Sounding off in a video about the legal battle against New York Attorney General Letitia James, particularly the recent demand from AG James that the judge reject Trump’s $175 million bond and force him to post a new one. The judge refused that demand, finding that it was ok for the bond money to be kept in a money market account but that it could not be transferred into other investments, such as mutual funds.
She began, “[Trump] should not even be here today, because he did nothing wrong. This is the epitome of a witch hunt. I just left where a judge asked us whether our cash, cash bond, cash sitting in, Miss James wanted to argue and say that our cash somehow isn’t green enough.” AG James, for reference, argued that the money should not be kept in a money market fund.
Continuing, she scorched the judge for a comment he made about money market accounts, saying, “We wasted time, the judge made a comment saying he thought that money market accounts could go down under the amount. He doesn’t even understand basic principles of finance.” Money market funds have one-to-one parity with the dollar, and their “breaking the buck” would signal huge financial issues with markets.
In any case, Habba continued, “But this was the man that decided that we owed money, and my client committed fraud. We are going to tack every single one. One hour, the Attorney General and that Judge realized quickly that they had no idea what they were talking about. We came to an agreement, that everything would be the same, we would modify the terms, and that was it.”
She then scorched the court for wasting taxpayer dollars on this, saying, “And this is where your taxpayer dollars are going America. Right here, with witch hunt after witch hunt. President Trump’s company was worth more in that case than it is now.”
She then turned to the case brought against Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over the Stormy Daniels issue, saying, “And now what? We’re here because of something that happened when he was in the White House, that wasn’t even wrong. It was not wrong. You hire lawyers to solve problems, lawyers solve those problems. You pay them. That’s it.”
Habba continued, “This is a joke. It is an affront to American Constitution. It is an affront to our judicial system. And it’s an affront to every lawyer that cares about their license and cares about what is right and wrong. I am sick of coming in front of the press and saying this, but you have to because you people need to understand what is going on.”
She added, commenting on DA Bragg’s allegations about what Trump did, “God forbid you put an accounting thing in for legal counsel. It’s legal counsel, and now our taxpayer dollars. My time, our attorneys fees are all here because they’re afraid of 2024 and you know what they should do because the American people are not stupid. They see what’s going on. Thank you.”
Watch her here:
A hot mike, however, showed the press’ condescension toward Habba, as after she finished talking, a mic captured the sound of the reporters in the press pool laughing. Mediaite, reporting on that, noted, “As Habba strode away, a reporter asked a question that Habba ignored, and a few seconds later reporters could be heard laughing on the still-live mic.”
Featured image credit: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Alina Habba, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=142958893
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