'It's hard for me to stand it': Alina Habba bursts with frustration over Trump's gag order

Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney, expressed frustration Tuesday after New York Justice Juan Merchan fined her client $9,000 for violating a limited gag order.

During an interview on Fox News, Habba was asked if Trump would obey the gag order now that a judge has found him in contempt of court and threatened him with jail. Merchan previously ruled that Trump could not talk about potential witnesses, jurors, court staff, or their families.

"Do you think that we're going to see a change in his behavior because he doesn't want to deal with this, because he doesn't want to risk going to jail?" Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked.

"I don't know," Habba admitted. "Listen, the president is, is trying to speak for himself and is frustrated because the gag order, I would have you remind, remind the American people, is not just for the president, it was for the president and anybody in his control."

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"How are you supposed to operate?" the attorney said. "He can't go on the campaign trail, and he's operating at the highest level you've ever seen."

Habba promised Trump would "find ways to fight back."

"But quite honestly, what I'm seeing is so inappropriate, so unfair, and so one-sided," she remarked. "I don't know how he can stand it. To be honest, it's hard for me to stand it as his attorney, and we respect laws, but we also respect the constitution, and there has to be a change right now."

Watch the video from Fox News below or at this link.