Alina Habba Offers Bizarre Excuse For Why She's Such A Bad Lawyer

Trump lawyer Alina Habba offered up what was supposed to be a comforting statement for Trump supporters, but it came across as an excuse as to why she's not doing a very good job as a lawyer. Habba told Newsmax that the Secret Service will keep Trump out of prison, and she admitted that this is what she tells people when they are "panicked" about Trump facing justice. But this also sounds like her backup plan for not caring about doing her job well, as she appears to think she has a Secret Service safety net. Farron Cousins discusses this statement.

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During an interview on Newsmax this week, Trump lawyer, Alina Haba, who, you know, was kind of removed from the rest of the legal cases and just made to be kind of a spokesperson slash legal counsel for his political action committee, but she's still representing him in the New York fraud trial for some reason. But anyway, Alina Haba goes on Newsmax, and she's asked by host Carl Higby. Carl Higby says, how, how is this, could they even possibly throw him in jail? What would that look like? It's a real possibility. It's a valid question, right? Could they throw Trump in jail? How would they throw Trump in jail? What would it look like? Higbee wants to know, and, you know, whatever I do q and as, that's probably the, the biggest and most frequent question I get. Like, could they, how could they, would they, will they, can they, and Alina Haa folks? Don't worry, she's got an answer. But in my opinion, her answer wasn't exactly about how they throw Trump in prison. Her answer to me seemed more like an explanation as to why it doesn't matter that she sucks at her job as Trump's lawyer. Here's how she responded to Higg be's question.

So Higby again says, could they even possibly throw him in jail? What would that look like? And Haba said, laughing. He's protected by the Secret Service. Period. Uh, so I always tell people when they're panicked, listen, he's protected by Secret Service, number one. Uh, number two, he did nothing wrong. Like, okay, before I continue, ki kind of seems like number one, as his lawyer should be, my client did nothing wrong. Like that should be the first thing, not, Hey, don't worry if he goes to prison, the Secret Service has his back. Right? They're not gonna let him go to jail. Oh, oh, he probably didn't do anything wrong either. Like, may maybe flip those two, you know, just, just offering a little advice, Alina. But she continued and things get dumber here. So when people go to jail because they've done something wrong, do we have crooked situations in and out of court? Absolutely. Could they try? Probably. But it won't work because there is still a trial process. There are still facts and unfortunately they're not going to win on the facts.

That's what I just read you this, this quote from her. That's not even a, that's not even a thought. Like, so when people go to jail because they've done something wrong, do we have crooked situations in and out of court? Absolutely. Could they try? Probably. But there's still a trial process. You sound like a, a, a 10 year old trying to describe how a criminal trial works. Like those aren't real sentences that have real meaning. Like, I don't even know what you're trying to say. You ask yourself a question in your answer to his question, and then you don't even really answer the question that you asked of yourself. But here's where it gets even dumber, if you can believe it. Secret Service will always protect President Trump. That's the truth. They have to wherever he is, but it's not, it's not even something we think, to be honest, because this is all political. It's really not. It's all political. It's really not.

Hmm.

There's no criminal acts that he's done. And the court says differently. There's no civil wrongs that he's done. Unless making money for banks is a civil wrong.

I mean, that, that's, that's it's Trump derangement syndrome at best. I'm not worried about him. He's not worried. And the American people shouldn't be worried. Um, we're not worried, by the way, but I it's the Secret Service thing, right? Like, ah, don't worry about him. The Secret Service is gonna protect him. Ah, the logistics of having the Secret Service have to be in a prison 24 7, which I believe is kind of what she's hinting at trying to say that it's not physically possible to put this guy in prison. Now, the way I interpret that, and maybe you have a different interpretation and that's fine, but I'm reading this again as just her excuse for being like, ah, it doesn't matter if I screw up in court, right?