Donald Trump is notorious for having a high lawyer turnover rate, but it seems that Alina Habba, who had only joined his legal team in 2021, fell out of favor with him quicker than anticipated. Roberta Kaplan, E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer and someone who’s no stranger to going head-to-head with Trump in court, revealed a particularly perplexing anecdote that involved the former president throwing a tantrum targeted at Habba. The reason? She offered Kaplan’s team lunch.
In an appearance on “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell),” Kaplan recalled a time when her team was at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property for a deposition for a separate case. When lunchtime rolled around, Trump insisted on working, but Kaplan wasn’t having it. “And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain,” she said. “He said, ‘Well, you’re here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you’re going to do for lunch?'” She told him that Habba had kindly offered to feed them, but Trump responded by having a meltdown. “At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,” she added. “He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina.”
Was that a sign of a long-brewing rift between Trump and Habba? It sure looks like it, especially with Trump already scouting for a new lawyer.
