# What is Alina Habba's deep game? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 9, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829 "2024-01-09T13:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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 18, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/61 "2024-01-18T16:17:54Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The real question is why Trump hired _her_, and the answer is “because no competent lawyer wants to represent him.” Also because she proved to him from the beginning that she was willing to do anything for him, including things that could (and should and still might) get her disbarred. As I said earlier in this thread: > [@What is Alina Habba's deep game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/12): > > There’s no “probably” about it; we know exactly how she got into his inner circle, and she might lose her law license for it. She targeted a Trump employee who had been a victim of sexual assault by her manager (not Trump himself) and pretended to be the employee’s friend, offering to take care of her. Then she got that person to sign away her ability to go after her attacker or Trump’s business. This was all in a scheme to impress Trump and it worked. Here’s a very thorough and entertain… She’s the kind of self-destructive sycophant he loves to surround himself with. See also: Rudy Giuliani. ---
**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 18, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/62 "2024-01-18T16:45:32Z")
I agree with the sentiment that assuming Habba even has a “deep game” is giving her waaaaayy to much credit. Her incompetence in this trial is cringeworthy. She is just as worthless as Guiliani, and doesn"'t seem to recognize it. Nor does she seem to recognize it will be only a matter of months before Trump turns on her. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/63 "2024-01-18T16:50:05Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > She’s the kind of self-destructive sycophant he loves to surround himself with. Things are so much more efficient when someone throws _themselves_ under the bus. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/64 "2024-01-18T18:31:50Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > No deep game required; she’ll never have to hunt for work for the rest of her career because the MAGA crowd will hire her. Unless she is disbarred, and that is not unlikely. ---
**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 18, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/65 "2024-01-18T19:06:13Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Things are so much more efficient when someone throws _themselves_ under the bus. Wild applause!!! Where’s that damn star? Ah! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ---
**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 18, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/66 "2024-01-18T21:47:30Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > > > No deep game required; she’ll never have to hunt for work for the rest of her career because the MAGA crowd will hire her. > > Unless she is disbarred, and that is not unlikely… Plenty of lucrative gigs working for MAGA media or other scummy employers. There is cash to be mined out of the rubes. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/67 "2024-01-18T21:48:42Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Plenty of lucrative gigs working for MAGA media or other scummy employers. There is cash to be mined out of the rubes. Oh yeah. As I have posted- if you donate your hard earned wages to a billionaire- you are a special kind of stupid. ---
**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 19, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/68 "2024-01-19T01:01:28Z")
Don the Con Jr.'s partner,Kimberly Guilfoyle, is ten years older than DJr. He might trade her in for the newer, younger MAGAnat. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/69 "2024-01-19T01:48:05Z")
Wait, do you mean to suggest that Don Jr. could possibly end up stealing his dad’s new girlfriend? Because I would pay actual money to see that! The ultimate three-way betrayal! ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/70 "2024-01-19T15:28:18Z")
I think part of the issue here is defining ‘success’. Habba may be on the verge of losing her license to practice law, but at the same time she’s now a household name. I believe she will leverage this to maybe become a talking head on Fox or as others have suggested get in on the fleecing rubes action for her piece of the scam pie. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/71 "2024-01-19T17:09:09Z")
Yeah, hers is not a legal practice career, deep game, it’s a “cash in on MAGA influencer celebrity” game. If you only became a lawyer so you could have a high paying gig, then it’s fungible with any other high paying gig. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > But he figures he can whine and pout and cry and stamp his little feet into the presidency, if enough people feel sorry for him and get out there to vote. > > And then, he figures he can wave the magic presidency wand to make it all go away. And punish those who dared stymie him. Never forget that. But yes, in Trump’s personal universe, informed by experience of his life, he is _ **entitled** _ to say and do whatever he damn pleases and have no reckoning or punishment. Problems were to be made to go away through bullying or paying off or some sort of accounting trick, and thus for someone like that it IS “so unfair” that because of his higher public profile the authorities _have_ to be seen bringing the law down on him. _“They let me (and others in similar circles) get away with it all my life, if they come down on me **now** it’s to punish me for having won bigly. Well, I’ll show them who punishes who.”_ That as his term was ending so many people were, shall we say, eagerly anticipating how once he was no longer in office he’d be quickly sued into penury by creditors, or jailed for crimes, only reinforced this in his mind. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/72 "2024-01-20T11:21:35Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > She’s an inexperienced lawyer with a very prominent client. No deep game required; she’ll never have to hunt for work for the rest of her career because … because Trump lawyers often end up not _having_ a career. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/73 "2024-01-21T02:44:11Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I think part of the issue here is defining ‘success’. Habba may be on the verge of losing her license to practice law, but at the same time she’s now a household name. I believe she will leverage this to maybe become a talking head on Fox or as others have suggested get in on the fleecing rubes action for her piece of the scam pie. In what way is she on the verge of losing her license(s)? Has she be accused of anything other than being not very good at her job? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/74 "2024-01-21T03:20:42Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > In what way is she on the verge of losing her license(s)? Has she be accused of anything other than being not very good at her job? Habba allegedly misrepresented herself as a neutral third party in a sexual harrassment claim against an employee of the Bedminster Club owned by Trump. Habba, a member of the club, approached this employee “as a friend,” convinced her to fire her lawyer, offered to give the employee advice, and convinced her to settle for a far lower amount that is typical for such cases. At the time, Habba was not representing Trump in any official capacity, but this may be how she first appeared on his radar. If the allegations can be substantiated, Habba might very well face sanctions. [https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/30/politics/bedminster-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/30/politics/bedminster-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/index.html) ---
**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 22, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/75 "2024-01-22T00:05:13Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Has she be accused of anything other than being not very good at her job? See my post, the 12th in this thread. > [@What is Alina Habba's deep game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/12): > > There’s no “probably” about it; we know exactly how she got into his inner circle, and she might lose her law license for it. She targeted a Trump employee who had been a victim of sexual assault by her manager (not Trump himself) and pretended to be the employee’s friend, offering to take care of her. Then she got that person to sign away her ability to go after her attacker or Trump’s business. This was all in a scheme to impress Trump and it worked. Here’s a very thorough and entertain… ---
**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:** [March 24, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/76 "2025-03-24T19:32:36Z")
Kiss the orange backside and reap the rewards: > **[Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appoints-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/story?id=120099632)** > > Trump on Monday named Alina Habba, his personal attorney-turned-White House counselor, to serve as the next interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/77 "2025-03-24T19:42:16Z")
nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/78 "2025-03-24T22:46:52Z")
Makes you wonder if there have ever been less qualified US Attorneys. As far as I can recall, the US Attys I’ve been aware of have at least been decently competent lawyers and administrators. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/79 "2025-03-24T22:54:57Z")
It’s the Trump administration. Every appointment strives to set records and break ground in “unqualified”. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-alina-habbas-deep-game/995829/80 "2025-03-24T23:01:55Z")
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