President Donald Trump as he leaves the White House for a visit to Nashville, Tennessee, in Washington D.C on May twenty ninth, 2018.
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Former President Donald Trump is “sad” but not afraid about the opportunity of being criminally charged in Recent York City over a hush money payment to a porn star, one in all his lawyers said Tuesday.
“No, he is not scared,” said the attorney Alina Habba, after she left an unrelated civil Manhattan Supreme Court hearing for the Recent York Attorney General Office’s $250 million fraud lawsuit against Trump, NBC News reported.
Asked what Trump’s frame of mind has been in recent days, Habba said, “He’s sad [about] what is going on on.”
Trump in a social media post over the weekend said he expected to be arrested Tuesday on an indictment within the criminal probe by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
That appeared unlikely as of Tuesday afternoon because the grand jury that has been hearing evidence within the case is off until Wednesday.
The DA’s office for weeks has presented testimony and evidence to that panel a few $130,000 payment Trump’s then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen gave porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election to maintain her quiet about an alleged sexual tryst with Trump.
The probe is targeted on the Trump Organization classifying reimbursement to Cohen as legal expenses in business records.
Such a misstatement could qualify as a felony if done to cover up one other crime, on this case a campaign finance violation to which Cohen has pleaded guilty.
Trump denies having sex with Daniels, and says the investigation is politically motivated.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba walks outside the Trump Tower after a message was posted on the Truth Social account of former U.S. President Donald Trump stating that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, and called on his supporters to protest, in Recent York City, U.S. March 21, 2023.Â
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Habba, who will not be representing Trump within the criminal case, on Tuesday echoed her client, the leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
“As you understand I’m not on the DA’s case, obviously not a criminal attorney, but I believe I can speak what everyone within the country is waking as much as, which is that former President Trump and possibly future President trump has been completely unfairly treated,” Habba said.
“That is is a politicization of our justice system frankly,” she said. “I hope that everybody’s eyes are open. [It] could be an ideal mistake to indict President Trump.”
Daniels earlier Tuesday tweeted at a Trump fan: “And I won’t walk, I’ll dance down the road when he’s ‘chosen’ to go to jail.”
