Donald Trump attorney, Alina Habba, described the latest indictment against the former president as “election interference at its finest.’
Commenting outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia not long before Trump pleaded not guilty to the four federal charges by corrupt special counsel Jack Smith, Habba, “The fact that I’m standing here for the third time in four months is not a coincidence.”
She added that the e latest indictment serves as a “deflection” to the Biden crime family.
“This is not a coincidence. This is election interference at its finest against the leading candidate right now for president for either party,” Ms. Habba said of the Trump indictment.
“President Trump is under siege in a way that we have never seen before. President Trump and his legal team and everyone on his team will continue to fight, not for him, but for the American people.”
Trump has been charged in a 45-page indictment with criminal conspiracies to defraud the U.S., obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding—the Jan. 6 certification of the electoral vote, and obstruct an official proceeding.
The charges against Trump carry sentences ranging from 5 to 20 years.
The political witchhunt comes as Trump stands as the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican White House race.
“A witchhunt is when you relentlessly attack your opponent; when you relentlessly attack the thing you are most afraid of,” she said.
“People are most afraid of somebody that can not be bought by Washington. People are afraid of someone who is indecently wealthy and who has given up his good life to fight for this country, and that frightens a lot of politicians who are career politicians, unfortunately, because he’ll get back out there, and I know he’ll be fighting for every one of us so that this doesn’t happen to us,” Ms. Habba said.
Trump’s attorney also said she believes every court needs to look at the latest case against the former president “as a whole.”
“It’s not about the Jan. 6 case, it’s about the fact that in a matter of a couple of months, we have seen them try to tie up … one individual who is running a campaign, in a campaign, running for office, for president, so that he is in court, in depositions, and distracted. So that he won’t properly run for 2024, and frankly, it’s not going to work,” she said.
She also noted that Jack Smith had “opened himself up to a can of worms” and needs to prove Trump intentionally lied about the election results.
Habba drew comparisons between her client and Hillary Clinton, who questioned the results of the 2016 elections.
“So Hillary Clinton could have a problem when she lost the election, and we could have a complete liberal meltdown as we all saw. But when we have dignified disagreements, we take them to court, we say and do things patriotically and peacefully,” Ms. Habba said.
“Frankly, folks, this is not about that. This is about politics; this is about 2024. Period, the end,” she concluded.
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