Kimberly Guilfoyle Begs Alina Habba To Get Trump Junior Off The Hook For Fraud

During a really bizarre interview this week, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancee of Donald Trump, Jr., asked Alina Habba to please get her fiance and his family off the hook for the fraud in New York, and Alina proudly responded that she's "on it." Neither of these people seem to realize that liability was already determined, so there is no "getting them off" at this point. Habba, as a lawyer, should have explained that part. Farron Cousins discusses this ridiculous interview.

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During an appearance this week on Kimberly Gilfoyle's podcast, Trump lawyer, Alina Haba had a bit of a weird moment, but the weird moment is kind of secondary to what she told Kimberly Gilfoyle she was doing. Let me set this up before I show you the clip. Gilfoyle, of course, wanted to briefly, I guess, talk about the ongoing fraud trial. That of course is basically resting at this point until closing arguments begin on January 11th of next year. So Gilfoyle pleaded with Haba to please get her fiance, his father, his brother, and the organization off, get them off. And Lena Haba responded and said, I am on it. Apparently not realizing that the summary judgment has already found them all liable for the fraud. So there's literally no way for her to get them off. But here is the exchange again, starts with talking about the trial and then gets progressively more weird from there. Take a look.

It's a little favor here. If you can please, uh, get my, uh, fiance and his brother off. I'd really appreciate it. Really don't wanna have to. I'm gonna have to support Junior for the rest of his life. Oh my God, what is going on with the sparkles? It was a crazy,

What's the sparkles? Oh, you know what? It's that iPhone thing I

Think. I mean, yeah, just fireworks going off behind you while you're trying to do a very serious interview about helping your clients and doing the best job you can. And you've got the firework. It's like the lawyer in the early days of the pandemic doing the virtual hearing where he had the cat filter on. Like that's kind of what Alina Haba just did. It wasn't as serious 'cause it wasn't an actual hearing, but come on now. You can do better, by the way, than, you know, using FaceTime to conduct an interview. You know, hop on Zoom like a normal person, use Skype if you have to, but FaceTime that, that's a little rinky-dink. And so, you know, do better next time, Alina. But here's the thing, this is what drives me crazy about this segment is Alina Haba was asio, please get my my fiance off.

I don't wanna support him for the rest of his life. She says she's joking about that, obviously, but I think, I don't know, Alina Haba responded and said, I'm on it. You, you're on what you already lost. You literally already lost your case. And as a lawyer, it is your responsibility to tell the family of the client because even as the fiance, you, you are still kind of considered family. You cannot give them false hope. I mean, that is hugely unethical. It's not illegal. She didn't break any rules. But giving people false hope when you have already lost because of the summary judgment against the client, that is highly unethical. You have an obligation as the criminal defense attorney for these clients to be honest and forthcoming with them. And I get that this wasn't necessarily in courtroom, and it wasn't a confidential conference, it was an interview publicly.

But you still have that responsibility as a lawyer to correct her and say, well, listen, the summary judgment was issued. We disagree with it. We'll appeal it when all this is over, but technically liability has already been determined. So I cannot get them off like you're asking me to. But what I can do is go in there, deliver just a knockout punch in closing arguments, and maybe reduce the penalty down to $0. That's what you could have said. That's what you should have said. If you had a shred of dignity, if you had any honesty in you, that's how you would've phrased that. You didn't have to make it seem like, oh, don't worry, I can totally get them off of it. Because you can't. You can't. That ship has sailed. So to me, 20 years in the legal profession, folks, this was mind blowing that she would give the client's family this level of false hope, knowing for a fact that she technically already lost this case.