# The Alina Habba Pit thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 11, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965 "2024-01-11T17:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/181 "2024-01-25T19:01:59Z")
Right? I admit I watched it twice. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/182 "2024-01-25T19:02:13Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Of course, if she had been exposed to Covid and though she might be contagious, why was she attending a crowded party a few hours later? Because she’s a Trump supporter? Have you forgotten 2020 already? I mean, we had whole reddits on Trump supporters deliberately screwing up COVID restrictions and everything. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/183 "2024-01-25T20:57:42Z")
She was doing a public service by exposing multiple people so they’d get covid and acquire natural immunity. No nano-octopuses or magnetic DNA involved. So she ought to be praised, not castigated. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/184 "2024-01-25T22:37:16Z")
Oh, that I understand. What I need help with is how her “screwing up Covid restrictions” somehow proves she was lying to the judge. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/185 "2024-01-26T15:42:00Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Of course, if she had been exposed to Covid and though she might be contagious, why was she attending a crowded party a few hours later? Oh, oh, I’ve got this! Because she does not give one tiny shit about other human beings on this planet. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/186 "2024-01-26T16:10:27Z")
Didn’t she tell the judge that she wouldn’t be able to attend court Tuesday because she had been exposed to Covid? She may not have been able to attend court, but she was able to attend a party. I doubt the judge was impressed with her playing hooky like some middle schooler. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/187 "2024-01-27T02:03:43Z")
30 days on Riker’s island might adjust her attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/188 "2024-01-28T16:07:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Better attorneys expect to be paid. Well apparently, so do lesser attorneys. > **[Alina Habba's firm has been paid over $3.5M by Trump PACs](https://www.newsweek.com/alina-habbas-firm-has-been-paid-over-35m-defend-trump-1862002)** > > Newsweek analysis of FEC records show that there were 28 disbursements to Habba's law firm, all categorized as "legal consulting." > A _Newsweek_ analysis of FEC records found that between February 2022 and June 2023, Habba’s New Jersey law firm, Habba Madaio & Associates LLP, received $3,586,350 from Save America and Make America Great Again PAC, two Trump-aligned political action committees. Of course, Trump himself isn’t paying a penny of this. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/189 "2024-01-28T17:01:42Z")
I wonder how the donors feel about giving money to a PAC that turns around and pays an incompetent lawyer to do a terrible job and end up with a penalty around 8 times larger than the plaintiff was asking for? I mean, are they happy that their donations are being spent on incompetence like this? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/190 "2024-01-28T17:14:03Z")
If you’re bought into the Trump As Victim trope, then you’re gleefully writing checks in the same way as the people who fund televangelists do. And I’d guess the Venn Diagram of the two cohorts has _significant_ overlap. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/191 "2024-01-28T18:27:17Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > gleefully writing checks There’s also the darker possibility that they, the victims, failed to check the appropriate boxes and are being systematically bled each and every month. Since they’re not part of the 2% dementia genius group, the losses are too hard to figure out. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/192 "2024-01-29T04:48:03Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > gleefully writing checks With tears in their eyes. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/193 "2024-01-29T10:51:12Z")
Tears of glee? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/194 "2024-01-30T16:33:16Z")
Anger. “Those darn Bidencommies wasted so much of Trump’s presidintin’ time and money, now I have to give him even more tithings to defeat them nazzies.” ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/195 "2024-01-30T16:37:51Z")
Habba’s performance in the trial brought tears of laughter to my eyes. She suffers from the same delusion of competency that is so prevalent among MAGAites and it’s a wonderful thing to see to see her incompetence, and Trump’s inability to shut the fuck up, cost his idiot minions tens of millions of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/196 "2024-01-30T18:38:37Z")
Habba had sent a letter claiming that the judge and prosecutor had once had a mentoring relationship. Both denied this, with Carroll’s lawyer mentioning sanctions, and suddenly a I Was Just Asking Questions response from Habba has been sent. What a maroon. > ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/197 "2024-01-30T18:48:14Z")
I love her footnote, she’s learned the whole mob threat spiel from her mentor - Don the Con. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/198 "2024-01-30T18:53:27Z")
The ol’ Fox News “some people are saying” tactic. We’re not saying it! We’re just reporting that other people are saying it! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/199 "2024-01-30T20:22:40Z")
love the footnote. “the judge was mean and hostile to me, waaaah”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965/200 "2024-01-30T21:06:31Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Habba had sent a letter claiming that the judge and prosecutor had once had a mentoring relationship. You mean the judge and the plaintiff’s attorney, this isn’t a criminal trial. And it’s clear she’s trying to “just ask questions” which seems risky when you’re in a legal setting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alina-habba-pit-thread/995965.md?page=11)