The former presidentā€™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 Trumpā€™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-presidentā€™s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather.

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

Though Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carrollā€™s lawyers agreed to continue the trial with eight jurors, Trumpā€™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 Trumpā€™s win in the New Hampshire primary by NBC Newsā€™ Garrett Haake.

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    10 months ago

    I donā€™t doubt that she has COVID. Remember back in 2020 when folks got together for holidays despite being exposed?

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      10 months ago

      Yep, one of the folks at my job (a lifelong smoker I might add) attended a Halloween party in 2020, caught covid, and died.