Two bulky businessmen with eponymous corporations accused of crimes against the nation share a unique problem, a new political analysis contends.
As the fictional George Bluth put it in the television sitcom “Arrested Development”: “I got the worst f---ing attorneys.”
On Friday, one day after Alina Habba publicly pressured a Supreme Court to do her client a solid, National Review analyst Jeffrey Blehar argued these words also apply to former President Donald Trump.
“She stuffed her foot straight into her mouth and so far down her throat that she’s better off just giving it one last push if she wants to walk on two legs again more quickly,” Blehar wrote.
“I’ve never seen anything quite so destructively stupid as Habba’s musings to Sean Hannity on how the D.C. case would play out in the Supreme Court.”
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For Blehar, Habba’s performance is easily comparable to that of Henry Winkler, who plays the Bluth family attorney prone to proffering “destructively bad legal advice.”
On the show, Zuckerkorn was likely to admit he’s not “super prepared,” ask clients if a skin condition “looks contagious,” and declare in his own defense, “Wow, I did not get that page.”
During Trump’s now-$370 million civil fraud case, Habba was accused of breaching attorney-client privilege, argued her client didn’t need to be prepped for trial because he was “incredibly intelligent” and declared she could “fake being smart.”
The key difference, Blehar writes, is that while Zuckerkorn represents a fictional California real estate mogul, Habba represents a real-life New York real estate mogul running for America’s highest elected office.
This seriousness of the situation spurred Blehar to issue Habba a very serious warning: “It is your job to be smarter than your idiot client.”
Read the full analysis here.
