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Alina Habba Accidentally Admits Donald Trump Could Be Totally Bought (newrepublic.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Donald Trump is in massive debt, and his attorney admitted he’s open to other strategies to pay it off.

Donald Trump hasn’t ruled out being bought by foreign powers—according to his legal team.

On Thursday, the GOP presidential nominee’s attorney, Alina Habba, failed to say that Trump definitely would notturn to a foreign country if it meant he could secure bond money to cover his $464 million bank fraud penalty.

“Is there any effort on the part of your team to secure this money through another country, Saudi Arabia or Russia, as Joy Behar seems to think?” asked Fox News’s Martha MacCallum, referring to a recent episode of The View in which Behar speculated that such a move—that is, having a president bought and sold by potentially hostile foreign powers—could be a cataclysmic national security threat.

But none of that fazed Habba, who completely sidestepped answering the question and failed the very basic test of answering “no.”

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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a job for our counter intelligence services....right? Or do they just sit on their thumbs and do fuckall like they have since 2016 while this worthless gasbag mobster sells the country out from under us?

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

They can probably act with all sorts of information.

But the problem is:

GOP obstruction
Supporters inside the house
Concerns of violent fucks

It's frustrating that a temper tantrum baby is literally committing crimes and playing chicken with police and winning.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You sure she understood the question? That was a looong sentence with a lot of words.

[-] hudson@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

This was no accident

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 7 months ago

”…It’s the demise of our country, not the demise of Trump,” [Habba] added.

Nah, I’m pretty sure it’s just the demise of Trump. I acknowledge the attempt at drama, though.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 7 months ago

Article does not support headline. Bad NewRepublic, bad!

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, click baity. I'm very sure he is open to taking money from hostile governments but she just dodged the question blurting out a mouthful of garbage.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately Uncle Valodja is in a bit of a pickle moneywise himself. Maybe try North Korea?

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Blyat!

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