The former president’s legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later.

The former president’s legal team requested a trial delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She attended the party one day later.

Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, was spotted rubbing elbows with Republicans in New Hampshire on Tuesday, just the day after asking for a delay in the ex-president’s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.

On Monday, one of the nine jurors considering writer E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation suit against Trump was excused for being ill.

Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trump’s legal team requested a delay, saying Habba had been exposed to COVID and had a fever. She was not wearing a mask during the hearing.

The next day, however, Habba was sighted celebrating Trump’s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC News’ Garrett Haake.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      1222·
      7 months ago

      Let’s hope for the best case scenario: she actually did have covid and spread the virus to other totalitarian ghouls

      • takeda@lemmy.world
        9163·
        7 months ago

        This isn’t 2021 or even 2020. Catching covid right now is no longer a big deal, especially that you have access to the best doctors.

        • thesystemisdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1301·
          7 months ago

          COVID is still a big deal. People are still getting sick and dying. In the US, it’s still claiming about 1,500 lives weekly.

          Long COVID significantly affects the quality of life for many.

          The best doctor can only advocate for the best treatment. Your continued good health is dependent on your vigilance.

        • Cyberflunk@lemmy.world
          162·
          7 months ago

          Statistics indicate you are not a researcher. Stick to the like and dislike button on YouTube. Dunning Kruger thanks you for your service.

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
          162·
          7 months ago

          If we were talking about the normal populace, sure. But we’re taking about an aged and under-vaccinated group.

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            10·
            7 months ago

            Please, Republican politicians are all vaccinated. They just pushed that shit to please the plebs

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
              224·
              7 months ago

              As opposed to people who prefer cancer drugs?

              That’s about an equally flippant, equally bullshit response. Ivermectin isn’t just “horse dewormer”, it’s a pretty broad and widely used anti-parasitic, which when it was discovered in the 70s was referred to as a “wonder drug from Japan” because it works in a wide variety of mammal species (including humans, often being used to treat scabies or intestinal worms) against a wide variety of parasites.

              Right wing idiots spread the idea that an anti-parasitic is an appropriate treatment for a viral infection, but that doesn’t change that you should respect the fucking drug and all the good it has done in the last half century.

    • Methylchloroisothiazolinone@sh.itjust.works
      35·
      7 months ago

      Seems to take a couple years but a whole lotta trump lawyers end up disbarred, sued, and indicted. I mean look at rudy, cheesebro, ellis, powell, kleinhendler. Habba has already been sanctioned. Then there is the clown car carousel of lawyers leaving the legal team, no doubt when he insists they risk their license or break the law, most recently tacopino. These are the smart ones. Why any lawyer would represent diet hitler is beyond me.

    • Lon3star@lemmy.world
      26·
      7 months ago

      Seems like contempt and a large fine would be in order… Which has already happened to Trump lawyers in recent history

    • Kalkaline @lemmy.zip
      15·
      7 months ago

      Maybe, but just maybe she kills a bunch of Republicans with COVID. A net positive for society if that happened.