Ex-Trump attorney burns former president's current lawyer for 'minor league job' in court

When it comes to big league lawyering, Trump's attorney Alina Habba purportedly has a lot ground to cover.

Ty Cobb, who was former President Donald Trump's attorney during the Mueller investigation, came out on CNN's "Out Front" With Erin Burnett swinging against what he considered Habba's bungle in the $10 million defamation case.

The case was lodged by E. Jean Carroll against Trump for accosting her character after she accused him in a firsthand magazine article of being sexually assaulted inside Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan scolded Habba for improperly reading aloud from one of those harassing messages Carroll received after publishing the account in 2019 for New York Magazine’s “The Cut” before properly entering them into evidence.

In fact, he excused the jury twice, once telling Habba, “You should refresh your memory about how it is you get a document into evidence.”

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Cobb described Habba as doing "some shocking things" and characterized her efforts as "a sort of minor league job" when attempting to introduce evidence.

But he also noted how the judge was "very patient with her."

Kaplan giving her "two opportunities to try to guide her through it himself" and attempting to even have her colleagues school her on how to enter evidence was "really sort of, you know, embarrassing."

Cobb heaped praise on Kaplan as someone who is a "well-seasoned judge," "held in high regard" and has "handled many, many cases that are a much heavier lift for a judge than this particular case"; pointing to terrorism, mob cases, and complex financial fraud like the Sam Bankman-Fried case.

"This is a very serious judge and believes that lawyers should understand that it's a privilege to be a lawyer and that they need to follow the rules and it's his duty is to make sure things proceed honorably, fairly and expeditiously," he said.

Kaplan also snapped at Habba when she repeated her determination to pause the trial proceedings to allow Trump to attend his late mother-in-law’s funeral.

“I said sit down!” Kaplan told Habba.

Habba replied, “I don’t like to be spoken [to] like that … I will not speak to you like that.”

Kaplan shot back, “It is denied. Sit down.”

Trump then stepped in saying, “Nasty guy."

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