Lawyer and legal spokesperson for former President Trump,
Alina Haba. It's good to see you again,
Alina. OK, we've got news coming in today.
Alina, what's your reaction to President Biden saying today that
it's,
quote, irresponsible to say that the New York Trump trial
and guilty verdict was rigged?
Plus, he said former President Trump had a chance to
defend himself.
What do you say to that?
It's very convenient from the person that doesn't want the
finger pointed at him because this was exactly what he
had asked for and coordinated.
I mean, are we really surprised?
Let's be honest, he's deflecting.
We knew this was happening.
We knew he was ready to do his speech the
minute a verdict came out.
We knew that there was no surprise.
We keep getting anti Trump political individuals in these courtrooms
and that they're brought in blue states.
There is no question about this that the only person
that's you're being irresponsible is the and that has open
borders and doesn't care about our country is going to
the beach this weekend. Our country is in the state
of crisis.
So I I appreciate it.
I'm not surprised by it,
but I don't respect it.
It's, it's a ridiculous statement to make.
Yeah, Elena, he's taking a victory lap.
He's ignoring questions on on this.
And, you know, how can Trump's legal team appeal and
defend against
what? They don't know what exact crime Trump was convicted
for.
The jury still did not indicate what exactly was the
core underlying law broken behind the charge of influencing election.
Plus, the jury didn't have to be unanimous on it.
I mean, isn't it easier to convict when you strip
a defendant of their due process rights?
It's very easy to reverse
when you fail to identify what the crime is,
when you fail to have them say that,
you have to select what the intent to cover up
what the scheme was.
If you look at what Alvin Bragg said yesterday,
I think it's most telling.
He had his narrative set and the truth was it
was false.
He said that he was guilty of trying to
effectively steal an election in 2016,
but that's not true. That is not what he was
found guilty of by this jury.
And frankly, that's what he was hoping the narrative would
be.
But they couldn't find a crime.
So they gave them a a slew of options to
select from.
And then they said you're guilty of one of these
four things.
You don't have to decide which all unanimously,
but you just have to say that there was some
sort of intent to do some sort of crime.
We don't know what the crime is.
But by the way, that is the grounds for the
appeal along with the jury charges that were flawed,
along with the fact that we couldn't get an expert
in,
along with the fact that we couldn't bring tax information
in even though they charged him with a tax crime.
We were excluded and precluded from bringing that evidence in
the the things we have on appeal are so voluminous.
And I know they've been reported on.
We'll be taking action on that right away.
So we had experts on last night saying this is
just,
you know, a thing, you know,
to get the, the, the statement out there,
Trump's a convicted felon because they know they're going to
get it overturned on appeal.
I mean, Harvey Weinstein's conviction was overturned by the New
York appeals court,
but that wasn't until four years later.
Do you guys plan to go to as high as
the Supreme Court?
If we have to, we will.
We have no problem with that.
As you know, we've taken those matters that we think
are incredibly important to validating and preserving the Constitution that
our country was made on.
There were incredible constitutional violations in this,
in this whole proceeding, including the current gag order.
That's on me, the president and anybody that works for
him.
It's crazy. So look, if we care about America,
we have to fight for it.
And his legal team is prepared to do so in
whatever way we need to.
Do you know, show what Ellie Honig said that this
was really
a contortion and really A twist,
a twisting of the the law here.
It was an, I'll conceived unjustified mess.
This case, you know, the critics are saying this is
a political case.
It would not have happened to anyone else in America
if their name was not Trump.
The danger now is the New York justice system is
in the in the zone of having its integrity destroyed
for political purposes.
You know, this case is about Biden way behind in
the polls abusing the legal system.
That top DOJ official left his powerful number three job
and Biden's DOJ to go after Trump in the in
a local case with a pro Biden job judge who
donated to causes like stop Republicans and ADA who literally
can't campaign on getting Trump.
Yeah, yeah. You couldn't have said it better myself.
Honestly, I couldn't have said it better myself.
That's 100% true. I, I think it's a sad thing
for our country,
to be honest. When you see this kind of desperation,
when you see an administration who should be focused on
running the country.
Instead, their focus is completely and totally on trying to
take down President Trump because he has
no loyalty to anybody but America.
He can't be bought. Everybody knows that.
He put America first. Everybody knows that.
And we've got a president that today smirked,
smirked in front of the camera.
I mean, that says it all.
The smirk to me is more is louder than his
words.
It's louder than anything else.
It's not louder than the White House logs that show
that state constituent DA's and AG's are visiting the White
House.
All of this put together says one thing.
We are in trouble and we need to act now.
That is November, President Trump said it.
November 5th will be the real verdict and I stand
beside that.
Elena, you know what about this?
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told Jesse Watters that prosecutors from
DA Bragg's office were meeting with witnesses and talking about
reviving this case starting way back in 2018.
You know, the DOJ and FEC had dropped it and
boom,
when Trump announced he was running for re election in
2022, then DA Reg launches it.
What do you think?
I think it's obvious. First of all,
it wasn't just DA Bragg.
It was Cy Vance. First,
he said no Cy Vance says no.
DA Bragg says no. Mark Pomerantz,
who they had come to handle this case,
who is a friend of the Clintons and everybody else
comes in,
is angry that they didn't bring the charges,
leaves, writes a book about it,
and they still don't bring it.
When did they bring the charges?
The minute President Trump said he was running for office,
that's when they indicted him.
This was passed the statute of limitations.
It is 8 years old.
All rules don't apply when you're Trump,
for crying out loud. Hoko made a rule.
She made a law, the Adult Survivors Act,
just to go after Trump.
We're seeing rules broken. We're seeing laws made to attack
him.
It is a complete affront to our judicial system.
Yeah. It's not blind anymore,
which is lady justices and blind,
which is terrible. Lena Haba,
thank you so much. Come back soon.
It's good to see you.