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Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Complains Of 'Litigious' Prosecutors Trying To Frame Her Client For The Crime Of Having A Messy Office

Shutting up is free. But it doesn't get you airtime.

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Alina Habba (headshot from Habba Madaio LLP)

Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba has a very busy schedule. She appears to spend mornings with her pals at Newsmax, trying out material in the smaller venues to see what hits. And then hits the main stage at night with Fox. It’s all bullshit, of course. But she’s managed to polish it into shinier bullshit for the bigger, PM crowd.

To wit, here she is up early to talk about the latest memes with Newsmax’s John Bachman.

“I saw this meme that was very funny on Instagram, I believe it was, that was amazing.” she told host John Bachman on Tuesday in response to the empty Top Secret folders found in Trump’s office and pool shed.  “At first, it was the codes for the nuclear weapons. Now it’s invisible classified documents. You know, it could mean anything. I don’t know.”

“It could mean that they gave those documents to NARA and to the FBI prior, as we know, which they had done. It could mean there was nothing in them. It could mean they’re invisible,” she giggled, emphasizing the good part of her client’s dealings with the National Archives, when, after a year and a threat to inform Congress, he “voluntarily” gave back some of the documents he stole on the way our of the White House.

Here she is on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” with Rob Finnerty explaining that the Department of Justice’s real job is to negotiate the return of those documents for all eternity, and not be so “litigious.”

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“They’re supposed to be cooperative,” she tut-tutted. “This is the Department of Justice. Yes, you’re supposed to enforce justice and laws, but the litigiousness is concerning.”

Don’t those prosecutors understand they’re supposed to pass out juice and cookies and let all the kids talk about their feelings before nap time?

Yes, this is the same lawyer who submitted an affidavit to New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron swearing that she’d personally searched the same premises as those covered by the FBI warrant in her search for documents responsive to a subpoena by the New York Attorney General. Trust her, she’ll tell you all about it, as in this after dark spot on Fox where she seemed to suggest that the FBI was framing Trump for the crime of messiness.

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In that segment, she explained that Trump has guests up to his office “all the time.” Because how better to reassure the American public of her client’s innocence than to highlight the fact that he parades domestic and foreign dignitaries in and out of the area where the FBI just discovered highly sensitive classified documents?

And in yet another Fox appearance, this time with the former president’s good buddy Sean Hannity, she helpfully admitted that the entire purpose of the case before Judge Cannon was to “stop any criminal investigation that might be happening or any investigation at all from proceeding dead in its tracks until that special gets into play.”

And in yet another professional coup, Habba and her co-counsel on the insane RICO LOLsuit against Hillary Clinton and half of DC finally managed to file an opposition to the government’s motion to substitute itself as defendant for Rep. Adam Schiff and former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein under the Westfall Act. Sure it’s a week late and it took Judge Donald Middlebrooks reminding her and extending the deadline by a week sua sponte. But, you know, Alina Habba’s been busy.

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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