Alina Habba Has SO MANY Grounds For Appeal In New York. But Shhhhh They’re Secret, So Don’t Ask.

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Whereas Donald Trump is busy on Reality Social calling Justice Arthur Engoron and New York Lawyer Basic Letitia James “Stalinists,” his attorneys are crafting their enchantment of final week’s $355 million civil fraud verdict. ALLEGEDLY.

On what grounds will they be interesting?

“What aren’t my grounds on enchantment is a greater query,” Trump’s sparklemagic lawyer Alina Habba quipped to Newmax’s Rob Finnerty earlier this week, including that the ruling was “insane, however the madness makes it straightforward to enchantment.”

“I perceive it was the intent of the Democrat-funded AG to attempt to put Trump out of enterprise, it’s simply not gonna occur. And that’s in all probability devastating to her,” Habba went on.

She repeated the vow to frustrate the AG’s depraved plot to Fox’s Martha MacCallum.

“Her objective is frankly not going to succeed,” Habba snarked.

MacCallum mistakenly prompt that posting a bond was a prerequisite to an enchantment, fairly than a way of staving off collections, and puzzled the place Trump would possibly provide you with near half a billion {dollars}, together with pre-judgment curiosity.

“You possibly can put up a bond, which is an possibility. You possibly can inform the choose that you need to put aside the decision as a result of it’s insane, which that is,” Habba went on, nonetheless refusing to specify precisely what grounds her consumer may need for reversing the ruling.

“I’ll by no means present my playing cards, Martha, you realize I’m too good to try this,” she mugged.

Ummm … OKAY.

Within the occasion, telling the choose to put aside the decision as a result of it’s “insane,” proved to be an ineffective technique.

“The Lawyer Basic has now taken it upon herself to submit a proposed judgment to the Clerk of the Courtroom with out discover to the Defendants and with out conferring with Defendants’ counsel, clearly hoping that the Clerk will problem the Proposed Judgment earlier than Defendants also have a likelihood to evaluate it, not to mention submit a proposed counter-judgment,” Trump’s lawyer Cliff Robert shrieked in a letter to the courtroom on Wednesday protesting the AG’s request to enter the judgment as per the courtroom’s verdict and demanding “ample time to submit a proposed counter-judgment.”

Noting that the language of the proposed judgment “precisely tracks” his personal order, Justice Engoron invited the defendants to “let me know, by 5pm right this moment, should you object in any particular methods, and the way your counter-judgment would differ.”

“Given the foregoing, I see no want for a movement or convention on this,” he added.

Robert responded by blathering concerning the lack of exigency, since ret. Decide Barbara Jones stays in place as monitor of the Trump Group, making certain that fraud ranges stay at a minimal.

However the courtroom was not persuaded.

“You will have failed to clarify, a lot much less justify, any foundation for a keep. I’m assured that the Appellate Division will defend your appellate rights,” the courtroom wrote yesterday earlier than signing the judgment.

In the meantime, the AG is vowing to gather instantly.

“If he doesn’t have funds to repay the judgment, then we are going to search judgment enforcement mechanisms in courtroom, and we are going to ask the choose to grab his belongings,” she advised ABC Information.

Absolutely Alina Habba is about to bust out her a million grounds for enchantment any second now, wowing the First Division into placing a cease to this partisan witch hut. Or possibly she’ll simply preserve shouting “INSANE!” on rightwing media because the State of New York places a lien on 40 Wall Road.

Who’s it who mentioned it’s higher to be fairly than sensible as a result of sensible may be faked?

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore the place she produces the Legislation and Chaos substack and podcast.