Alina Habba, one of former President Trump's lawyers, said the New York hush-money case should be a “warning” after the judge postponed sentencing Trump until after the election and dismissed it as a “travesty.”
Haba Participated Fox News' Sean Hannity is scheduled to discuss the case on Saturday after Judge Juan Marchand postponed Trump's sentencing until Nov. 26, handing the victory to the Republican candidate.
“This is a travesty,” she said of the case. “There's a lot wrong with this case. It should be thoroughly reprimanded. The judge, in my opinion, should be reprimanded, number one, for not dismissing the case and continuing to waste taxpayer money.”
“What the American people and the city of New York are seeing is a travesty, an atrocity,” Hubba continued. “That's why crime is happening, that's why people are fleeing.”
Judge Marchan was originally scheduled to rule on Trump on September 18, but was granted a delay after Trump said he would appeal if the judge did not dismiss the case following the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity. The judge said the ruling would ensure that the November presidential election would not be affected by the ruling, and vice versa.
Haba argued Saturday that “the entire case is flawed” given the immunity rulings that largely exempt former presidents from criminal prosecution for actions while in office.
She previously expressed little optimism that New York courts would “get the right decision” in the case, and on Saturday she expressed further anguish.
“I appreciate that he's putting it off because he doesn't want to be seen as doing what I and you call election interference, which is election interference, and that's great, but frankly, this case should be dismissed,” Hubba told Hannity.
“So I don't mind procrastinating, but honestly, Sean, this should be completely withdrawn,” she added.
Trump was found guilty by a New York jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records stemming from hush money payments he made to adult film stars to cover up past allegations of extramarital affairs during the 2016 election cycle. The verdict made Trump the first sitting and former president to be convicted in a criminal trial.
The payments were made before he took office, but Trump's lawyers argue that jurors improperly used social media posts from his time in the Oval Office and other evidence protected by the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision.
