The blockbuster remark came moments before closing arguments in Trump’s second trial in a case brought by E. Jean Carroll

A federal judge threatened Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba with jail time on Friday, after the former president’s lawyer kept contesting a ruling after it had been issued.

“You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup,” senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan warned. “Sit down.”

The bombshell remark came moments before the start of closing arguments in Trump’s second trial in a case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

  • Flying Squid
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    I honestly don’t think she does. Why would she risk being thrown in jail for that? She did multiple things that made the judge reprimand her.

    • @chonglibloodsport
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      Rudy Giuliani was a prosecutor and deputy attorney general. He was also well known as “America’s Mayor” after rallying New Yorkers in the wake of 9/11. Yet that didn’t stop him from ruining his own life committing crimes to protect Trump.

      It’s really bizarre!

      • Flying Squid
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        I agree, but Rudy has never said anything remotely like this-

        “Somebody said to me ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said ‘Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart’.

        https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alina-habba-trump-lawyer-court-b2481296.html

        And I don’t think that statement was part of some sort of complicated 4-D chess to protect trump. The easiest explanation is she’s stupid but pretty and willing to work for free. What more could Trump ask for?

        • @psycho_driver
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          She’s not wrong. I have someone in my extended family who was a willowy 5’10 very attractive woman with no kids who couldn’t have out-mathed my at the time sixth grader (really, no hyperbole, I was present for real world examples of this happening) who is the CFO of a company in San Diego with a beach front condo.

          • @MotoAsh
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            810 months ago

            Well, we both know she didn’t choose smart.

    • Neato
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      1510 months ago

      She knows the judge has on kid gloves for the trial so as not to give any reason for an appeals court to overturn. So she’s pushing her luck. Also makes get famous for “sticking it to the judge” in Republican circles.

        • @[email protected]
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          410 months ago

          There is nothing to gain by concluding its stupidity. The Republican party harbors malice; Trump harbors malice. A razor doesn’t supersede evidence.

          • Flying Squid
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            010 months ago

            Do you really think Habba is playing 4-D chess? She’s working for a man who never pays his lawyers.

            • @[email protected]
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              610 months ago

              That’s because she’s angling for a job with one of the Republican news networks.

              She didn’t take the case because she thought she would get paid directly for it.

            • @[email protected]
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              So either she’s smart enough to pass the bar and stupid enough not to understand how payment works or she’s not looking for financial compensation.

              The bar isn’t that hard, but it’s hard to be that dumb and still pass it.

    • @[email protected]
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      1010 months ago

      Because it really isn’t a risk at this point. She’s been in contempt of court many times already.

          • Flying Squid
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            110 months ago

            I wouldn’t call him smart either.

            • @rifugee
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              I think the use of “misunderestimate” already implied that, eh?

            • NoIWontPickaName
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              Yeah that’s why he acted like that. To get people to just think he’s just an old southern fool.

              • @[email protected]
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                210 months ago

                Yes, the Connecticut-born, Yale-educated southern good old boy was probably not smarter than his Vice President, but he wasn’t anywhere near as dumb as he seemed