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Alina Habba, attorney for former President Trump, strongly reacted following a contentious judgment from the New York City court that imposed an $83 million penalty on President Trump. The court held him accountable for his remarks against a woman, E. Jean Carroll, who alleged that he had lured her into a Bergdorf Goodman store 25 or 30 years ago and raped her in a dressing room while trying on lingerie. The entire narrative lacks credibility and resembles something from a Law and Order sketch.
Today, the court mandated President Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll the hefty sum of $83 million for statements he made about her during his presidency in 2019. The prevailing sentiment suggests a limitation on free speech in the country, particularly for Republican lawmakers, Trump supporters, and conservative journalists.
Alina Habba also faced regular mistreatment from Clinton-appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan throughout the trial. In a concerning development on Friday, the left-leaning judge went so far as to threaten to jail Habba for speaking in court.
Attorney Alina Habba: Ladies and gentlemen, you are not allowed to be stripped of every defense that you have. You are not allowed to be told that you can’t bring it up. And imagine a point where a judge tells the lawyer before your client, the former President of the United States, the leading candidate and obvious nominee for the Republican Party, before he takes the stand to defend himself. Ms. Haba, tell me the questions you’re going to ask in open court and tell me exactly what he’s going to respond. And then edited my questions, edited the response he was allowed to give.
And guess what my client did? He took the stand. He abided by the rules of this corrupt system that I have seen.
We will immediately appeal. We will set aside that ridiculous jury. And I just want to remind you all of one thing. I will continue with President Trump to fight for everybody’s first Amendment right to speak. Everybody’s a right to defend themselves when they are wrongfully accused. And to be able to say, I didn’t do it, and to double and triple and quadruple down and say, this is wrong. This is wrong. We are in the state of New York. We are in a New York jury. And that is why we are seeing these witch hunts, these hoaxes, as he calls them, and this is another one of them be brought in New York, in states where they know they will get juries like this.