'I don't have high hopes': Alina Habba dreads verdict in Trump fraud case

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.

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The cast of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends Weekend” dedicated a segment Sunday morning to gush over President Donald Trump’s hair, while also insisting “the left” was furious with the president’s “great hair day” in a fawning display.

“So Trump has a great hair day, and the left goes absolutely berserk!” said Fox News’ Charles Hurt. “So Trump gave a speech last week and had a magnificent dome of orange hair, and, uh... obviously the left, they can't get enough of hating this guy.”

While speaking in Las Vegas, Nevada last week, onlookers noted Trump appeared to be sporting more hair than usual, and hair that was a slightly different color, sparking a flurry of speculation. The president’s new hairdo also sparked a wave of online “hair memes” in which Trump’s hair was compared to hamsters, among other things – online posts that the hosts of “Fox & Friends Weekend” took as attacks from “the left.”

“It's [Trump Derangement Syndrome] gone mad!” said conservative commentator Mitch Roschelle. “Have they completely run out of material that now the only thing they can focus on is his hair? I mean, it's so vapid, the hatred that they have for Donald Trump, but god bless him, he does have great hair!”

Speculation about Trump's hair has circulated for decades, tied to reporting on a 1989 scalp reduction surgery detailed in Harry Hurt III's 1993 biography, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. According to that reporting, Trump's then-wife Ivana testified in a 1990 divorce deposition that he was in significant pain following the procedure.

Dermatologic surgeon Dr. Gary Linkov has separately told Newsweek that photos of Trump over the decades are consistent with multiple hair restoration procedures, including possible plug grafts, a rotational flap surgery and follicular unit transplantation, based on visual analysis of Trump's hairline and scarring.

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A Republican, desperate to claim a swing-state Senate seat, made a last-ditch appeal to Democrats in his state — and it immediately blew up in his face.

Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan, published a video on X appealing to blue voters he hoped to woo away from their party after the nomination of progressive Abdul El-Sayed.

"The person who won does not represent your values," Rogers says. "You have a home with us."

Replied Travis Akers, "They look like Lifetime movie villains."

The "they" in question is Rogers and his wife Kristi, who says not a word but makes a slew of faces. She nods, grimaces, shakes her head and smiles.

Those faces didn't quite land with some viewers.

"Why she mad?" asked Brian Rosenworcel

Another X user took a screenshot of Kristi Roger's silent stare and replied, "I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE F---ING TERRIFIED IN MY LIFE."

Rogers faced rebuke from Joey Hannum, a spokesman for Michigan Democrats, who took the opportunity to share a headline with Rogers followers: "Millionaire Mike Rogers says voters blaming Trump for high prices are 'nuts.'"

"Wow that’s crazy," replied Hannum. "btw what did you mean by this?"

Melinda Collins accused Rogers of "Islamophobic fear mongering."

"[El-Sayed] actually lives in Michigan," she snapped. "You live in Florida."

Recent reporting from the Michigan Advance found Rogers bought a multimillion-dollar Florida mansion that was “his official residence until his decision to run for U.S. Senate.”

Journalist Mehdi Hassan shared an image of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, standing armed outside their St. Louis home amidst the George Floyd protests in 2020.

A company run by President Donald Trump’s three sons received a mysterious $100 million investment from a crypto fund run by an individual under investigation for money laundering, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In its investigation, the Times uncovered new details about the investor: Guren “Bobby” Zhou, a man with a “shady background” who’s currently under investigation for money laundering in England.

“The curious case of Mr. Zhou illustrates the ease with which buyers with unknown backgrounds and motivations can use the anonymity of cryptocurrency to shower Mr. Trump with money,” the Times’ report reads. “It is not clear how closely World Liberty scrutinized Mr. Zhou’s past, but the money laundering investigation in England was publicly available information, as were portions of Mr. Zhou’s troubled business history.”

In June of 2025, the United Arab Emirates-based Aqua 1 Foundation – run by Zhou – purchased $100 million in digital tokens from World Liberty Financial, an organization run by Trump’s family, along with the family of Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special peace envoy. Those familiar with Zhou's “shady” history expressed confusion at how “he was able to access so much money,” the Times noted.

“[Many former associates] describe Mr. Zhou as a high-octane charmer with a British accent, persuasive enough to sell ice in a snowstorm, as one said,” the Times’ report reads. “But all were stunned to learn that after his departure from London, he was able to purchase $100 million in anything.”

Zhou's red flags include the aforementioned active UK money-laundering investigation, an unpaid $5 million debt from his collapsed flooring business, a failed crypto venture that burned through investor funds, and a string of fabricated corporate partnerships he was forced to walk back, the Times learned.

“In any prior era, a windfall for the president of that size from a foreigner with no public signs of access to that level of wealth would have certainly gone against norms and might have spawned a congressional investigation,” the Times’ report reads.

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