The former presidentā€™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 Trumpā€™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-presidentā€™s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.

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

Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carrollā€™s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trumpā€™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 Trumpā€™s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC Newsā€™ Garrett Haake.

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    10 months ago

    If you can explain how Trump can pardon himself from a state civil trial, go for it. Because the much simpler explanation is that Habba is an idiot.

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      10 months ago

      Well, as I thought I said, if you can say explain how an insurrectionist can be elected, Iā€™ll say how state courts donā€™t mean shit. Honestly though, I think itā€™s all academic. trump lost the popular vote by 3 million the first time, and 7 million the second. I can not see him doing any better this time around. Then again, that first win did surprise me, so fuck, who knows? Might be a little harder to launch a coup from the outside. Or maybe heā€™ll be in jail. Haha, right.

      Edit: And yeah, whatever happens, Habba is indeed an idiot.