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highplainsdem

(55,527 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 11:25 AM Mar 24

Trump Appoints 'Alina Habba, Esq.' to Top DOJ Job: 'She Will Fight Tirelessly'

Source: Mediaite

President Donald Trump announced he was appointing his personal lawyer, Alina Habba, as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey in a Monday morning social media post.

Trump said Habba would replace John Giordano in the role ,and congratulated Giordano on his appointment as U.S. ambassador to Namibia.

The president posted:

-snip-

Habba was quick to thank Trump for the appointment. In a post on her X page, she shared a screenshot of Trump’s announcement and commented, “Time to make New Jersey great again! LET’S ROLL.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-appoints-alina-habba-esq-to-top-doj-job-she-will-fight-tirelessly/



Ron Filipkowski posted Trump's Truth Social message on both Bluesky and Twitter with the comment, "This will be an unmitigated disaster."

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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,419 posts)
2. I just saw that. Joe.My.God. noticed it a bit earlier, and I was looking for a LBN-acceptable source.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 11:30 AM
Mar 24

Here's J.M.G.'s thread:

Trump Appoints Habba To Top New Jersey DOJ Post
March 24, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump cultists

“It is with great pleasure that I am announcing Alina Habba, Esq., who is currently serving as Counselor to the President, and has represented me for a long time, will be our interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, her Home State, effective immediately!

“Alina will lead with the same diligence and conviction that has defined her career, and she will fight tirelessly to secure a Legal System that is both “Fair and Just” for the wonderful people of New Jersey.

“Additionally, John Giordano, who has done a terrific job as the interim U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, will now be nominated as the new Ambassador to Namibia!

“Congratulations to Alina and John!” – Trump, posting this morning to Truth Social.

{snip}

By the way, the alinahabba account on Bluesky? Uhhh, no. That's not really hers.

Retrograde

(11,061 posts)
14. Chris Christie, Cory Booker
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:00 PM
Mar 24

the people who convicted Menendez, that kid who was mean to him in 4th grade - pretty much the whole state of New Jersey for not voting for him. IMHO, this is another example of his putting outward appearances above competence or qualifications.

Does the position require confirmation by the Senate?

IbogaProject

(4,293 posts)
17. It is his summer residence
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 04:22 PM
Mar 24

The state took his Bedminster Golf Club's Liquor licence. And he has been in trouble for labor violations there.

Ocelot II

(124,345 posts)
4. OMG!
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 11:34 AM
Mar 24

The parking garage lawyer with nothing to recommend her but cleavage and attitude - she's the one who got fined almost $1M for the "completely frivolous" lawsuit vs. Clinton. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1150298957/donald-trump-frivolous-lawsuit-fine-alina-habba-clinton-comey-middlebrooks The criminals in New Jersey have nothing to worry about except aggravation - she's an absolute moron.

Attilatheblond

(5,679 posts)
8. She's also the one who forgot to ask for a jury trial
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 11:55 AM
Mar 24

And then pouted thru the trial as Trump went down.

Ocelot II

(124,345 posts)
9. Yup! A real piece of work, that one. And there's this:
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:00 PM
Mar 24
"Ms. Habba, this is Evidence 101," Kaplan told Habba.

Carroll's attorneys then had the next ten objections sustained as Habba tried to ask questions.

"Did you not hear me?" Kaplan asked Habba when she talked over one sustained objection.

Habba appeared to make a mistake on Wednesday when referring to documents that had not been put into evidence. Kaplan ordered a recess in proceedings so that she might "refresh" her memory on how to.

"No, we are not going to read out loud a document not yet in evidence," he said. "We are going to take a break here and you're going to refresh your memory about how you get a document into evidence."
https://www.newsweek.com/alina-habba-donald-trump-trial-lawyer-evidence-1862119

Attilatheblond

(5,679 posts)
12. But she was willing to strut around the Mar A Lago pool in a bikini after Melania told him 'last time for me'
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 01:26 PM
Mar 24

So.... Major DEI hire!

struggle4progress

(122,850 posts)
11. Would You Rather Be Smart Or Pretty?
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:20 PM
Mar 24

By Mark Herrmann on February 12, 2024 11:03 am

... I’ve spent hours of my life in rooms with exceptionally smart people, and I’ve spent hours in rooms with stupid people. I’m here to tell you this, Alina: It is easy to fake being smart — in a room filled with stupid people. But it extraordinarily difficult, and perhaps impossible, to fake being smart in a room filled with smart people. Smart people know a fool when they hear one.

Anyone who says otherwise has probably never been in a room filled with smart people. Or perhaps they’ve been in a room filled with smart people and, like my Ninth Circuit advocates, not realized that they had embarrassed themself by flaunting their stupidity.

... “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”

You should have heeded that advice, Alina ...

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/02/alina-would-you-rather-be-smart-or-pretty/

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