Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba is not looking forward to the verdict in her client's civil fraud case, she revealed in an interview this week with Newsmax's Eric Bolling.
The case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, claims that Trump and his two adult sons systematically made fraudulent property valuations to manipulate their tax liability and loan terms, something they vigorously denied at trial. But Judge Arthur Engoron has already held Trump liable for fraud in a summary judgment, with the trial largely to decide damages.
Engoron is expected to rule on it Friday.
James is seeking $370 million in fines and a ban on the Trump Organization doing business in the state of New York.
"If I could file the appeal now, I would," Habba told Bolling. "There's no surprises coming here. It's much of the same that we've seen in New York. And I'll be loud and booming after we get the decision. I mean, I'm not — I don't have high hopes."
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"I do believe that there is some, you know, ethics left, I hope that Judge Engoron sees through this," she continued. "But quite honestly, I've seen it time and time again, I've been on weeks and weeks and weeks of trial in New York, and the corruption runs deep, the Trump Derangement Syndrome, frankly, runs even deeper. And they can't see straight, they can't apply law to fact. There was absolutely no laws broken."
Habba, who recently proclaimed she'd "rather be pretty than smart" because she can "fake" being smart, was frequently scolded by Engoron for her and her client's antics in the courtroom. Trump appears dissatisfied with Habba over how she handled his other recent civil trial involving the E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment, and he has said he is interviewing new attorneys to handle that appeal.
