Alina Habba

Donald Trump's attorney is "taking heat" after saying she is a "big fan" of a right-wing internet influencer who has been accused of trafficking women.

Alina Habba represented Trump in court when the then-candidate was accused of and ultimately found liable for the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll. More recently, Trump announced a role for Habba in his upcoming administration.

Alina Habba, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination to serve as counselor to the president, took issue Monday with the current president's gripe that he made a mistake choosing Merrick Garland for attorney general.

President Joe Biden reportedly regrets pulling out of the presidential race and nominating Garland for the nation's top law enforcement official, complaining that Garland didn't move fast enough to prosecute Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, and aggressively prosecuting Hunter Biden.

Alina Habba got hit with a fact check from a legal expert on Sunday after the Donald Trump attorney dropped a "bombshell."

Habba, who made some headlines during Trump's civil defamation trial and said in October that court rulings against Trump aren't from "real judges," was recently announced to be Trump's planned "Counselor to the President" in the upcoming term.

Donald Trump made a surprise appearance in the post-debate spin room after his widely panned performance against Kamala Harris, and one of his attorneys tried to present that apparent cleanup attempt as "leadership."

The former president praised his own performance, saying that polling showed as many as 90 percent of viewers thought he won the debate, and one reporter interrupted to ask him to speak up while another asked where he was getting those poll numbers, although Trump didn't say.

Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney and spokeswoman, doubled down on a previous claim that she had to "survive" on peanuts and Coca-Cola as a child.

Habba's remarks went viral over the weekend after she told the story at Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit.

Donald Trump spokeswoman and his former lawyer, Alina Habba, claimed that Judge Juan Merchan was forced to cover his mouth to hide his glee over the conviction of the ex-president — but others in the courtroom are calling the comment untrue.

Habba claimed on Fox News that Merchan covered his face and was "probably" smiling after hearing the jury's decision.

Former President Donald Trump scored a legal victory in New York as he waited for a panel of jurors to determine the fate of his criminal hush money trial.

The victory was not against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — who prosecuted Trump on charges that he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election — but a member of his own family.

Attorney Alina Habba, who is not part of Donald Trump's legal team overseeing his hush money trial defense, managed to temporarily disrupt the proceedings in the Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday.

Moments after Judge Juan Merchan started providing the 12-person jury with instructions on how to arrive at a verdict related to the 34 felony counts filed against the former president, Habba played a video on her phone which caused the judge to shoot her a look.

According to a report from CNN, trial attendees are not allowed to use their phones in the courtroom during the proceedings and Habba was out of line.

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While providing updates on the courtroom proceeding, CNN's Paula Reid reported, "Just now a phone went off in the courtroom; our colleagues are reporting that it appeared to be Alina Habba's phone playing a video."

As co-host John Berman laughed, she added, "Apparently the judge did not look, did not react, did not make a thing about it and she apparently put away her phone."

"That's interesting," co-host Kaitlan Collins interrupted, "because Trump's team they've had their phones out. Anyone else, if you're sitting in the back of the room, including the DA's team from what I've seen, are not on their phones. You are not allowed to be on your phone, you can't even have your phone sitting next to you if on silent or even off. The court officers will tell you, put it away, and don't even bring it out."

'Yeah, but Trump's team, they sit right behind them and they often have their phones out doing various things, emails, but to have a video play in the middle of this historic moment when they're charging the jury? I mean, that's that's pretty poor form so hopefully that will not happen again," Reid replied.

"But the judge did shoot her a stern look in that direction, the way the noise was coming from and just moved on, which is probably the right way to handle it, right? This is a critical moment. You want to walk the jury through this incredible task they are about to undertake and not get distracted by something like that," she added.