Trump lawyer accuses New York AG Letitia James of 'trying to kill the Trump family'
During a recent speech in Phoenix, Arizona, Alina Habba — the personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump — baselessly accused New York's top law enforcement official of trying to "kill" her client.
The Independent reported that Habba, who spoke at the four-day AmericaFest conference last week, said she had "been attacked and been attacking Miss Letitia James, the attorney general for the state of New York who is trying to kill the Trump family, their organization and the presidency," and that this attack has been continuous "for the last 11 joyous weeks."
"[James] said 'I’m going to turn every page on the Trump Organization. I’m going to go in there. I’m going to get Trump and I’m gonna go home,'" Habba said, accusing James of conducting a "witch hunt" against the former president. "That's what we're dealing with."
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"She can bring her witch hunts, but I am the witch hunt slayer," Habba added.
Habba has been representing Trump in the ongoing civil fraud trial in New York, which could conclude before the end of 2023. James' office is seeking $250 million in damages, and to have both the former president and his two adult sons permanently banned from holding officer positions in any New York-based corporation in the future.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing proceedings, already ruled in a pre-trial decision that Trump committed fraud in financial statements filed with the state that artificially inflated the value of his real estate profile in order to obtain more favorable tax and insurance benefits. Trump's appeal failed in December, with appellate judges siding with Engoron.
Habba herself has been accused of unethical behavior in a lawsuit filed by a former employee of Trump's golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. Alice Bianco, who was a server employed at the resort in 2021, said her supervisor at the time forced her into a "quid pro quo" arrangement in which she would have sex with him in order to keep her job. Bianco accused Habba of "grooming" her and pretending to be her friend in order to mine information, then effectively muzzling her by making her sign an illegal non-disclosure agreement in exchange for receiving a "paltry sum" of money. Bianco's lawsuit is seeking to have Habba referred to the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics for unethical behavior, to keep the initial sum of money and to recover legal expenses.
