'Spitting the truth': Alina Habba plays up apparent demotion from Trump's legal team

Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba says she has transitioned to a new role after serving as his attorney in previous fraud and defamation cases that resulted in more than a half billion dollars in penalties.

Habba won't represent the former president in his Manhattan criminal trial of charges that he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, saying that she will instead serve as Trump's "legal adviser," reported The Independent.

“I plan, for the next six weeks, to truly just be spitting the truth and giving people facts they may not be hearing while he’s in court," Habba told “The Benny Show," hosted by right-wing journalist Benny Johnson.

Habba suggested she wasn't involved in the hush money case because she's not a criminal attorney, so she would instead serve as an adviser and media surrogate.

"The great news is, then I can do this and let everybody know what’s actually happening," she said.

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Habba has inaccurately claimed the statute of limitations had run out on the crimes with which Trump is charged and argued that Judge Juan Merchan should recuse himself, echoing the former president's own claims that the judge's daughter's work with Democratic Party clients makes him biased.

She's also expressed concern the trial was being held in Manhattan — where the crimes allegedly took place.

“I’m concerned, I really am," Habba said. "I know what New York juries are really like … We’re in a blue state, they did that on purpose. That’s why we’re in Georgia, that’s why we’re in Washington [D.C.].”

“I’ve lost faith in our judicial system," she added.