Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba is sounding the alarm on the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg involving alleged hush money payments paid to adult movie star Stormy Daniels.
“We are in a state of crisis!” she said to Fox News host Sean Hannity this week after Judge Juan Merchan threatened to place the former president behind bars if he violates his gag order again.
“With reaction. Trump legal spokesperson Alina Habba. She was in the courtroom today. Sounds like the judge is serious, Alina. And it sounds like the double standard has gotten worse,” the host said.
“It has. It has, Sean. There’s no other way of saying it. We have seen it time and time again, as you’re seeing with the comments that you’ve made,” the attorney said.
“We’ve got witnesses that are allowed to talk and go on MSNBC or MSDNC, as my client likes to call it, CNN and talk about my client talk about this case. But for some reason he can’t talk. That doesn’t make any sense,” she said.
“And then you layer that with a judge who has clear ambitions and political motivations. He’s threatening to throw a former president. And as he acknowledged, most importantly, today in the courtroom while I was there, this is probably going to be the future president,” the former president’s attorney said.
“And for somebody who’s left wing, to say that was shocking. But he did, and he recognized it and then threatened to put him in jail for speaking.
“He didn’t even speak, frankly, Sean. He reposted things that other people said. And that in itself he called contempt,” she said.
“We are looking at a serious dual system of justice. We are in a state of crisis when it comes to our judicial system! This is election interference so that he cannot campaign because Biden cannot win if he doesn’t hold him in court!” she said.
“Yeah. Pretty amazing. Alina, we’re watching this all unfold before our eyes. I feel like we’re living in a third world country, and this is a kangaroo court,” the host said.
Sad times for our country. We’ll be watching closely in the days to come,” he said.
