Trump lawyer Alina Habba rips NY judge for suggesting ex-prez may have to miss son Barron’s high school graduation
NY Post
Former President Donald Trump’s civil lawyer Alina Habba slammed the judge in his New York hush money trial for suggesting he might not be able to attend his youngest son’s high school graduation — and for not calling off the proceedings on Passover.
“You’re not even allowing a father — never mind a former president — but a father [to] attend his son’s graduation,” Habba lamented to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night, following the first day of jury selection in the former president’s criminal trial.
“And let’s not forget Passover, OK?” the attorney — who made headlines as a member of Trump’s defense team in his civil fraud trial and in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit — continued.
“Observant Jews have a right to go and pray to who they want and observe Passover. And this judge would not allow it. Not for any of the attorneys,” Habba said of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
“And there are observant Jewish attorneys on the Trump team as well [as] on the DA team,” she noted. “It’s just a sad state of affairs for the American people, I could tell you that.”
Habba, in a separate appearance on conservative podcast “The Benny Show,” explained why she wasn’t at the high-profile proceedings — the first criminal trial of a current or former US president — because she reps Trump in civil matters.
