Trump Golf Club Settlement Hangs Alina Habba Out to Dry

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Source: daily beast




The former president’s lawyer may still face fallout for her involvement in an ex-employee’s hush money deal over harassment claims at Trump’s Bedminster club.


Published Mar. 19, 2024 4:42AM EDT



Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed waitress by tricking her into an unfair hush money deal, according to the ex-employee’s lawyer.

But the curiously worded contract left the former president’s own attorney Alina Habba—a rising star in his orbit—wide open to getting sued herself.


Trump and his top advisers are already a magnet for legal trouble. Habba, who already settled a discrimination lawsuit by her former legal secretary, is no exception. But now she faces the wrath of Alice Bianco, who was once a waitress at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the real estate tycoon’s summertime abode.


Bianco feels betrayed by Habba, who was one of her Bedminster regulars until, her lawsuit says, Habba posed as a concerned friend giving legal advice about how to address alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor—only to abuse that relationship and “fraudulently induct” her to “quickly agree to unconscionable and illegal terms.”

The alleged ploy, rapidly paced over just two weeks, gave Habba leverage to arrange a hush money deal that would curry favor with the former president and earn her way into his inner circle.

Within a month of working on the August 2021 hush money deal, Habba quickly became Trump’s leading lawyer defending him from a sexual assault defamation case by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos—replacing Trump’s nationally renowned attorney on the case. That case was later dropped.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-new-jersey-golf-club-settlement-hangs-lawyer-alina-habba-out-to-dry

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I find this story confusing--but seems Habba herself was involved in hush money. whow.

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[RainCaster]

1. The worst kind of ambulance chaser

Let's hope the NY State bar looks into this. She needs to lose her license.

[Kennah]

2. She's not succeeding at faking smart

[4lbs]

4. She's also losing "her looks" too.

Seems she is spending all her dwindling cash on Botox and plastic surgery.

Alina is starting to look like a lizard. She's pushing 40 and still trying to look 20.

I'll post some male chauvinist stuff right now (seems to be all they listen to anyways):

"Not gonna happen sweetheart. You are still 40 and fugly. You are only MAGA pretty now. Maybe you can get one of these idiot dudes to cough up cash for your high maintenance extravagant lifestyle. I would say your next 'gig' might an appearance on one of those Real Housewives shows, but you gotta con a dude into marrying your butt first. Getting a manicure and your nails done might be too much brain power for your air head."

[Kennah]

5. Orange may be the new 40 for her soon

[willamette]

7. And still

And still, DU regulars are amazed when we tell them that DU is not all flowers, rainbows, and sunshine when discussing respect, or own own diversity, equity, and Inclusion issues.

[woodsprite]

10. I thought she was trying to look like Melania. nt

[bluedigger]

3. So she duped a Trump employee into an illegal agreement, and parlayed it into representing Trump himself?

Unscrupulous and ambitious, two qualities Trump admires, no doubt.

[Delphinus]

6. Habba

really acted horribly.

[wolfie001]

8. Trump's "genius" is to know when to bail and.....

....leave someone else holding the bag. It's always worked until he chose to run and somehow be elected President.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. guess she missed that section in "Art of the Deal"??

[Lasher]

11. Locking

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