Alina Habba bashed Judge Arthur Engoron during an interview Tuesday, claiming Trump's civil court trial is being run like a 'banana republic.'
Alina Habba, Donald Trump's lead defense attorney in his business fraud trial, claimed that the New York judge presiding over the case 'executed' the former president's legal team before the trial even began.Trump is facing a $250 million lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James over allegations that the former president inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to obtain financial benefits. Trump's two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr.
Habba has been blamed for not requesting that a jury be used in the civil trial, but the Trump attorney previously argued that the case was filed under New York Executive Law 63 , where she claims a jury is not generally required.' executed us before we walked into the courtroom,' Habba told Kirk Tuesday. 'He granted a motion before we started the trial saying that we were liable, and he is firm on that.''We really are in a banana republic in there,' she added.
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