Dec 18, 2023
Trump Lawyer Finally Admits To AGGRESSIVE Retribution Scheme
Donald Trump's lawyer in his New York civil fraud trial, Alina Habba, admits to Trump Republicans' plans to retaliate against Democrats and Trump's political enemies if he were to return to presidential power on stage at a right-wing conference. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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That is what they do.
They hide what they've
done by going after Trump.
Look at the shiny ball, everybody.
Don't look at us.
Well, they've got one year, and then we're
gonna be looking at them deep and hard.
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>> [APPLAUSE]
>> I'll tell you right now,
if I'm in Washington,
I'll be relentless too.
>> Speaker 2: That's Alina Habba,
who I believe is a real estate lawyer.
Why exactly she would be investigating
Democrats in Washington, I don't know.
I also don't know why she's
speaking at that rally.
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When was the last time you saw
the lawyer for a president or
a presidential candidate
giving stump speeches?
A little bit weird.
Gives you a little bit of an idea of
what they see, the role of these people.
They're part of a performance,
a show, a fascist TV program.
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And that's what she's there for, to say
we're investigating Trump as a shiny
ball to distract from our own failures as
they literally try to impeach Biden and
cannot even explain what it's for.
And something,
something Hunter Biden, too.
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So again, utter projection.
They're literally just saying what their
strategy is while also reminding us,
as if we needed a reminder,
that if they get into office,
that's what they're going to deliver for
the people that put them there.
Not economic gains, not an improvement
to the quality of the life.
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Demonization and persecution of Democrats.
That's all they're literally promising,
Francesca.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, and
it's incredible to call him a shiny ball.
Obviously, he's sort of
a deflated little scruffy, but
no, he's been chewed up by the dog.
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Yeah, but he is a distraction.
He's a distraction for
Republicans as they continue their massive
wealth transfer from the poor to
the rich in the form of tax breaks.
And as they put all of their stooges,
who are basically paid for
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by the billionaires of this country
in the highest court in the land.
So speaking of a distraction, I mean,
what a trojan horse Trump was, is and
has turned out to be for the can.
You can Liz Cheney, this all you want.
You can disown Trump, a man.
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He's given you everything you ever wanted.
Is it a little sashy?
It's funny because it's almost like
that was really your coded language this
entire time.
The language of Reagan,
the language of Nixon.
Trump's just all those people, as I've
said, exhumed and stitched together and
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come to life using lightning.
It was very disgusting.
>> Speaker 2: I like the Sci-Fi
turn at the end there.
I appreciate you doing that in
terms that I can understand.
>> Speaker 3: Thank you.
>> Speaker 2: Anyway, look, we can laugh.
We can laugh at her very purposefully
using the term, the phrase deep and
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hard there.
She fully understands conservative men in
that audience and what role she's supposed
to play but we should be very worried
about the willingness of so many people.
It's not just Trump doing this.
It's people like Alina Habba, who,
I asserted that she was
a real estate lawyer.
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I looked it u, she worked as a lawyer for
her husband's parking garage company.
She defended students looking to get
their tuition back from universities
they think defraud.
But then, my God, there's an opportunity
to be a part of this movement.
I can elevate myself by clinging
on to this fascist persecution
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that they're setting up.
This is how a democracy falls,
not because of one over inflated blowhard,
but because of a willingness of
a bunch of people who know better or
should know better to help dig
the grave for a democracy.
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