‘This should terrify all citizens of this country’: Trump lawyer Alina Habba says prosecutors should have gone after Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in tirade outside courthouse while ex-president is booked on 37 counts
- The former president is facing 37 federal charges over handling classified files
- Bedminster-based lawyer Alina Habba blasted ‘corrupt’ DAs
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Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba delivered a furious statement outside the Miami courthouse where the former president was being processed and fingerprinted after being charged with willful retention of national defense information.
She attacked not only the prosecutors who brought the grand jury indictment that made Trump the first U.S. president to face a federal indictment, but those who continue to probe his activities in New York and in Fulton County, Georgia.
‘In recent years, we have seen the rise of politically motivated prosecutors who don’t care for impartiality don’t care for due process for equal protection of laws,’ Habba said outside the courthouse.
‘They have been quietly, but aggressively cultivating a two-tiered system of justice. From the Russia hoax to the attorney generals to the corrupt DAs in Georgia and New York. And now this. The people in charge of this country do not love America. They hate Donald Trump,’ she said, echoing some of the language of her client.
Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba attacked ‘corrupt’ DAs and asked why President Joe Biden had not been prosecuted over classified documents
Then she went after a pair of Trump targets, former first lady Hillary Clinton and President Biden.
‘Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden himself, retained possession of classified documents that have not been prosecuted. And none of them came into possession of those documents while they were president,’ she said.
She was referencing Clinton’s retention of classified emails that were on her home server while Secretary of State. A special counsel is investigating classified material found at Biden’s home and office, although Biden’s team said they have cooperated with authorities and turned over materials when they were discovered.
Former FBI Director James Comey announced days before the 2016 election that charges would not be brought against the former first lady over her email server, although he said she had been ‘extremely careless.’
According to the 37-count indictment unsealed against Trump, FBI agents found boxes of national security materials when they searched Mar-a-Lago, including nuclear information and a Pentagon attack plan on a country.
‘They pursue charges against President Trump while turning a blind eye to others is emblematic of the corruption that we have here,’ she said, saying it was ‘they type of thing’ you see in countries like Venezuela.
‘What is being done to the president should terrify all citizens of this country,’ said Trump lawyer Alina Habba
A New York judge tossed out a $100 million suit Habba brought for Trump against the New York Times
‘What is being done to the president should terrify all citizens of this country,’ she said.
Habba has a firm based in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump has a golf club and was set to speak Tuesday night. She represented Trump in New York where state AG Letitia James accused him of pumping up valuations of properties to obtain financing. She also sued the New York Times for $100 million in a suit a New York judge tossed this month.
Her defense came minutes after Trump was placed under arrest by U.S. Marshals after entering federal court with his loyal aide Walt Nauta Tuesday afternoon in Miami.
The former president’s motorcade left Trump National Doral Miami and took off on the journey downtown where a crowd of protesters and supporters were ready to greet him.
A short time later the motorcade went underneath the court, where Trump was processed and fingerprinted. The booking procedure wrapped up shortly before 2:30 p.m.
At 3 p.m. he’ll face the judge and the 37 federal charges will then be read to him.
He gave a brief wave to a group of supporters lined up outside his golf course before the stream of black SUVs and cop cars began their procession along empty highways.
Nauta, the loyal aide who prosecutors say helped Trump move documents around Mar-a-Lago, was in the motorcade with him awaiting his own appearance in front of the judge.
Donald Trump has left his Miami hotel on his way to his historic appearance in a federal courthouse on charges he wilfully mishandled the nation’s biggest secrets
He gave a brief wave to a group of supporters lined up outside his golf course before the stream of black SUVs and cop cars began their procession along empty highways
The 76-year-old is facing 37 federal charges related to his handling of classified documents that included U.S. nuclear secrets and intelligence on foreign countries
A short time later the motorcade went underneath the court, where Trump will be processed and fingerprinted before he has the 37 charges read to him
Trump posted on Truth Social while sat in the motorcade on his way to the courthouse
During the drive Trump shared his fury with a Truth Social post saying: ‘ON MY WAY TO COURTHOUSE. WITCH HUNT!!! MAGA.’
The 76-year-old is facing 37 federal charges related to his handling of classified documents that included U.S. nuclear secrets and intelligence on foreign countries.
The allegations were revealed in the bombshell federal indictment unsealed on Friday – and included photos of boxes of sensitive files scattered around Mar-a-Lago.
His supporters and protesters started swarming the courthouse on Tuesday morning, waiting for his showdown with a judge.
Trump brought a number of loyal aides to Miami with him including Jason Miller, Boris Epshteyn and Margo Martin.
Outside the courthouse, Trump lawyer Alina Habba blasted the prosecution – as well as Trump probes underway in other jurisdictions. ‘Destruction of the longstanding American principles that have set this country part for so long.
In recent years, we have seen the rise of politically motivated prosecutors who don’t care for impartiality don’t care for due process for equal protection of laws,’ she said.
‘They have been quietly, but aggressively cultivating a two-tiered system of justice. From the Russia hoax to the attorney generals to the corrupt Das in Georgia and New York. And now this. The people in charge of this country do not love America. They hate Donald Trump.’
Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy called on all presidential candidates to vow they would pardon Trump during a press conference outside.
He said that he would quash any conviction against the former president for mishandling classified documents, obstructing justice and making false statements
Trump, meanwhile, took to his Truth Social platform to rail against Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the Department of Justice’s case.
‘This is the Thug, over turned consistently and unanimously in big cases, that Biden and his CORRUPT Injustice Department stuck on me. He’s a Radical Right Lunatic and Trump Hater, as are all his friends and family, who probably “planted” information in the “boxes” given to them. They taint everything that they touch, including our Country, which is rapidly going to HELL!,’ he complained.
There were only a handful of people on hand early in the morning but officials expected that number to increase as the time of Trump’s arrival got closer.
One of the early arrivals was a group wearing ‘Blacks for Trump’ t-shirts.
Another man, wearing the American flag, carried a stick with a pig’s head through it.
Many of Trump’s supporters were coordinating their movements on Twitter.
Kari Lake, the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate who is a huge supporter of the former president, tweeted that she will be joining protesters Tuesday.
Reporters lined up to get one of the 300 seats in the overflow room inside the courthouse. Only 20 journalists and members of the public will be let inside the actual courtroom where Trump will be arraigned.
Meanwhile, Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday found that 81 percent of Republicans thought the charges against Trump were politically motivated.
The poll also found that Trump still leads his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination by a wide margin.
About 43 percent of Republicans said Trump was their preferred candidate, compared to 22 per cent who picked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump’s closest rival.
Department of Homeland Security police investigate a loading dock area for the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse before the arraignment of former President Donald Trump Tuesday
The former president’s motorcade left Trump National Doral Miami and took off on the 25-minute journey downtown where he will be processed and fingerprinted before he is read the bombshell charges against him
Cops cleared the highway as his motorcade made the journey to the court for his second appearance in front of a judge in three months
Members of law enforcement wearing riot gear ride at the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami ahead of Donald Trump’s arraignment
A Trump opponent carries a pig head on a stick outside the Miami courthouse where the former president will appear on Tuesday afternoon
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