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Alina Haba had a very good year.
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Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, whose signature professional achievement is a million -dollar sanctions order for filing a lawsuit that no reasonable lawyer would have filed,
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landed a contract guaranteeing her more than $50 million over four years.
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Her new employer is a Florida company called Concord Partners.
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It has no public profile, and nobody seems to know what it does.
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It was created just days before she signed on by a 27 -year -old daughter of a Venezuelan billionaire banker,
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a banker who pled guilty to campaign finance violations and really, really wanted a pardon.
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Two months later, Donald Trump gave that banker a full and unconditional pardon, and when she signed that $50 million deal,
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Habba was still calling herself an acting U .S attorney for the District of New Jersey,
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despite a federal judge saying she was nothing of the kind.
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All of which means that Alina Habba, or Alina Habba Milden, as she's now known, is never leaving the news cycle,
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which is great news for me personally, because I have been writing about Habba for so many years,
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and I really thought it was over for us when she married a billionaire and quit pretending to practice law.
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But no, Alina Habba is back, baby.
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She's in a public knife fight with a fellow denizen of MAGA World, and she is in this metastasizing cronyism scandal,
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and I will be writing about this woman for years to come.
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Hooray for me.
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Back in 2020, Alina Habba was running a tiny law firm in New Jersey.
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She did some family law, some commercial real estate.
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She served as general counsel to a chain of parking garages owned by her husband, which is a perfectly respectable living.
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But it's not the traditional resume for a lawyer who's going to represent the most famous defendant in America
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and serve as chief prosecutor in New Jersey.
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In fact, nobody would have ever heard of Habba if what happened in Jersey had just stayed in Jersey, but it didn't
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because a 21 -year -old waitress was being sexually harassed by her manager at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster,
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New Jersey, and Alina Habba saw the chance to launch herself into Trump's orbit.
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According to a lawsuit filed in 2023, she sidled up to that server at the breakfast bar
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and said she had heard about what was going on and could help.
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The server did have a lawyer, but Habba love -bombed her and then convinced her to fire her counsel, after which Habba whipped up a settlement,
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fobbing the server off with a paltry $15 ,000
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and got her to sign a nondisclosure agreement that was facially unenforceable under New Jersey law.
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It even had a clause saying
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that the woman would have to pay $1 ,000 a day in penalties
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if she ever talked about being harassed by her manager after which Habba ghosted the woman.
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Now that is all kinds of wrongs,
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starting with the fact that it's entirely unethical to approach a party who is represented by counsel and discuss a pending case.
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The server successfully sued to void the agreement and asked the judge to refer Habba to New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.
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In March of 2024, the club paid the former employee $82 ,500, and a few months later,
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Habba quietly entered into her own settlement with the woman.
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But by then, Habba was Trump's personal lawyer, deeply ensconced in his world because Trump was
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so impressed with Hava's ability to deal with sexual harassment cases that he hired her to handle a lawsuit brought by former
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Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, and then he tasked her with fending off defamation and sexual abuse allegations from E.
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Jean Carroll, which was a four -year shit show, thanks in large part to Alina Hava's wacko lawyering,
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like the time she tried to exclude testimony of another woman
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Trump was accused of sexually assaulting because it doesn't count if it's on an airplane, or the time she coached
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Trump during his deposition
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when he mistook a picture of Carroll whom he had said was too unattractive to sexually assault for his second wife, Marla Maple. So, yes.
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And do you recall when you first saw this photo?
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At some point during the process, I saw it.
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That's, I guess, her husband, John Johnson, who was an anchor for ABC.
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Nice guy.
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I thought, I mean, I don't know him, but I thought he was pretty good at what he did.
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I don't even know who the woman, let's see.
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I don't know who.
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It's Marla.
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You're saying Marla's in this photo?
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That's Marla, yeah.
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That's my wife.
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Which woman are you pointing to?
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Here.
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The person you just pointed to was E .J.
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Carroll.
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Who is that?
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Who is this?
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And the person, the woman on the right, is your then wife?
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I don't know.
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This was the picture.
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I assume that's John Johnson.
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Is that Carol?
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Because it's very blurry.
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Were the times she tried to countersue Carroll for defamation because the jury only found
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Trump liable for sexual abuse, not rape.
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That got the trial judge to put out an order describing her client as a digital rapist twice.
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Or the time she and her partner got a remedial civil procedure lesson in open court
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when they tried to argue that the judge was bound by another trial judge's ruling in a different federal district court.
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Or the time the judge had to explain to Haba
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and her associate that only one lawyer at a time gets to cross -examine the witness.
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Or the time she forgot to raise presidential immunity claims for three years
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and then tried to brush it off because you can't litigate when you're a sitting president.
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I told you, I have written about this woman.
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Because Trump just kept on defaming E.
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Jean Carroll, there were two defamation trials.
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After the first, the jury found him liable for sexual assault and awarded the plaintiff $5 million.
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The second time around, after he'd proved that $5 million would NOT BE ENOUGH TO SHUT HIM UP, THE JURY AWARDED CAROL $83 MILLION.
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I GUESS HAVA WAS PROUD OF THAT BANG -UP JOB SHE HAD DONE IN COURT
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BECAUSE SHE JUST STOMPED OUT UNTO THE COURTHOUSE STEPS AND SCREAMED ABOUT THE RIDICULOUS JURY.
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BEFORE I WALKED INTO COURT, THAT JUDGE DECIDED THAT EVERY SINGLE DEFENSE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD, WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO RAISE IN FRONT OF THE JURY.
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IT IS IN WRITING AND I ENCOURAGE THE JOURNALIST, THE REAL JOURNALIST TO TAKE THE MINUTE TO LOOK AT HIS ORDERS.
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A few weeks later, she argued that her client was so rich he shouldn't have to post bond during his appeal,
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which is very much not how any of this works.
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Like I said, a lot of bangers in the Elena Hoppe back catalog.
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In September of 2021, she sued
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The New York Times and Trump's niece
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Mary Trump for $100 million over a Pulitzer -winning story about the Trump family's tax schemes.
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A New York judge tossed that case and ordered
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Trump to pay the Times nearly $400 ,000 in legal fees.
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Two months later, Habba threatened to sue the Pulitzer Prize Board,
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who were refusing to revoke the 2018 prizes awarded to The Times and The Washington Post for covering the Russia investigation.
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But Habba's masterpiece was the 108 -page troll suit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and 29 of their closest friends,
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alleging that they did the RICO to Trump with the Russia investigation.
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The complaint was filed in Florida, where very few of the defendants lived, because Florida is a state in the United States,
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which was an important one.
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That case was so patently defective, Habba
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and her client wound up sanctioned to the tune of a million dollars for making all those people hire lawyers
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and show up in court in Florida.
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But you gotta fake it till you make it, I guess.
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If Habba is faking being smart, she apparently fooled Donald Trump because when he returned to the White House in 2025,
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Habba came with him as counselor to the president.
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Two months later, he made her the interim U .S attorney for New Jersey despite the fact
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that she had zero prosecutorial experience.
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Haba spent a lot of time in office threatening various
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Democratic politicians in New Jersey.
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She actually charged Newark Mayor Raz Baraka with trespassing at an ICE detention center.
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Ten days later, she dropped that case and then charged
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Representative LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal agents.
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Haba also spent a lot of time parading around, kitted out like a member of a SWAT team.
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But it's one thing to play dress up.
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It is quite another to be a real U .S attorney.
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Because the Constitution gives the Senate the right to advise and consent to the appointment of a federal officer,
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including the chief prosecutor in every federal district.
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And there was no way Habba was getting confirmed in the Senate thanks to the blue slip rule.
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That is, if both home state senators refuse to turn in their blue slips for a judicial or U .S attorney nominee,
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that nominee does not move forward.
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And New Jersey's two
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Democratic senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, were never gonna bless Habba's nomination.
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Now, when there was a vacancy, the judges in a federal district can appoint someone who can stay indefinitely as U .S attorney without confirmation.
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But they refused to appoint Habba, which former Attorney General Pam Bondi characterized as rogue judges threatening the president's core
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Article II powers.
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Habba then announced that she was staying on the job as acting U .S attorney.
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But a federal judge said that was entirely illegal, and the Third Circuit agreed.
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Finally, in December of 2025, Habba tapped out with this defiant tweet where she promised that you can take the girl out of New Jersey,
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but you cannot take
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New Jersey out of the girl, after which she promptly moved to Florida.
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But Habba did not actually leave the Justice Department, or not immediately.
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The day she resigned, Bondi announced that Habba would stay on as senior advisor, overseeing all the U .S attorneys in the country.
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So she got kicked out of one U .S attorney's office and promoted to supervising the other 92, which is some impressive failing up.
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And that is where she was sitting when the Venezuelan billionaire got his pardon.
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But before we get to that...
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We gotta talk about a guy called Rick Grinnell.
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Rick Grinnell is a longtime
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Trump loyalist who served as ambassador to Germany, where he caused one diplomatic incident after another during the first Trump administration.
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Grinnell is so intensely toxic that
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Trump actually used him as a battering ram to force through the confirmation of John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence.
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See, the Republican -controlled
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Senate did not want to confirm Ratcliffe as top spy because Ratcliffe, who was then a congressman from Texas, had so egregiously fibbed about his resume.
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But under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act,
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the president can let someone who has been confirmed by the Senate temporarily occupy any vacant role that requires Senate confirmation.
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So Trump parked Grinnell in the DNI spot, working on the assumption that
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Senate leader Mitch McConnell would be
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so horrified at the prospect of Grinnell running the nation's intelligence apparatus that he would tap out and confirm Ratcliffe, which is exactly what happened.
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This time around, Ratcliffe is CIA director, where he's what passes for an adult in the room.
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And Grinnell is back, too.
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In January of 2025, Trump gave him the amorphous title of Envoy for Special Missions.
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Grinnell promptly started trying to broker deals in Venezuela, much to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's annoyance.
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So within a few weeks, Grinnell got shunted off to run the Kennedy Center,
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where he did such an amazing job that the place wound up shut down and mired in vicious litigation.
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Here, have a video.
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Grinnell and Haba used to be friends.
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In fact, she met her new husband, a Turkish investor named Torhan Mildan, at the Kennedy Center.
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Mazel tov to the lovely couple, by the way.
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Love brought you together to this moment to unite your destinies.
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But while most of MAGA World was at Habba's wedding, Grinnell was conspicuously absent, which was exceptionally weird,
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because Grinnell and Mildan used to be good buddies when Grinnell was doing whatever he was doing in Venezuela.
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According to the New York Times, there's some dispute about Mildon's age.
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Some outlets report he's 29.
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Others say his documents show him as 25.
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But however old he is, Torhan Mildon's first politically advantageous marriage in 2021 was to the daughter of a construction magnate close to Turkey's President Erdogan.
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That launched his career.
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And shortly after that, he got very friendly with the leadership of the Democratic Republic of Congo
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and even got himself a Congolese diplomatic passport.
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Then he moved on to Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro's money man, Alex Saab, handed him a contract to run the state -owned cement plants,
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as well as a shrimp production and export business, which had recently been seized from a supporter of the opposition political party.
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Saab is a controversial figure who was indicted for money laundering in his NATO Colombia,
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extradited to the U .S in 2021 for money laundering charges here, and then got repatriated to Venezuela in 2023 in a prisoner swap.
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And remember when I said that Grinnell was messing around in Venezuela last year?
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Well, Grinnell was buddies with Mildon, and they both supported the normalization of the U .S government's relationship with President Nicolas Maduro.
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But then Grinnell got turfed out to the Kennedy Center, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio got his preferred policy,
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which was to kidnap Maduro and also Saab and bring them to the U .S to stand trial.
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That was very bad news for Mildon, because when Maduro fell, he lost his patron.
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And the new Venezuelan government under President Delce Rodriguez moved to yank Mildon's contracts for those expropriated businesses.
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But then Mildon allied himself with someone who had a lot of clout in American politics.
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Like he told
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Forbes, in my grandfather's time, know -how was very important.
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Now, know -who is important.
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And suddenly, he had a new girlfriend with a direct line to Donald Trump.
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According to the Times, the Venezuelan government noticed and paused the revocation of Mildon's business contracts.
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What a lucky break.
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Then on October 8, the New York Times started asking Mildon questions about his business in Venezuela.
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And the very next day, Habba stormed into the Oval Office in Washington and accused
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Rick Grenell of making millions of dollars in Kennedy Center donations disappear.
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According to Habba, Grenell told Mildon to wire $17 .6 million to a Texas defense company called TXAT in May of 2025.
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Grenell used to work for TXAT, at least as a contractor, in 2024 for, but he says he has no ongoing affiliation with the company.
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No one is talking about what the rest of the money was for,
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but Habba says that $5 .6 million of it was supposed to go to the Kennedy Center and never got there,
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and as proof, Mildon's lawyer sent the White House a text message in
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which Grinnell supposedly said he wanted to make Mildon the American face down in V, meaning Venezuela.
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He also sent documentation that the money was transferred, although they redacted the identity of the account, which wired the funds.
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In fact, the originating account was associated with the Congolese government.
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The Kennedy Center checked its books and found that Milden had pledged $270 ,000, not $6 million or $17 million,
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and he hadn't paid the $270 ,000 either until the Times called this month to ask why.
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Grinnell called this whole thing absurd and said, I've never asked for one cent to be sent somewhere else pretending it was for the Kennedy Center,
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and I've never received any payment from him at all, and he says he.. never sent the American face down in V -text either.
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Trump tasked White House counsel
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Will Scharf with getting to the bottom of this.
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Scharf was a guest at Habba's wedding last month and worked with her defending
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Trump in the E.
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Jean Carroll cases.
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But take it in light of the story the Times was working on,
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that Oval Office visit looks a lot like an ever to knife Grinnell before he could knife her,
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which brings us at long last back to that $50 million deal Habba negotiated for herself.
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And hey, what are the odds? because this one involves Venezuela, too.
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Julio Herrera Velotini is a billionaire banker from a Venezuelan banking dynasty that dates back to the 14th century.
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In 2022, he was indicted for bribery in Puerto Rico, along with the island's former governor, Wanda Vasquez, and an FBI agent named Marc Rossini.
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The government spent nearly three years prosecuting that case, and the judge rejected every motion to dismiss.
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But then, Then in August of 2024, Herrera hired Chris Kyes, another of Donald Trump's personal lawyers.
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And later, Herrera even brought in Elon Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro, which kind of seems like overkill.
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In May, the government informed
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Judge Sylvia Carreño -Cole
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that there had been a productive meeting in Washington, D .C with members of the prosecution team
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and senior officials in the Justice Department with an eye toward resolving the matter short of trial.
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And suddenly, the bribery charges disappeared.
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Instead, each defendant would plead guilty to a single misdemeanor campaign finance violation.
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Judge Carreño -Call was pissed.
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She called the new charge a mere slap on the wrist compared to what the defendants had been facing.
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But alas, the government's decision to shift gears at the eleventh hour is allowed
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because ultimately the government decides how it will exercise its prosecutorial discretion.
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So Herrera and Vasquez were allowed to plead to the misdemeanor and walk away more or less unscathed.
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But according to the New York Times, Herrera still really wanted a pardon, and so he dispatched Kais to seek a grant of clemency from Trump.
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Herrera's daughter Isabella, who is a U .S citizen, also made $3 .5 million in donations to the MAGA Inc.
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Super PAC.
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Previously, her only contribution had been $20 to Pete Buttigieg through Act Blue.
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Then on October 22, 2025, Isabella Herrera set up a company in Florida called Concord Partners.
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It is not entirely clear what Concord does, but days later, it hired Alina Habba as general counsel for $10 million a year for four years,
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plus bonuses for a guaranteed total of more than $50 million,
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which is pretty good pay for a lawyer who is not even licensed to practice law in the state of Florida.
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I mean, for comparison, the highest paid in -house lawyers in the world are making
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like $15 to $25 million a year at places like Google and Apple and Zoom.
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But perhaps more to the point, when Habba signed that deal, she was still calling herself the acting U .S attorney for New Jersey.
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Later in December, after she flounced off with that tweet about not taking the girl out in New Jersey, she became a special government employee.
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A special government employee is someone the government brings in temporarily for no more than 130 days in a 365 -day stretch.
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And because Congress wanted these outside experts to be able to serve without quitting their day jobs,
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SGEs are allowed to keep non -government employment as long as the agency signs off
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and they steer clear of any government matter that touches their private gig.
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Habba started her side hustle at Concord on January 1, 2026.
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Herrera was set to be sentenced at the end of that month, but in a remarkable stroke of luck,
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Donald Trump pardoned him and his co -defendants on January 15th.
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The Justice Department pinky swears that Habba didn't talk to anyone there about a pardon,
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and the White House says she had nothing to do with it either.
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On X, Habba sneered, Big scoop after leaving public service, I've gone back to doing what I have done for my entire career, being a lawyer.
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Had she left public service at the time, though?
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Hmm.
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Habba calls it intentional, pathetic, and obvious that we're using her maiden name for clicks, because if there's one thing
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Republicans cannot abide, it's deadnaming.
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And Mrs. Milden says any insinuation that my employment, all of which has been vetted and disclosed to the DOJ,
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had anything to do with securing a pardon is false and defamatory.
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And if you can't take the word of a lawyer who sanctioned a million dollars for filing a frivolous lawsuit, who can you trust?
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Okay, so brass tacks.
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Is any of this legal?
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Well, the pardons for Herrera and Vasquez are untouchable.
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The Constitution gives the president the power to pardon offenses against the United States, full stop, and no court can undo that.
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They are in the clear no matter what happens.
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But selling a pardon is a different story.
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Federal law makes it a crime to corruptly give or receive anything of value in exchange for an official act,
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and a pardon is clearly an official act.
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The problem is proving it because the Supreme Court has spent the last decade chipping away at federal corruption law,
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and these days it's functionally impossible to hold a public official criminally liable for selling office unless he's on tape saying,
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give me money and I will do this official act in exchange.
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Thanks, Chief Justice Roberts.
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The Justice Department says that Habba Milden didn't talk to anyone there about a pardon,
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and she gives all the credit to Chris Kyes for making their mutual client's problem go away.
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She was just hired as the world's most expensive part -time attorney, nothing to see here.
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There are DOJ ethics rules, though, and here the timeline matters.
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When Habba negotiated this deal in October of 2025, she was not a special government employee.
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She was a full -time federal prosecutor in New York who
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had nothing to do with the case pending in the District of Puerto Rico.
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But in December, she became
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Pam Bondi's senior advisor overseeing all the U .S attorney's offices in the country, including, presumably, the U .S attorney's office in Puerto Rico,
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which was still prosecuting her new employer's father and even special government employees are bound by the criminal conflict of interest statutes,
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which bar them from participating in any government matter that affects the financial interests of their outside employer.
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Habba says all of this was vetted and disclosed to the DOJ, but I would note that the people in charge of that vetting,
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Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Cash Patel and White House Counsel Will Scharf, are all her friends.
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They were all guests at her wedding.
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And of course, none of this is happening in a vacuum.
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According to the Times, Trump's second term has spawned an entire pardon industry with wealthy criminals paying well -connected lawyers,
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fixers, and lobbyists to get to the president, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars or even a million dollars a pop.
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Nikola founder Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years from defrauding investors.
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He and his wife gave more than $1 .8 million to Trump's re -election effort in the fall of 2024,
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and in March of 2025, he got a pardon.
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Paul Walczak was sentenced to 18 months for pocketing millions in his employees' payroll taxes.
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A few weeks after his mother went to a million -dollar had dinner for MAGA Inc at Mar -a -Lago, he got a pardon.
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Binance founder Chen Ping Zhao pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an anti -money laundering program,
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and then Binance got cozy with the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, and in October of 2025, Zhao got a pardon.
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The only person who has faced any real blowback for taking cash for access is Kimberly Guilfoyle,
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who was asked to resign as ambassador to Greece after the Wall Street Journal published her text demanding
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that a Trump donor named Eric Dieters put $100 ,000 to her American Express bill.
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Guilfoyle is represented by Jesse Beenel, whose firm handled
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Trump's appeal of the sanctions levied against Haba in the Clinton -Rico case
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because there are exactly five lawyers in Trump land and they divide the work up between them.
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And now Haba's off the market since she'll have her hands full doing whatever it is she's doing for the Herrera family.
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It's meteoric rise from a small -time attorney from New Jersey who sidled up to a waitress
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and got her to take a $15 ,000 settlement and sign an illegal hush money agreement.
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Since then, Habba's been sanctioned for a frivolous lawsuit, lectured on the rules of evidence in open court,
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and kicked out of a U .S attorney's office by a unanimous
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Third Circuit, and she's never been richer or closer to power.
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So congratulations, Alina.
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And congratulations to me, because it sure sounds like we will be talking about Alina Habba for years to come.
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I had this platform, this community, and the experience.
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Not to get rich, trust me, there are easier ways to make money than starting a law practice.
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But we did it because access to justice shouldn't be a luxury.
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Because finding the right legal representation shouldn't feel like playing Russian roulette with your future.
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And when you work with my firm, you're not just getting a lawyer.
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You're getting a team that understands that behind every case is a real person with real stakes.
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If we can't represent you or you're in a state where we don't practice,
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we'll take the time to try to match you with an attorney in my personal network of lawyers,
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a national network of some of the best lawyers in the country who actually specialize in what you're going through, located right where you are,
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not just whoever happens to be available.
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So if you're dealing with a personal injury, a car crash, a data breach, sexual harassment, a social security or workers' comp issue,
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give us a call at the number on screen or click on the link below.
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Now, I can't represent everyone that watches this channel.
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I wish I could, but what I can do is make sure that when you need legal help,
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you have somewhere to turn to that you can trust.
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So whether it's me handling your case or the incredible attorneys we've partnered with,
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you'll get the same principles of honesty and education that we bring to every video.
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And if you're dealing with a legal issue and you're not sure where to start, check out the link in the description.
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Let's have a conversation about how we can help you find not just a lawyer, but the right lawyer for your situation.
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Because at the end of the day, that's what this is all about, making sure that when life gets complicated,
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you don't have to face it alone.
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Which is why when you need a lawyer, you don't just need a legal team, you need the Eagle team.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Trump's Lawyer Keeps Breaking The Law”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Habba, lawyer, trump. This video has 383 sentences and 5298 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:04. The speaker talks fast, about 203 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pardon noun | /ˈpɑːdn̩/ | Forgiveness for an offence. |
| hire verb | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. |
| counsel noun | /ˈkaʊn.səl/ | The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation. |
| lawsuit noun | /ˈlɔˌs(j)ut/ | In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution. |
| defendant noun | /dɪˈfɛnd.ənt/ | In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another. |
| server noun | /ˈsɝvɚ/ | A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network. |
| assault noun | /əˈsɔlt/ | A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc. |
| banker noun | /ˈbæŋkəː/ | One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for… |
| billionaire noun | /ˌbɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/ | Somebody whose wealth is at least one billion (10⁹) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). |
| knife noun | /ˈnaɪ̯f/ | A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge… |
| journalist noun | /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/ | The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly. |
| jean noun | /d͡ʒiːn/ | Denim. |
| radar noun | /ˈɹeɪˌdɑɹ/ | In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves… |
| sexually adverb | /ˈsɛksjʊəli/ | With respect to sex (either of the two divisions of organisms). |
| confirmation noun | /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | An official indicator that things will happen as planned. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wind up verb | /waɪnd ˈʌp/ | To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely. |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. | |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| dress up verb | To put on special or fancy clothes. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I don't even know who the woman, let's see.
- Which woman are you pointing to?
- I've been using it for years.
- How do I know if this attorney is any good?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to be · used to work |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been writing · I've been using |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have written · has been confirmed · I've never asked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was created · being sexually harassed · being harassed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 57 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, ethics /ˈɛθ.ɪks/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, corruption /kəˈɹʌpʃən/, donation /doʊˈneɪʃən/, negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
- Long words — get the stress right: confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, visibility /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pardon, hire, counsel.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.