CNN: Upfront With Erin Burnett: 'She's a loser': Ex-Donald Trump White House Lawyer On Donald Trump's Attorney Alina Habba'

Source:CNN- left to right: ex-Donald Trump lawyer Ty Cobb & perhaps Trump University law graduate Alina Habba.

"Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb explains to CNN's Erin Burnett why he thinks Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba handled defamation trial in a "mafia" manner." 

From CNN

Ty Cobb on CNN Upfront With Erin Burnett: 

So I think the three-week delay is, is -- if you've just take a setback, given the -- given the magnitude of the decision involving a former president and an unprecedented constitutional claim, it's not -- it's not difficult to imagine that the court would take, you know, three weeks to a months to perfect an opinion. I hope that's what's going on.

It is also possible that the court could split two to one not on whether or not Trumps arguments are valid because they're clearly invalid and will be rejected, but on the issue of whether or not the claim should be heard at this time. As you recall, there was an amicus opinion citing the (INAUDIBLE) case that said that -- you know, that no interlocutory appeals should be heard pre-conviction. The court asked him questions about that early in the hearing but then they reverted to the famous exchanges with regard to the logical extent of the arguments put forth by Trump's attorney --

 I think -- I think if this -- if this goes through the end of next week without a decision, that's a concern. I think a 2-1 opinion invites en banc review, which I think otherwise would be rejected. That would add additional delay. And also a 2-1 opinion would make it more likely that the Supreme Court might take this up.

My own view as we've discussed before, along with, you know, several other constitutional scholars, although many people disagree, is that the Supreme Court is unlikely in the -- in the event of a strong D.C. circuit opinion is unlikely to take this case up pre-conviction.

No, I believe -- I -- so do I think that's possible? Yes. I think that's -- I think that's very possible. I still think it's 60/40 that the case will go forward in late May or June, assuming an opinion within the next week.

And I do believe that, you know, it is possible to get the trial done, but obviously the appeal would not be completed before Trump -- if he -- should he win, would be inaugurated. And at that point, he will have the ability to order his Justice Department to dismiss the appeal. And, you know, this case will be as though it never existed.

He's not going to pardon himself. It's sad to see journalists still insisting that's a possibility because, A, it was never a possibility and, B, its unnecessary because all he has to do is direct the Justice Department to dismiss the -- dismiss the appeals.

But, yeah, I think he's not going to be incarcerated in advance of inauguration should he win.

Erin Burnett: Alina Habba, Trump's lawyer who lost the case in the E. Jean Carroll $83 million defamation settlement. He -- Trump has indicated he's looking for new representation for his appeal. She represented him and she said a recent interview. She talked about that and what it was like working with him.

Here's what she said... 

ALINA HABBA, DONALD TRUMP'S ATTORNEY: Winning always helps. He doesn't want anybody on his team representing him that's, you know, going to keep failing, of course. Loyalty, it's something he talks about all the time, but loyalty in not a cryptic mafia way.

Erin Burnett: You worked for him. What do you -- you know, for the White House, so, you know him. What do you think about how she's handled the case?

TY Cobb: I think she's handled it in the mafia way. She's done his bidding. She's articulated his political narrative of victimization and unfairness in the judicial system and made some outlandish claims, including the conflict claims, and she lost. So she's losing. I'm not surprised that Trump is looking for appellate representation.

From CNN

From what my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about Alina Habba back in November. 

"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

CNN legal correspondent Paula Reid referring to Alina Habba: "She has a duel role. She is Trump's attorney on the record, she worked for him on his civil cases. But she's also his spokeswoman. You can see her working in both of those roles today." 

From The New Democrat

"A former attorney for former President Trump criticized his lawyer Alina Habba in a CNN interview Friday, after a jury ordered the former president to pay $83.3 million in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll.

“I would regret having her represent him,” Tim Parlatore told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins. “I mean, I do think that in both of these trials, he was essentially undefended. And I think that it could have turned out differently.”  

From The New Democrat

I heard a similar opinion last week on MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhl, where she was interviewing a legal affairs reporter. And that reporter said that the reason for the delay on Donald Trump's immunity claim is that even though they're already 3-0 on whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution, simply because he was once President of the United States. But they're working out a final, unified ruling, so there isn't any dissent in their final opinion, so the the Supreme Court wouldn't even have to take this case up and could just dismiss Donald Trump's appeal there. 

Ty Cobb thinks the Washington appeals court will rule 3-0 against Donald Trump on his immunity as well, but maybe they'll go 2-1 on whether they even have jurisdiction on this appeal or not, before conviction. I'm hoping and just based on evidence of the case and how all 3 judges presented themselves, that they go 3-0 both on jurisdictional and immunity grounds, so the Supreme Court wouldn't need to take this case up at all. And they can go straight to trial and Donald Trump can feel like any other criminal defendant in America, when the evidence and his own witnesses are stacked against him, but for some reason he decides to go to trial anyway and takes his chances. 

As far as what Ty Cobb said about Alina Habba: well, if you've been following The New Democrat since November, you know what this blog thinks about her. I mean MAGA militants/conspiracy theorists/escaped mental patients, are already trying to argue that Alina was simply a Joe Biden or DOJ plant into Donald Trump's legal world to sabotage his cases. And that's why he lost his New York fraud case and his case against E. Jean Carroll. So even if MAGA is smart and honest enough to know how big of a loser, at least as a lawyer, that Alina Habba is. 

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