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As I said, I don't play the crystal ball game and avoid bold assertions (something lots of users here should emulate). It seems Habba is dropping the "mentor" avenue. “Since Ms. Kaplan has now denied that there was ever a mentor-mentee relationship between herself and Your Honor, this issue has seemingly been resolved,” Habba wrote the judge. But in a footnote to that sentence, Habba added: “There are, however, various other issues relating to the Court’s conduct, including potential bias hostility towards defense counsel, that will be raised in post-trial motions and on appeal.” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/30/e-jean-carroll-lawyer-rejects-trump-judge-conflict-concern-from-habba.html

And you repeat that as a "fact"? No I don't. Unlike a lot of people here, I tend to refrain from hasty dogmatic assertions and wild predictions. Just yesterday, I was told on this thread that Alina Habba would never appeal. Now, one day later, okay she is appealing but it holds no water… Looking forward to tomorrow. How about waiting a bit before making bold statements? Sure, the media are saying Trump is toast, but they are the same media who have been saying this since 2015. How about learning from past mistakes? Surely by now you should know that wanting something doesn't make it happen?

Indeed!

I've been with my Thai wife for 13 years. First marriage, currently aged early 40s.

That is certainly the case for most long-lasting couples I know. Gotta have a + and a -.

The relevant part pertains to the unnamed source which, according to Alina Habba, claims the judge was Carroll's lawyer's "mentor", which suggests a strong relationship, and if that is indeed true, the fact that it was not disclosed can constitute a violation and grounds for dismissal. It seems unlikely to me that Trump's team would only find this out now. They probably intentionally refrained from revealing it previously.

Trump's lawyer did not disclose it. In her motion, Habba cited a recent New York Post article which quoted an unnamed source suggesting Roberta Kaplan had considered Judge Kaplan her "mentor" at the law firm. https://www.newsweek.com/alina-habba-conflict-judge-kaplan-e-jean-carroll-lawyer-1865169

Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan worked together in the early 1990s. A source indicated that the judge was once Roberta Kaplan’s mentor. This is called a conflict of interest and constitutes grounds for a reversal in an appeals court.

I can't compete with that level of analysis, it's white flag waving time for me.

E. Jean Carroll has said that she’s certain that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. But the 79-year-old advice columnist does not know the year. It may have been 1995. Or it could have been later. https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/carroll-trump-trial-verdict-rape-sexual-assault-memory.html#:~:text=But the 79-year-old,in the spring of 1996.

Biden doesn't control anything.

Trump attorney Alina Habba blasts judge after $83 million E. Jean Carroll decision "I couldn't prove that she didn't bring in the dress, there was no DNA, there was no experts — my experts were denied, two of them — two of them — were denied to come in," Habba said. The attorney said they plan to "immediately appeal" the jury's verdict, blaming the result on partisan politics. https://gazette.com/news/wex/trump-attorney-alina-habba-blasts-judge-after-83-million-e-jean-carroll-decision/article_ccb066b5-33a2-575c-a845-5bdda5804fc4.html This sham trial will get tossed out down the road, but at least the TDS junkies are having their weekly fix.

Congrats to the users of this forum for their relentless wishful thinking and unwavering faith in a Trump imprisonment and disappearance, year after year. A few amusing reminders from 2018 and 2020 below.

"They" means the political and media establishment, not Danderman123.

E. Jean Carroll cannot even remember what year she was supposedly "raped." What's left of the US justice system is a a political apparatus worthy of Soviet Russia.

Have they "finally got him this time?" Please don't break anything when he gets reelected.

Joe Biden is currently the most unpopular US president in modern history — what ails his presidency? https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/joe-biden-is-currently-the-most-unpopular-us-president-in-modern-history--what-ails-his-presidency-18536391.htm Yes, Trump can win the 2024 election. Here are four reasons why https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yes-trump-can-win-2024-election-here-are-four-reasons-why-2023-12-12/

I think a lot of people have learnt a valuable lesson. The authorities, the "science", the "experts" do lie, and the "conspiracy theorists" were actually right. Think about how far the Overton window has shifted over the past three years. A reminder below from two years ago, when a call to ban the unvaccinated would get 12 likes and 2 thanks. Today it would get 30 laughs.

How about just accepting that some people have a different view from yours?

To press the flesh means to shake hands and mingle with people, not grope and smell children's hair and necks whilst whispering stuff in their ears.

I've never done this. Have you? These kids and this woman really seem thrilled by his grandfatherly charm. [Screenshots from the Sky News Australia video posted above]

You're not showing yourself in a favourable light by defending what is shown in this video.

"A guy that acts like the typical grandfather is hardly a major threat to the world." If you think this is normal behaviour, then you have a problem: Sky News Australia: 'Creepy' Joe Biden sniffs children’s hair