Who is Trump's Lawyer - Alina Saad Habba?

Alina Saad Habba (born March 25, 1984) is an Assyrian American lawyer and Managing Partner of Habba, Madaio & Associates LLP, a five-person legal firm based in Bedminster, New Jersey, with an office in New York City. Habba is currently (November, 2023) representing former US president Donald Trump and is also a senior advisor for MAGA, Inc., Trump's Super PAC.

Trump attorney Alina Habba joined "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on November 12, 2023, to discuss the latest on the former president's NYC civil fraud case. Fox News© Fox News

Habba told Bartiromo that she would be filing for a mistrial but said the judge was the same judge who issued a gag order.

"These accusations that he overvalued assets what kind of third party people did you have or did Donald Trump have in terms of doing their own evaluation because, I mean, when you — go to get deals you have to get auditors to okay the valuations that you put in, right? Did you have auditors to do that?" Bartiromo asked.

Habba said Trump had an accounting firm put together a compilation and added that the lenders he worked with were "sophisticated lenders," such as Deutsche Bank. 

"They weren’t harmed, they were paid on time, they were paid with interest, they made money. But Letitia James is putting her nose into private companies and private individuals' work, which is not what is meant to happen and the law that she’s using is a consumer fraud law. 

So that she can establish some way to have control, to not have a jury to do certain things in this case that are nonsensical and shouldn’t be happening and we have been fighting it all along the way. 

The problem we have is the judge is the one that’s going make those decisions and he’s proven himself to be quite motivated by the other side," Habba said. 

Legal Team Failed to Request Jury Trial

According to New York Attorney General Letitia James, the court has already found Trump guilty of fraud. “We are now in the phase of how much money Trump must return to the state of New York.”

Habba, has denied suggestions that the former president is not getting a jury trial in his New York $250 million fraud civil case because his legal team did not request one in legal filings.

On the first day of proceedings, Judge Arthur Engoron told the Manhattan courtroom that "nobody asked for" a jury trial, and that is why the outcome of the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James will be decided by the judge in a bench trial.

Legal experts said that all Trump's legal team had to do to request a jury trial was to tick a box in court filings, with some suggesting that Habba herself failed to do so. In late July, James' office filed papers to request a trial without jury, which is common for civil cases, with Trump's legal team apparently not opposing the request.

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman was one of those who suggested Trump's legal team are to blame for there not being a jury to decide his fate in New York.

"It's incredibly easy to ask for a jury trial. You just check a box on a form," Litman posted on X, formerly Twitter. "Hard to believe that Trump understood that his lawyers hadn't done it when he's been savaging the judge who is now the factfinder in his huge fraud trial."

Katie Phang, a lawyer and MSNBC legal analyst, added: "So Alina Habba didn't demand a jury trial?! I wonder how Trump feels about this screw-up by his legal team."

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