The former president’s legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later.

Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, was spotted rubbing elbows with Republicans in New Hampshire on Tuesday, just the day after asking for a delay in the ex-president’s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.

On Monday, one of the nine jurors considering writer E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation suit against Trump was excused for being ill.

Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trump’s legal team requested a delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She was not wearing a mask during the hearing.

The next day, however, Habba was sighted celebrating Trump’s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC News’ Garrett Haake.

  • @bostonbananarama
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    Is she trying to fast track disbarment? Lying to the court is an excellent way to, at a minimum, receive a suspension.

    • @dhork
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      She’s counting on getting disbarred, it’s a key part of getting her next gig as a legal analyst on Fox. All she has to do is bleach her hair and the job is hers.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      I don’t doubt that she has COVID. Remember back in 2020 when folks got together for holidays despite being exposed?

      • @0110010001100010
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        Yep, one of the folks at my job (a lifelong smoker I might add) attended a Halloween party in 2020, caught covid, and died.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      She’s gonna get a warning from the judge at most.

    • @[email protected]
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      Could she argue that she had obligation to keep COVID away from the court, but not this right wing party?