Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba says she is not feeling optimistic about her client’s chances in the Manhattan hush money case.
In a Newsmax interview Wednesday Habba told host Greg Kelly, “I don’t have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing, that the jury will do the right thing.”
“We’re in a blue state, as you know, Greg and I think everything’s by design,” she continued, according to a clip shared by Mediaite. “We’re in a case that was eight years old, over the statute of limitations, was denied by [former Manhattan District Attorney] Cy Vance, then brought only after President Trump decided he was going to run for office.”
Trump is on trial in New York where he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records tied to hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover-up his alleged extramarital affair.
This week jurors heard testimony from former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker describing the “catch and kill” scheme —where the magazine buys rights to stories and decline to publish them.
The scheme is central to the case and prosecutors allege that the hush money payment Pecker helped facilitate was part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Trump has denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
However, Habba, who is not representing Trump in the case, showed up outside the court on Monday and appeared to admit that Trump is guilty.
“We’re here because of something that happened when he was in the White House that wasn’t even wrong,” she told reporters.
