Speaking outside the DC federal courthouse on Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba claimed that each of the charges against the ex-president were timed to take the heat off the Bidens.
She also claimed that the latest indictments, which are related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, were entirely politically motivated.
Trump arrived by motorcade at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse for his arraignment while Habba spoke to reporters.
“I think every court should look at this as a whole, right? It’s not about the January 6 case,” she said.
Habba said it was to “tie up one person who is on a campaign, in a campaign, running for office, for president, so that he goes to court, in depositions and distracted.” So that it does not run well before 2024.’
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba spoke to reporters outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, DC, on Thursday as he had just arrived for his arraignment
Former President Donald Trump waves as he disembarks from ‘Trump Force One’ Thursday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ahead of his arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C.
“And frankly, it’s not going to work,” she added.
The Trump attorney laid out a timeline where every time Hunter Biden’s misdeeds hit the news, the ex-president was charged.
On March 17, Hunter accidentally admits it’s his laptop from hell. The next day, District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing President Trump,” she said.
Bragg sued Trump on March 30.
On June 8, an FBI document will be released showing that the Ukrainians paid the Biden crime family millions and millions of dollars. The next day…the Mar-a-Lago indictment,” she continued.
Her timeline was right that time.
Former President Donald Trump was captured in the SUV that took him Thursday to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington DC for his arraignment on charges related to 2020 election interference and the January 6 attack on the Capitol
“Last week the Hunter Biden plea deal fell through when the judge realized it had blanket immunity,” she noted.
The first son appeared in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.
“The next day a substitute indictment against Donald Trump,” she continued.
On Thursday, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a replacement charge in the case involving classified documents alleging that Trump ordered the destruction of surveillance footage.
He also sued another Trump associate.
“July 31, Devon Archer will testify before the House,” she said.
Archer was a business partner of Hunter Biden.
‘What happens the next day? The January 6 indictment we’re here for today,” she said.
‘This is no coincidence. This is electoral interference at its best against the – currently – leading candidate for president of any party,” Habba continued.
Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters outside the D.C. federal courthouse on Thursday after the ex-president arrived for his third indictment since April
“President Trump is under siege in a way we have never seen before. President Trump, his legal team and everyone on his team will continue to fight – not for him – but for the American people,” the lawyer added.
She also said that Smith, who is in charge of both the classified documents case and the election interference and the Jan. 6 case, caused problems for himself with the wording in the latest indictment because he has to prove that the 2020 election went off perfectly.
“There just needs to be evidence that, Number 1, President Trump believed this election wasn’t entirely fair and, Number 2, Jack Smith has opened up to a can of worms that we can now look at and really investigate,” she said.
She also said she would be “happy” to take the matter to court soon.
Trump’s lawyers have pushed for all of his trials to proceed after the 2024 election since he is a current candidate.
“There’s such a thing as discovery,” she said, explaining why the process couldn’t start soon. “And if someone wants to say that the 2020 election was perfect and that President Trump has no right to object to it, we have to show them all the facts and there are many facts to show.”
Habba also ignored the indictment’s reasoning that Trump knew the election was not stolen because a cadre of top officials told him so.
“Well, I think everyone was made aware that he lost the election, but that doesn’t mean that was the only advice he was given,” she said. “As everyone understands what goes on in the Oval Office, there are plenty of advisers and politicians and lawyers — not just one or two — who give you advice and tell you what they think is true.”
“He may disagree with Mike Pence, he may disagree with one of his lawyers, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t other people who advised him the exact opposite,” she added.
Pence took a whack at Trump on the campaign trail on Wednesday.
“Unfortunately, the president was surrounded by a bunch of idiot lawyers who kept telling him what his itchy ears wanted to hear,” Pence said at the Indiana State Fair.
Concluding her Q&A with reporters, Habba also claimed that Trump handled his election loss better than his 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton — who called and conceded to Trump, told her supporters she lost, and attended Trump’s inauguration, all things that he declined to do after his loss to President Joe Biden.
“If we have differences of opinion, we take them to court. We say do things peacefully and patriotically. He is responsible for things he did not do himself,” she said.
“Frankly folks, this isn’t about that, this is about politics, this is about 2024. Period, the end,” Habba said.