Alina Habba (Newsmax screenshot)
Trump attorney Alina Habba lashed out at prosecutors over a rumor that former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has secured an immunity deal to testify against her client.
In an interview with Newsmax, Habba decried the very standard prosecutorial practice of pressuring witnesses to agree to immunity deals in order to secure indictments of other investigative targets.
"What we’re hearing is that [Meadows] was granted immunity," she said. "Effectively, he would be a key witness against the president and give testimony in opposition of him. As we've seen, time and time again, this is what they did to Allen Weisselberg in New York. This is what they do time and again to anybody that is close to the Trump world, because they have nothing."
Contrary to Habba's claim, Weisselberg never had to testify against Trump as part of his plea deal with prosecutors – and it's still not known whether Meadows has agreed to any such deal.
The Independent exclusively reported the Meadows' story Wednesday. No other outlet has confirmed it and Meadows' attorney called it "complete bulls----."
Nonetheless, Habba said this is all evidence of vast "weaponization" of the Justice Department to bring down the former president, who was also the first president in American history to have been impeached on two separate occasions.
"So, they have to squeeze people, scare people, and intimidate them into testifying and in the direction that they want," she complained. "It's very disturbing."
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