While Trump fends off his criminal charges in a Manhattan courtroom, Habba will make his case in the court of public opinion.
Trump attorney Alina Habba’s role on former President Donald Trump’s legal team is shifting from his civil trial in the fall for his current criminal trial in New York City.
The Manhattan trial that began Monday pertains to charges filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg against Trump, marking the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The former president has pleaded not guilty while continually maintaining that the case is a political witch hunt and election interference.
Habba, who represented Trump as lead attorney in the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit, is still among the leading voices for the former president, but this time she’s taking her megaphone outside the courtroom.
Introduced as Trump’s „legal spokesperson,“ Habba told The Benny Show, a politically conservative podcast, on Monday that she couldn’t represent Trump in his criminal case because she didn’t practice that type of law, but that her absence in court gave her the opportunity to get his message out through other platforms.
