Videos of Habba, a Catholic, helping Flicker make a brisket for Passover Seder—a feast that marks the first two days of the eight-day holiday, which begins this year on Monday night—have gone viral on social media, prompting both praise and ridicule.
Flicker, an Israeli-American and staunch supporter of Trump, shared a series of videos and images featuring Habba to her Instagram account on Monday morning, describing the lawyer as her “bestie” while sharing a pun and the brisket recipe. “HABBA NICE PASSOVER!” Flicker wrote. “Started my morning with my bestie ALINA HABBA, (Jill of many trades) who came over to make a brisket for my family! Now you know we are going to #HABBA A NICE PASSOVER!!!”
Flicker’s clips and photos were later shared to Twitter by Trump critics, who used the opportunity to mock Habba over her cooking techniques.
“Alina Habba gives a masterclass on how to saw celery,” former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski tweeted while sharing a video of Habba chopping celery, which had more than 360,000 views as of Monday evening.
“Alina Habba even chops celery like a moron,” Joanne “JoJoFromJerz” Carducci tweeted. “This whole thing is a flesh wound waiting to happen.”
“On the bright side, Habba can’t be any worse at cooking than she is at lawyering,” @KPLWW5 tweeted.
“She doesn’t Habba clue how to make brisket,” @d_c_donovan tweeted.
“Is Alina Habba using enough seasoning here?” the account Patriot Takes tweeted while sharing an image of Habba seasoning the brisket.
“Morton salt instead of Kosher salt for cooking?” @melindak242 tweeted. “OMG, this woman has never cooked in her life. If Ms Habba baked, I bet she would use salted butter. Is there nothing these folks are honest about.”
“My god she’s making shoe leather,” @nickforbrains tweeted.
Newsweek reached out for comment to Habba’s office via email on Monday evening but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
Habba was mercilessly mocked over her legal skills earlier this year while defending Trump in a defamation and sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former columnist E. Jean Carroll, which the ex-president eventually lost and was ordered to pay over $83 million. Although Habba is not representing the ex-president in criminal matters, she appeared at his hush-money trial in New York on Monday in her new capacity as Trump’s “legal spokesperson,” which she has said involves “spitting the truth and giving people facts they may not be hearing.”
Habba also defended Flicker in 2021 when she threatened to sue YouTube for allegedly suspending her account merely for posting “a picture of beautiful children on her birthday.” A lawsuit was never filed.
