An attorney and spokeswoman for former President Donald Trump is pushing back on a suggestion by a noted legal expert that her client isn’t likely to be entirely successful in his appeal of a massive fine imposed on him by a New York judge in his civil fraud case.

Last month, a jury levied a $355 million fine on the former president after he had already been found guilty of defrauding banks to get favorable business loans, even though none of those banks were harmed, according to testimony during the trial. The case was brought by NY Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned in 2018 on ‘getting’ Trump.

Writing in the National Review, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote that he expected that the fine would likely be reduced, but that would be it as far as an appeal goes.

“To my mind, it is unlikely that Trump’s appeal will result in a clean win for either side,” he wrote in the Feb. 20 article.

“I anticipate that he will get material relief in terms of the dollar amount, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on the rest of the penalties. And those penalties matter, a lot,” he added.

That said, McCarthy also wrote that he thought the case was “nakedly partisan” and that he hoped it would be “overturned on appeal.”

But in an interview earlier this month with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, attorney Alina Habba disagreed with McCarthy’s assessment, adding she would “welcome him to be part of the legal team if he knows the case better than the team that tried it for 11 weeks.”

“I’ve been on this case for the better of three years, and I can tell you right now there are truly no facts that support any of these decisions, and that, again, I can say will be made very clear in our appeal,” Habba argued.

Following the ruling, a number of real estate investors said they would either leave New York or end any consideration of doing business there.

One of them, Grant Cardone of Cardone Capital, has instructed their teams to prepare to leave New York.

“We thought this year was the opportunity to come into Chicago, California, and New York City. I’ve been waiting for 40 years now to invest in that marketplace. I was completely confident this was the year to come,” Cardone told Steve Doocy on “FOX & Friends” on Wednesday. “And when that ruling happened, it was like pencils down. Don’t touch it. Don’t go there.”