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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    In a sane world, yes. In the world we live on where money is the main thing that matters and everyone is afraid of what the 30% of America that supports a literal dictator will do as a response to any negative actions taken on trump is seen as an attack on their entire culture.

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      Which I believe Trump is banking on when hiring bad lawyers. To his base it looks like heā€™s being treated poorly, which will make the base more militant. That way Trump can get the SCOTUS stormed if heā€™s about to be convicted in the January 6 trial.

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          Since Trump has a reputation for not paying his legal representation, and money is what lawyers crave, Iā€™m sure Trump could get decent lawyers by paying up front.

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            Not even. He also tends not to listen to their advice and undermines his own case by blathering in public. Heā€™s not worth the headaches.