'Not sending their brightest': Trump lawyer mocked for calling Manhattan a state
Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba appeared to slip up in an interview on Fox News, complaining that it's not fair Trump should be criminally tried with a jury from a "blue state" like Manhattan.
The former president faces charges of felony business fraud for allegedly concealing hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal an affair, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg characterizes as a scheme to defraud voters in the 2016 election out of essential information. Trump denies the payments were illegal and further denies the affair even happened.
"He should win, if he's given a fair jury, if he's given a fair court," said Habba, who previously defended Trump in much of his civil litigation and got into courtroom drama with the judge. "If he's not in Manhattan, which is a completely blue state, where they only pulled blue state members of the jury on purpose, well, that's a different game."
Habba, who once claimed that she would rather be pretty because "I can fake being smart," was promptly buried in social media mockery for her slip of the tongue.
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"Lara Trump thinking there are 81 states is starting to make more sense," wrote Deven Green, a Canadian comedian who plays the satirical persona of "Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian." She is referring to Trump's daughter-in-law, the newly-minted co-chair of the Republican National Committee, bizarrely claiming the GOP has election security lawsuits pending in "81 states."
"I would say they’re not sending their brightest but sadly they are," wrote the parody account "Jimmy Madison."
"She’s obviously taking up Norman Mailer’s old cause of New York City becoming its own state, no longer under control from Albany," wrote Media Matters for America writer Eric Kleefeld.
Others simply mocked Habba for continuing to ignore the fact that crimes are tried in the jurisdiction where they allegedly happen.
"Commit crimes in Idaho next time then," said writer Michael Freeman.