Alina Habba Is in Serious Trouble After Latest Trump Hush-Money Deal

[Tom of Temecula]

Donald Trump appears to have cut Alina Habba out of a recent legal settlement, leaving one of his most prominent attorneys vulnerable to being sued for fraud.

Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit brought by former waitress Alice Bianco, who alleged that she was tricked into an unfair hush-money deal after being sexually harassed by a supervisor. The settlement contract included a bizarre and hugely significant line that stated both “parties agree that Alina Habba is not a party to this release,” The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

This could prove dangerous for Habba, because according to the original lawsuit, she posed as a concerned friend to Bianco and offered her free legal advice about how to proceed regarding the harassment. But Habba quickly turned around, leveraging the relationship and “fraudulently inducing” Bianco to “quickly agree to unconscionable and illegal terms”—and ingratiating herself with Trump in the process, according to the lawsuit.

“My client is certainly considering suing her for fraud,” Bianco’s lawyer Nancy Erika Smith told the Beast last week. She said she was already in touch with Habba’s personal attorney.

https://newrepublic.com/post/179928/alina-habba-trump-bedminister-hush-money-lawsuit-settlement

[Ocelot II]

1. Good. She deserves it.

[Irish_Dem]

2. I bet we don't know even half the crimes Trump and his people have committed.

They are a crime syndicate.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. I just thought he must ponder each day what crimes he'd like to commit.

I think it's all that he needs to keep him going - several crimes a day keeps the conscience away.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes. He enjoys getting one over on people.

Delights in tricking and manipulating them.
Getting away with his crimes.

I agree, I think he wakes up thinking about who he can screw over that day.

[magicarpet]

3. Dealing with Team trDUMP,...

.... is like falling into a pitch black pit full of nasty and angry venomous snakes.

[underpants]

5. Everybody gets burned

Not that they don’t deserve it

Manafort
Rudy
Navarro
Cohen
Etc.

[Maeve]

4. Tiny violin time! Hearts bleed for her /sarcasm

[Attilatheblond]

6. Habba thinks she can be all things Trump needs

His reborn Roy Cohn but in a bikini strutting around the pool*



* Because Melania is SO done with that gig.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Hey-The pretty ones should know they're only there for window dressing....

They're not the real players.

[ShazzieB]

17. The smart ones probably do know it.

But Habba is not smart. Accoding to a quote from her that I remember reading here at DU (sorry, can't recall the source), she once said she'd rather be pretty than smart, because she can fake being smart. She's too dumb to know that faking smart can only get you so far.

She hitched her fake smart wagon to the wrong star when she got involved with the Orange One, and she'll end up paying for it like so many before her. How pathetic.

[Mike Niendorff]

8. Been following this for a while -- it's a BIG story

First podcast I saw bring it up is linked below. It's been on my radar ever since. Very surprised I haven't heard more on DU about this.

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MDN

[GuppyGal]

9. She sounds like the disgusting Linda Tripp nt

[Blue Owl]

10. Look how quickly Jabba throws Habba under the bus...

tRump demands complete loyalty from his lowly minions, but gives NONE in return.

Who would cozy up to such a back-stabbing fuckwad?

[DinahMoeHum]

11. . . .or into the Rancor pit. . .

[Harker]

15. One with inflated opinions of both their physical appeal and intelligence. n/t

[peppertree]

16. Thread winnah

[IronLionZion]

12. MAGA making attorneys get attorneys

[4lbs]

14. So, she got run over by the bus too? Is nothing "sacred" anymore to that golden calf "boss" of hers?

I might add something else, but because she already said she prefers "pretty" to "smart", it would likely do a moon flyover her head.

Maybe I can "fake" it.