Ex-Trump staffer thrown out of victory party after Alina Habba photo
A former Trump campaign staffer was removed from the ex-president’s victory party in New Hampshire after posting a photo with his attorney Alina Habba, who had excused herself from court claiming to be ill.
During the January 6 Capitol riot, ex-staffer Dylan Quattrucci was also seen on video telling “piece of s***” police officers to take their lives, Mediaite noted.
On Monday, Donald Trump shared his frustration at a delay in his defamation trial brought by writer E Jean Carroll, who won a previous defamation trial against the former president in which a jury found him liable for sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. Mr Trump lashed out at the delay despite it being his own legal team who made the call.
A juror was sent home sick but the judge and the legal team for Ms Carroll were willing to carry on. Mr Trump’s team asked for a delay as Ms Habba said she had been exposed to Covid-19, had a fever and was feeling unwell.
But it was later revealed that Ms Habba was seen at Mr Trump’s victory party after winning the GOP primary in New Hampshire despite having claimed to be ill just hours previously.
Ms Habba was photographed at the party alongside Mr Quattrucci, who shared the image on X.
“Just arrived at President Trump’s NH primary victory party and ran into the wonderful Alina Habba. Alina is President Trump’s rockstar attorney & a huge inspiration of mine!” he wrote.
The former staffer shared a number of photos from the festivities, but shortly before NBC News reported Ms Habba’s presence, Mr Quatrucci posted a video of him being removed from the premises.
“I was just kicked out of the Trump victory party for absolutely no reason,” he wrote on X. “I was