Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, should be more careful.
Habba, who is not representing Trump in his secret trial, still showed up at the Manhattan courthouse Monday to give her opinion. “We’re here because of something that happened while he was in the White House that wasn’t even wrong,” she said. said journalists.
“You hire lawyers to solve problems, the lawyers solve those problems, you pay them. This is it!’” Habba said, in language reminiscent of Trump’s rally speeches.
Alina Habba Dismisses Trump’s Discreet Payment to Porn Star: ‘You hire lawyers to solve problems, lawyers solve those problems. That’s it.’ pic.twitter.com/bOiYHEjf59
-Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2024
Whether they resolved the issues or not, payments made by Trump in 2016 to his then-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen were allegedly made to ensure that adult film actress Stormy Daniels remained silent about her liaison with the then presidential candidate. Trump now faces 34 criminal charges for allegedly falsifying business records with the intent to commit a predicate crime.
Habba’s vehement defense of Trump may impress him, but they are not denying the crime, nor the facts of the case. In fact, it almost sounds like she’s admitting that he paid Cohen to keep Daniels quiet.
Habba often goes to crazy lengths to defend the former president, whether it’s claiming he dozed off in court because “he reads a lot» or compare it to Nelson Mandela. She even, in trying to defend Trump in front of a safe audience on Fox News, almost admitted that he could be purchased by foreign countries to repay his debts.
Habba’s remarks on Monday are also not the first time she has demonstrated ignorance of the law. She claimed that New York state law’s requirement that Trump attend his trial every day was a violation of “a regular procedure,” and she was reprimanded in court 12 times in one day in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. She even had to abandon her attempt to get the Carroll case rejected.
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