, Donald Trump would probably be a good guy to go to for that.

And I only mention this because I for the life of me (and of course we could all speculate here) I have no idea what Donald Trump personally sees in Alina Habba as a lawyer. And I guess I go back to my November article about her and the differences between a sitting President of the United States and a disgraced former President of the United States, when it comes to legal counsel. The current president's have access to the best lawyers in the entire country, if not world. But former president's who are simply trying to stay out of prison, have access to what's left. 

What's left in the legal profession for disgraced, former president's, are the lawyers who are simply struggling with their own careers, who need a wealthy client to jumpstart their careers. It's obvious what Alina Habba sees in Donald Trump. I mean he's her ticket to becoming a wealthy, big time lawyer, at least when it comes to her clients. If you can forget about all the amateur screw ups that she's made trying to defend him and her horrible court losses. But the question is what does he see in her simply as a lawyer.

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