Habba Dabba Doo!

Normally, I wouldn’t spend too much time on one of Trump’s lawyers, Alina Habba, but she had such an impressively mind-numbing day yesterday, it’s too difficult to ignore it.

It began when the following RawStory headline and graphic caught my eye

Remarkably, the interview she gave on the PBD Podcast was even worse than the headline.

“I don’t think I’d be on T.V. or sitting here if I didn’t look the way I look,” Alina Habba said on the podcast. “It doesn’t hurt to be good looking.”

When asked by the PBD Podcast host “How much of you being an attractive, smart, do you think played into that?", Habba then went into high gear.  She noted that she is not a feminist -- which I'm sure has come as a total shock -- and added that "I can fake being smart."

She then noted, “When you’re good looking, that’s great. “People think that President Trump hired me because I’m good looking. That is absolutely not the case.”

In fairness, she's partly right about why Trump hired and party (by her own acknowledgement) wrong.  But she's also wrong about the reason she thinks she's right.

Trump did not hire Habba "because" she's pretty.  He hired her because most of the attorneys he wanted to hire turned him down.  So, he hired her because she was in the group that was all that was left.  

I mean, seriously now -- Alana Habba's background is that was general counsel for a parking garage company!  Among her other clients are those suing nursing home, a college student who wanted a refund, a former participant on The Real Housewives of New  Jersey who claimed Facebook blocked her account for wishing Melania Trump a happy birthday, and a vitamin supplement business suing Portuguese journalists.

Oh, my, yes, that's exactly the level of expertise who a former U.S. president is looking for to represent him when his entire business empire is at risk for committing fraud by overvaluing his properties.  A case, it should be noted, that Habba and the other lawyers have already lost and all that is being argued in court is the massive amount Trump will have to pay.

Further, by her own words, it was when asked why Trump hired her that she said she would rather be pretty than smart.

And we haven't even gotten to her saying, "I can fake being smart."

In fact, you can fake being pretty: plastic surgery, implants, a dab of makeup, stylish clothes, a chic hairdo and more. Furthermore, "beauty" by her standards has a very short life span before wrinkles, gray hair and younger women appear -- and fake-smart pretty much always reveals itself.  The only people "fake-smart" always fools are stupid people.  On the other hand, being actual smart lasts a lifetime.

But the thing is, Alina Habba didn't stop there.  For reasons known only to her (perhaps it's a standard parking garage legal tactic), she went after Jack Smith -- an attorney who has successfully prosecuted dicatators at the World Court -- and his team of prosecutors:

“They love having pressers," she suggested. "They love having press conferences. Getting in front. Having their moment. It’s almost narcissistic.”

Before we go any further, a reminder that this was Alina Habba yesterday on the podcast when she said this about Jack Smith and narcissism.

This is just a stunning, breath-taking utter lack of self-awareness. Combined with a Trumpian level of self-projection.  There Alina Habba is, sitting in her angel-white flouncy clothes in a self-promoting podcast interview, talking about being pretty -- and how she can fake being smart -- slamming others for being narcissistic!

This is a Saturday Night Live sketch come to life.

Meanwhile, the idea of Jack Smith (and his team) having press conferences is almost non-existent.  I can recall one press conference Jack Smith held, and I don't believe he took any questions, and it lasted fewer than 10 minutes.  He may have held another, but I don't remember them.  And I can't tell you who is on his team, since none of them would ever hold a press conference (sorry, "presser") without him.  And the concept of Jack Smith going on a podcast transcends ludicrous.  Most especially one where he'd talk about being so good-looking that that's the only reason he's been asked to be there.

And this doesn't even include when later in the very same day Alina Habba made yet another media appearance, going on Fox as part of her Narcissism Tour 2024 -- loving to get in front, loving to have her moment, loving being narcissistic -- to provide what expert attorneys are describing could be perceived as either a threat or a quid pro quo to a Supreme Court Justice when she said -- "I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them. You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place. He'll step up."  Not even bothering to refer to a Supreme Court Justice by his full name.  Assuming she knew it.

But then, again, maybe this is how things work in the down and dirty world of parking garage law.

And this is the face of the Trump defense team.  For a case they already lost.  Which may bring down his business empire.

Well, that's a shock if it happens.