How Alina Habba 'tried to light a fire that never quite kindled' in court: legal expert
January 17, 2024
Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba did her best to come out swinging for her client at the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial — but kept smacking into walls as she asked questions Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled inappropriate, said legal expert Lisa Rubin on MSNBC Wednesday.
This included when she tried to call for a mistrial over supposedly deleted evidence, and when she tried to establish Carroll illegally possessed a firearm.
"Lisa, you were in the courtroom," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "How did things go down?"
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"Alicia, if before the lunch break, you saw fireworks, today you saw Alina try to light a fire that never quite kindled, and the reason I say that is because at virtually every angle that she turned, there were objections to the questions that she asked, either because they were argumentative or she was trying to revisit subjects that the judge has already ruled this jury must accept as true," said Rubin.
"In some cases, the objections were as basic as to the way that she formulated the question, because she was assuming certain facts that weren't yet in evidence," Rubin noted.
"All in all, I left thinking this," she added. "Alina has some serious presence. Even her detractors can't deny that, but she is lacking some fundamentals in basic courtroom mechanics that made today's examination of E. Jean Carroll a whole lot less effective than she promised it would be in her opening statement, which as we say, was fire."
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