Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba bragged to a crowd of conservatives Sunday about a $1 million fine she and the former president were hit with for filing “frivolous” lawsuits.
The lawyer was talking to a crowd at "AmericaFest," a conference sponsored by the right-wing Turning Point USA.
The fine in question was handed down by Florida Judge Donald Middlebrooks after he threw out lawsuits that claimed 31 defendants had conspired to push claims of Trump ties to Russia in an effort to ruin his chances of winning the 2016 election. The suits were dismissed in September 2022, with Middlebrooks sanctioning Trump and his lawyer for a "continuing pattern of misuse of the courts.”
In Phoenix Sunday, Newsweek reported, Habba said she and Trump paid the fine, while pointing out that Middlebooks was a Bill Clinton-nominated judge — the husband of Trump’s 2016 opponent.
"What do you think happened?” she asked the crowd.
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“Nobody's heard of the case, right? Because it's gone. I never met the judge. I never walked into the courtroom. There were probably 50 lawyers representing all of the radical left."
"One month, it got dismissed, and me and President Trump got sanctioned a million dollars for going against crooked Hillary."
She went on, "But guess what? We paid that million and we're going to keep on fighting."
Her comments confused legal experts.
"This is very strange,” Mark S. Zaid, a Washington attorney, posted on X. “Apparently she wants publicity about how unethical a lawyer she is."
