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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Cheapskate

 One of the many paradoxes surrounding Trump is that he purports to be a billionaire, he has a lifelong habit of suing or threatening to sue people...and then he stiffs his lawyers. The result is that he winds up with lawyers like Alina Habba. Her main selling point seems to be that she's kinda hot, because her legal skills seem like she cribbed from reruns of Law and Order. One should never assume some sort of hidden masterplan behind Trump's erratic actions, but you almost have to wonder if they are going for an appeal based on incompetent counsel. It was Habba, if you remember, that failed to check the box for a jury trial, and now she's making a meal out of the damages phase.

Hopefully Trump will have the same level of competence in his other trials.

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