He used to represent Trump. Hear what he thinks about Alina Habba

I want to get perspective now from an attorney who formerly represented former President Donald Trump, Tim Parlatore. Tim, thanks for being here back on The Source, I mean, this is the second jury to find Trump's blame for defaming E. Jean Carroll. Do you believe he accepts this? You know, I don't. I mean, obviously, by standing up and walking out in the middle of it, I think he was kind of making his opinion known. But, you know, both of these trials, they came to results that he certainly does

n't like. I think that they probably are, you know, could have turned out differently, perhaps. But no, I don't think he's going to accept it. I mean, you, Representative, how do you think he is reacting tonight to an $83.3 million verdict from a jury, not from a judge or Democrats or President Biden, whatever he says, this is from a jury. It is. And the crazy thing that he's probably thinking about is they awarded 5 million, you know, for the actual alleged assault or, you know, the they when t

hey found the assault and then several magnitudes more for talking about it. You know, so I think that that's probably something that's probably going through his head right now is the kind of disparity between the first verdict and the second verdict. And, you know, when you listen to some of the things Alina Habba says about how they were stripped of the defenses. I mean, that's that's right. Because of the first trial. You know, had they had a different verdict in the first trial, they might

have had a different set of circumstances for the second trial. But once you've tried a case, you're stuck with that conclusion. She said outside court that she didn't she didn't regret representing Trump. But I mean, do you you know, both of them do you think it's the other way around that he regrets having her having representative in this? I'm glad you asked me that question. You know, I don't know. I mean, certainly, you know, from my perspective, I would regret having her represent him. I m

ean, I do think that in both of these trials, he was essentially undefended. And I think that it could have turned out differently. I mean, in the second trial, unfortunately, because of the way the first trial went, I don't think anybody could have won the second trial. I think that, you know, once the issues were set up from the first trial, second trial was a loser from the beginning. The question is how big of a loser? And this goes back to, you know, a jury is going to come up with the numb

er and you have to put on the best presentation to them to get them to come to a lower number. And so all of these, you know, things that that she did throughout the process I don't think helps at all. What about him in that's that's also a matter of in the courtroom. The attorney is the one who should be telling the client how to act, what to be doing and everything else. And you know, one thing I always tell my clients is in the courtroom, there's only 12 opinions that matter and yours is not

one of them. Everything we do has to be guided by what are those people in that box going to see? What are they going to hear? What are they going to think? How is it going to affect their state of mind? And I don't know whether she properly prepared him and possibly he ignored it or if she didn't, I don't know. You know, how he is with finances. I mean, do you think he'll ultimately end up he's an appeal this. But do you think he ultimately ended up paying $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll? You

know, I think that the the appeal on this, if done correctly, is going to be one that attacks the amount, not the not the fact that there was a verdict, but rather, was the verdict excessive? And I think that that's where they're going to try and just knock down the number. And so I think that between that, you know, obviously, he's going to have to post some kind of a bond that it's not going to be the full amount. But if they can, you know, put forth, he has somewhat of a decent appeal on, you

know, the amount of the number. And at the same time, if if they do have appellate issues on the first case, that can also affect the second case. And, you know, quite frankly, if I were still there, I would be looking for a way to try and figure out how do we work out a resolution on this, a settlement to just put this to bed and move on. Should he reconsider having Alina Habba or his current legal team? Should he reconsider having them represent him in that appeal? Oh, yes. I mean, definitely

you shouldn't have the same lawyer that did the case do your appeal. You know, that's generally inadvisable because the attorney who tried the case is going to have a lot of personal biases on how they tried the case. And so you really want to have a fresh set of eyes in on it. You want to have somebody who is actually an appellate expert on it, which I do not believe Alina Habba is an appellate expert. Tim Parlatore, thanks for joining us.