Alina Habba Responds After Video Of Her, Trump, Goes Viral
Charlie Kirk Staff
01/11/2024

Donald Trump spokeswoman and attorney Alina Habba addressed videos of her and the former president that went viral after court appearances this week during an evening interview with the Fox Business Network on Wednesday.
She made her remarks after her client appeared at a federal appeals court hearing in Washington, D.C., to decide whether he is shielded from post-2020 election charges under the auspices of presidential immunity. During the interview, Habba also repeated Trump’s legal team’s arguments that were made before the three-judge panel.
“Absolute immunity is called just that on purpose,” she told host Elizabeth MacDonald. “It’s a very simple fact that all presidents are granted presidential immunity within the scope of their employment within the outer perimeters of their employment. I’ve argued about it many times. The hypotheticals that were given [in court] today are just that—they were hypotheticals that do not relate to President Trump. Our team did a great job arguing, and I think that it’s a very simple decision that if it’s decided wrong, if those skeptics are correct, will have to be taken up, but I don’t think that’ll happen.”
“Presidents have to be able to speak without fear as the president and act without fear as a sitting president of retribution, both civilly and criminally,” Habba went on. “And what we’re seeing is absolutely that.
“They like to call President Trump a person who’s going to have a retribution campaign, but that is exactly what they are doing to him. It is exactly what they fear is what they’ve done themselves,” the attorney noted. “They don’t want you to look at their behavior, so they accused him of it. And now they’re trying to stop him because they can’t beat him in the polls. It’s election interference at its finest.”
While speaking, footage of her and Trump inside the appeals court flashed on the screen.
“The fact that there is so much footage of me sitting in court next to the president is so sad and such a demise of the American justice system,” she said before going back to the immunity argument.
“I can tell you that presidential immunity—something I’ve argued and won many times—[is] something that has to be upheld and should be upheld. It is clear-cut. I think we’ve made that clear. And it is very important, or it’s going to be a slippery slope for every president, not just President Trump,” she said.
After court, Trump declared: “It’s very unfair when a political opponent is prosecuted by the DOJ, by Biden’s DOJ. So they’re losing in every poll, losing in almost every demographic…numbers came out today that are really very mind-boggling if you happen to be Joe Biden,’ Trump remarked from a hotel in the nation’s capital.”