“Glaringly obvious” incompetence on display as judge tells jury to “disregard everything Ms. Habba just said”
Trump lawyer Alina Habba struggled through her cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the defamation case against the former president, repeatedly admonished the attorney for running afoul of his court rules and general procedures.
Prior to Carroll’s testimony, Habba requested an adjournment so that Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.
“The application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it. None. Do you understand that word? None. Please sit down,” Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, told Habba about the motion that he already denied.
Kaplan repeatedly interrupted Habba’s questions, including when she began to read from a document that had not been formally entered into evidence, sending the trial to a recess.
I think it can be both. She’s trying to throw the case out (because that eats into “valuable” campaigning time) and she’s also trying to make a circus so they can claim persecution, both of which she is failing spectacularly at.
Ultimately, he’ll lose no votes, but I’m not interested in that for this particular case. I want to see Trump get the book thrown at him for being a whiny little baby who pathologically can’t stop defaming the person he raped.