'Tremendous tragedy': Alina Habba still raging at E. Jean Carroll's court win over Trump
Alina Habba, an attorney and advisor for Donald Trump, argued Tuesday that it was a "tremendous tragedy" that writer E. Jean Carroll won a defamation case against the president-elect after he denied sexually assaulting her.
While speaking to right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, Habba claimed that Trump would have been imprisoned if he had not won the 2024 presidential election. The remarks came after special counsel Jack Smith dropped cases against Trump for election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents on Monday.
"I think they would have put him in jail," she said. "Not because he deserved to go, but because we've seen it happen time and time again."
"E Jean [Carroll] is another one," Habba remarked on the $83 million defamation and sexual abuse verdict against Trump. "Unfortunately, in the list of issues that President Trump's had to deal with, being attempted to be assassinated twice, them trying to put him in jail, them trying to bankrupt his company, that one's probably the least concerning, although it's a tremendous tragedy."
Habba, however, insisted Trump "has the means to handle it."
The attorney claimed that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) "created a law for one year solely to prosecute President Trump." The Adult Survivors Act gave survivors of sexual assault a one-year window to file claims in court without being barred by a statute of limitations.
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The law resulted in over 2,500 sex abuse suits in New York, including the case against Trump.
"There's another example of corruption," Habba complained. "Governor Hochul's law that she did in tandem with the prosecutor of that case, Robbie Kaplan, who then made money off of the case."