Alina Habba reveals her new role on Trump’s legal team: ‘Spitting the truth’

Donald Trump’s lawyerAlina Habba has rebranded herself as a “legal adviser” to the former president as he goes on criminal trial for the first time in his hush money case.

Mr Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the so-called hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence over an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

The former president has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has repeatedly denied the affair.

While Ms Habba is not representing Mr Trump in the hush money case, she was on his legal team for the E Jean Carroll civil case.

Mr Trump lost that case and was forced to pay Ms Carroll a massive sum in damages.

But, on the first day of his historic criminal trial in New York, Ms Habba announced that she is serving as his legal adviser and will now be speaking on his behalf since he is subject to a gag order.

Speaking on “The Benny Show” on 15 April, Ms Habba said: “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.”

Ms Habba suggested she isn’t representing him because she isn’t a criminal attorney, “but the great news is, then I can do this and let everybody know what’s actually happening”.

The attorney slammed the hush money trial – which entered its second day of jury selection on Tuesday – calling it the “ultimate sham of a case” and claiming it was brought out of “desperation”.

Ms Habba also claimed that, after years of investigating the case and not bringing any charges, when Mr Trump “decided to run for office again… somehow an indictment came running on down”.

Her comments parrot what Mr Trump’s legal team have argued to the judge