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The lawyer who boasted she could “fake being smart” before earning client Donald Trump an $83.3 million defamation penalty is at the center of a new conspiracy theory, an Anti-Defamation League expert announced Wednesday. “The ‘Alina Habba was a deep state plant to destroy Donald Trump’ theory has entered the building,” historian and right-wing extremism expert Mark Pitcavage wrote. Pitcavage shared with his X followers a tweet from UltraMAGAGirl arguing Habba’s shaky defense in E. Jean Carroll’s New York City defamation trial was purposefully incompetent. Want more breaking political news? Cl…