Fox News gives Trump lawyer Alina Habba a reality check: 'You're going to be found guilty'
Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, declared that New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron does not have a "respect for authority" after he cautioned her client during testimony on Monday.
In a Tuesday interview on Fox News, host Bill Hemmer asked Habba about Trump's $250 million fraud trial.
"You think that the judge already pre-ordained his verdict before the witness, okay, even before the witnesses took the stand, then you're going to be found guilty in this case on behalf of the judge," Hemmer offered.
"He found us summarily liable [before the trial]," Habba explained. "He said that we committed fraud, 'we,' meaning [the] Trump Organization and all the defendants, committed fraud on their statement of financial condition because they were too low. When in fact they were in many instances undervalued."
Habba noted that Ivanka Trump was set to testify on Wednesday even though she was no longer a defendant in the case.
"There's a real disregard for authority here and a real primary focus on politics," the attorney remarked. "And that's what we're seeing in the courtroom."
She also vowed to unload a flurry of motions on Thursday focusing on Engoron's behavior while Trump was on the stand.
"I mean, who's bigger than Donald Trump?" she asked. "And you sit there, and you're trying to challenge him. It's not going to work."
"Thursday, we'll be making our motions relating to some biases we've seen in the courtroom, some biases we've seen outside of the courtroom, and frankly, how they just haven't been able to," she added. "So Thursday will be a big motion day where we'll outline how there is no case, and how there should be a mistrial and a directed verdict."