{"id":57082,"date":"2023-06-11T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57082"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:49:21","slug":"trumps-attorney-tells-fox-news-hes-not-facing-reality-hes-denying-the-prospect-of-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57082","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Attorney Tells Fox News He&#8217;s Not Facing Reality, He&#8217;s Denying the Prospect of Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No rational observer is ever going to characterize Donald Trump as someone who has a firm grip on reality. He lies with extraordinary abandon, and constantly presents a version of the world that is in stark contrast to the one that the rest of us live in. However, it is still rather astonishing that his own lawyer takes the position that he is something less than cognizant of the circumstances he faces and the legal peril that is looming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump's Attorney Tells Fox News He's Not Facing Reality, He's Denying the Prospect of Prison%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57082\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-prison.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Prison\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After being indicted on 37 felony charges ranging from obstruction justice to violations of the Espionage Act, Trump is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57067\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffering a severe mental meltdown<\/a><\/strong> that is evident in his remarks in public and online. And he isn&#8217;t getting much help from his legal team, two of whom he dismissed immediately after the indictments were announced. One of his remaining attorneys, Alina Habba, has been making the rounds of right-wing media to attempt to state his case. But she has not been particularly effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57058\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HUH? Trump\u2019s Lawyer Accuses Special Counsel Jack Smith of \u2018Scaring\u2019 Mark Meadows Into Testifying<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning Habba was interviewed by Shannon Bream on Fox News, who actually asked a pretty good question. She did not, however, get a very good response&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bream:<\/strong> &#8220;I know you&#8217;ve been with the president. What is his mood? I mean, a conviction here on any number or multiple of these charges could be decades in jail. Has that sunk in?&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Habba:<\/strong> No, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s thinking of it that way, and I don&#8217;t really think that&#8217;s a realistic way to think about this case. He&#8217;s done nothing wrong. He said that this is completely politically motivated. It&#8217;s election interference at its best by a political opponent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kn8uhMxPNos?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For any criminal defendant to approach a case this serious with the view that it&#8217;s not <em>&#8220;realistic&#8221;<\/em> to consider the prospect of decades in prison if convicted, is bizarre, to say the least. It&#8217;s an admission that Trump isn&#8217;t facing reality at all. And the defenses that Habba floats (<em>&#8220;politically motivated,&#8221; &#8220;election interference&#8221;<\/em>) are equally distant from reality. But then again, she is not an especially qualified lawyer. She went on to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So to his credit, and the world should understand, an indictment is a one-sided document. He has a defense. The defense is real. He had the Presidential Records Act, which only he has in play. Hillary Clinton didn&#8217;t have that. Biden didn&#8217;t have that. And we&#8217;ll put that defense on. The team he&#8217;s going to have will be strong and knows exactly what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Habba&#8217;s assertion that the Presidential Records Act is a defense ignores the fact that Trump&#8217;s indictment doesn&#8217;t charge him with anything related to that. It is never even mentioned. What&#8217;s more, it wouldn&#8217;t exonerate him if it were included. And her deflecting to Hillary Clinton and President Biden is just plain pathetic. Whatever crimes she thinks they committed, it wouldn&#8217;t have any bearing on Trump&#8217;s guilt or innocence. Although, she has apparently coordinated with Trump as to what their legal strategy should be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57077\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crybaby Trump\u2019s Indictment Defense Strategy Revealed: Whine Endlessly About President Biden<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Habba also praises Trump&#8217;s legal team, which currently consists of just one newly named lawyer, Todd Blanche, who has yet to actually assemble a team. So she can hardly pretend to know that Trump&#8217;s team <em>&#8220;knows exactly what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/em> However, another lawyer who has had some history with Trump &#8211; his former Attorney General, Bill Barr &#8211; has an opinion that diverges significantly from the Trump defense. Barr now says about the Trump indictment that <em>&#8220;If even half of it is true, HE&#8217;S TOAST!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BARR (on Trump indictments): If even half of what it says is true, HE&#39;S TOAST!  &#8230; He was totally wrong that he had the right to have those docs. &#8230; And he kept them in a way at Mar-a-Lago that anyone who really cares about national security, their stomach would churn at it.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S92yB7QhUd\">https:\/\/t.co\/S92yB7QhUd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1667953777251614720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Trump is running around crying about being a victim and the target of <em>&#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/em> persecutors who hate him. He&#8217;s trying desperately to rile up his cult followers and incite them to commit more acts of violence on his behalf. So far, that isn&#8217;t working. But it&#8217;s still too soon to rule out the harm that could be done by the crackpots who have devoted themselves to his malicious MAGA movement. He is a clear and present danger to the nation, and has already predicted a political apocalypse should he be held to account for his crimes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56585\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Warns of \u2018Death and Destruction\u2019 if He is Indicted for Crimes that He Actually Committed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No rational observer is ever going to characterize Donald Trump as someone who has a firm grip on reality. He lies with extraordinary abandon, and constantly presents a version of the world that is in stark contrast to the one that the rest of us live in. However, it is still rather astonishing that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1475,1,1201,8,16],"tags":[1512,67,554,33,377,123,1364],"class_list":["post-57082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-general","category-justice","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-alina-habba","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-justice","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-prison.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eQG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57544,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57544","url_meta":{"origin":57082,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Shill Holds Pity Party for Trump Accomplices Who &#8216;Just Did What the Boss Said&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/28\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Having become the first American president to be criminally indicted is apparently not a fulfilling enough historical achievement for Donald Trump. 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