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[–] foggy 131 points 1 year ago

"we're going to need a list of all of the people you know..."

[–] mriguy 91 points 1 year ago

She really needs to meet new people.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She's his attorney... Literally paid to say such things.

[–] dhork 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope she got her money up front, he doesn't exactly have a good track record of paying his lawyers on time.

[–] StarManta 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t believe that’s true for a second. Only someone unethical would do that, and I have it on good authority that he is very ethical!

[–] IphtashuFitz 15 points 1 year ago

The best ethics! Perfect ethics. Nobody is more ethicier!

[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they're not actually paid to lie, you know.

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[–] baldingpudenda 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everytime someone describes trump with "best, most, ever" in a positive statement I always assume it's trump telling them specifically to say that. He has the best words after all.

[–] aJazzyFeel 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know, that she is getting paid and all. But damn... Thats just degrading. No amount of money would bring me to tell such a embarrassing lie. Alone the word "most" puts every other of her social interactions into scale. She basically said: "Me, my mom, my husband?, my kids?, my best friend, they are all ethically worse than Trump." This person seems to have no values.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

she is getting paid

Oh, was this lawyer actually smart enough to get payment up front? Because we know Trump normally doesn't pay his lawyers after the fact. If she got paid, she has no values.

[–] IonAddis 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my first thought there is...what sort of crowd do you usually run with then?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, she is a lawyer. That's what they do.

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most lawyers, yes, are heartless capitalist fee-gouging sociopaths. But some of us do a lot to help the helpless, to our own detriment. We give everything for the underdog fighting these snakes.

So, while I don’t take the generalisation personally—because it’s largely true—please never forget the minority of broke empathetic legal practitioners toiling away behind the scenes seeking actual justice for clients.

[–] ghostBones 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Following that logic, it means she doesn't know any ethical people.

[–] VoterFrog 8 points 1 year ago

Well she is surrounded by lawyers buh dum tiss

[–] kescusay 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, odds on when she leaves the team and starts telling people what a shit-show he really is?

[–] billiam0202 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, odds on when she leaves the team and starts telling people what a shit-show he really is?

The second she has a book published and starts doing a promo tour for it, and not one minute before.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so sick of that shit. These people should be charged with being complicit for hiding crimes.

[–] Riccosuave 7 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, she may end up getting charged for lying on her affidavit that there were no more classified documents at Mar a Lago. She used some legalese AKA weasel words that may protect her, but it remains to be seen. She was, however, already sanctioned for over $1 million dollars, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was disbarred by the time all is said and done.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve met sewer rats with a better sense of ethics.

Where did trump even find this lawyer? The 8th circle of hell?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Bottom of the barrel. All of his other lawyers have dumped him.

[–] jeffw 8 points 1 year ago

Considering so many people refused to work for him, it’s possible. P

[–] jordanlund 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Says less about Trump and more about everyone else she knows...

[–] moistclump 3 points 1 year ago

Unless… she’s lying…

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Trump is really running out of qualified attorneys. This lady only got into law a decade ago and up until now has represented reaility stars in petty civil cases. This is who Trump has representing him over any of his current indictments? That's wild!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He turned them over, he cooperated as he always does.

Yup, that's totally a lie ...

[–] TwoGems 7 points 1 year ago

I thought lying in court was illegal?

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[–] MicroWave 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, praised the former president for being “the most ethical American” she knows after he was hit with fresh superseding charges that accused he and his handlers of deleting footage sought by the federal government in a classified documents case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you're just quoting but that should really be "accused him" rather than "accused he"

[–] MicroWave 5 points 1 year ago

Nice catch. Perhaps this is how we know this article wasn’t written by an AI lol.

[–] 2piradians 12 points 1 year ago

45 has a real penchant for surrounding himself with people who say things he wishes were true rather than the actual truth. I doubt he knows (or cares) there's a difference.

Hopefully that's a good thing in the sense that his legal team is so incompetent and out of touch with reality, they will get steamrolled (just as all his election fraud nonsense did).

[–] TwoGems 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many rubles did she get to say that

[–] cashsky 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Adeptfuckup 10 points 1 year ago

Why only the most unethical lawyer would say something so ridiculous.

[–] CADmonkey 10 points 1 year ago

I wonder if he will be ethical enough to pay her?

[–] synceDD 9 points 1 year ago

"Attorney wont insult their client on cam" thank you for the hard hitting journalism

[–] Cruxifux 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, I love a good burn on Americans.

[–] DonaldTrumperino 6 points 1 year ago

Only the best, most honest people work for the most ethical, stable, genius.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"He's at least as ethical as I am!"

[–] Captain_Patchy 5 points 1 year ago

She's either the best liar on the planet or the most ignorant person on the planet. Neither bodes well for the spray orange turd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

She really should be disbarred for that statement, since it shows that she is too separated from reality to effectively practice law

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

key part of the phrase is "out of people she knows". man I realize it pays a lot but having to constantly isolate yourself less you get to know literally aaaaannnnnnnyyyyyyoooooonnnnnneeee!

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