‘It Was Unbelievable!’ Trump Attorney Alina Habba Gets Roasted By E Jean Lawyers For Stuff She Said At Trial

Tommy ChristopherFeb 3rd, 2024, 11:00 am

E. Jean Carroll attorneys Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan and Matthew Craig told George Conway some of the “unbelievable” things Trump attorney Alina Habba did and said during former President Donald Trump’s defamation trial.

Kaplan led the team that just hit Trump with a bombshell $83.3 million judgment for defaming Carroll while he was president — while Habba represented the losing side.

On Friday’s edition of Conway’s Bulwark podcast, George Conway Explains It All, Kaplan and Craig took Conway’s listeners inside the courtroom.

After describing some of Trump’s behavior, Kaplan and Craig took aim at the much-derided Habba:

ROBBIE KAPLAN: And then combined with it was like a two man show between him and Habba Like Habba would say things in this courtroom, Sarah. But George and I, only George and I can get this because we’re the same age. And we both came from big firms.

The idea that any lawyer sitting in front of Judge Kaplan would say the kinds of things if she said, like, every time she said it, my like, I think my blood pressure one.

SARAH LONGWELL: Like, give me an example of what she would say.

ROBBIE KAPLAN: So the very first day she said to him, I really don’t appreciate the way you’re talking to me.

SARAH LONGWELL: To the judge?

ROBBIE KAPLAN: To the judge! And not even that nice. The tone of voice, she was kind of yelling at him, and I literally thought I was going to have a heart attack. Not that I’ve said it, but the stress of never knowing what she was going to say and how Judge Kaplan was going to react. He’s not known as being like the sweetest judge out there. It was unbelievable what she say, man, I can’t even remember it.

GEORGE CONWAY: You know, it’s like when you’re a kid right? In your. And I never had siblings. But I’ll bet you it’s like when your sibling acts out, you’re terrified for them because of what your parents are going to do. Even though you are the angel and you’re just sitting there and it’s like, oh my God, you get, you get sick. And I’ve had that feeling in court. Not like, not like this, I’m sure.

MATTHEW CRAIG: But and I think what she did, I mean, there was I think a lot of the media picked up on some of the, the ineffectiveness in introducing evidence and asking questions and that, you know, at some point during trial didn’t become quite as surprising.

But what remains surprising is when there’d be a ruling from Judge Kaplan, and he said this multiple times, that she treated it like the opening of a conversation and tried to push back after he had ruled, asked a question that he had just said she couldn’t ask but with a slightly different way.