To no one's surprise, Trump's monstrously incompetent and unqualified lawyer Alina Habba pulled the same dumbass stunt on Fox News (first three minutes is all you need).
These people simply cannot help but lie.
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
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It is a fact that conservatives are incapable of good faith.
Anyone who willingly works for Trump is a willing liar.
Habba doesn't appear to know even the basics of how a court works. When the AG calls Trump as a hostile witness, the AG gets to cross-examine him. This means leading questions requiring short answers, usually yes or no. Trump doesn't get to ramble on, and the judge was quite right to shut him up.
Once the AG is finished, it's Habba's/Kise's turn to ask their client open-ended questions to allow him to explain things in detail. Tellingly, Habba had no questions for Trump on direct examination. She's counting on the ignorance of trumpists to play silly games on Fox. Any competent interviewer would have asked her why she had no questions for her client. Surely if Trump were innocent, he would have some reasonable explanation for why the AG had it all wrong.
I wonder if some of his lawyers are corporate lawyers without trial experience. Has he ever had testify in court in the past?
ValJ
Habba has no trial experience, and it shows. Kise is also not a trial lawyer. As FL Solicitor General, he was an appellate lawyer, which is a different skill set.
Neither Habba nor Kise is a NY lawyer, which is why they don't understand the function of the judge's law clerk, a unique feature of NY courts. The law clerk is actually a fairly senior lawyer, who acts as an assistant to the judge, reminding him of prior inconsistent testimony, looking up points of law, and so on. Engoron is an old-school judge, so his clerk passes him notes. This freaks out Trump's lawyers who see some sort of conspiracy. More tech-savvy judges communicate with their clerks online, so nobody sees them communicating.
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