Alina Habba, an attorney for ex-president Donald Trump, said this morning that she’s worried her client could lose the New York hush-money case against him because jurors have spent the Memorial Day weekend “left-winging” with friends and family.
Habba made that bizarre statement during an appearance on Fox News, with host Sean Duffy remarking, “I want to tell you what, there’s a silver lining in this, Alina. I don’t want a juror on Thursday or Friday going into Memorial Day weekend to go, you know what? I got a party going on. I want to end this case early.”
“I think it could bode well for President Trump, for those people on the jury who understand the law and the facts to fight for him and fight for justice,” Duffy added.
Habba disagreed with Duffy, suggesting the long weekend might harm her client, especially since the jury wasn’t sequestered.
“And for them to be able to be out and about on a holiday weekend with friends and families who have opinions, who are watching the news, TV’s on the background at the pool party, I have serious concerns. If they’re left-winging and they’re watching MSDNC, as my client calls it, or CNN, they’re not going to get fair news.”
“They’re going to hear, but by the way, they have been saying that this case is a hoax, which is shocking, but they know that the jurors are out there listening,” she continued. “I have worries about them going back to whatever friends might have, Trump derangement syndrome, forgetting all sense of reality and coming back and sitting in that box and saying, you know what, I’ve got to do, you know, take one for the DNC.”
“I want law to fact, because if we can get that, we will win. We will not just get a hung jury. We will get an acquittal.”
Here’s the real problem for Habba and her client: The facts show that Donald Trump committed several crimes. And that means the law will only be served if he’s found guilty and punished.
