Former President Donald Trump’s legal spokesperson Alina Habba on Sunday suggested that he will not have to do much prep work for his pending trials.
Attorney Alina Habba was asked on Fox News how Trump, 77, is able to juggle his legal predicaments with his 2024 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
“If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern. President Trump is not your average person. He’s incredibly intelligent,” Habba told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream.
“He also knows the facts because he lived them,” Habba continued. “What is he going to have to be prepped for, the truth? You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”
Bream had laid out a timeline of Trump’s various indictments and stressed that he could face up to 700 years behind bars if convicted on all 91-counts against him.
Habba, who doubles as a legal spokesperson for Trump and general counsel for the Trump-aligned Save America PAC, predicted that the crammed timeline will loosen up for the former president.
“These trial dates also are going to move. It’s unrealistic, it’s theatrics, and no judge is going to say that you can be on two trials at once in two different states because a lot of these overlap,” she stressed.
Alina Habba has previously represented Donald Trump in court and also served as a senior adviser to the MAGA, Inc. Super PAC.FOX News
Donald Trump pictured with Alina Habba.JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
“They’re going to have to go into October, November of next year, again, by design,” Habba added, contending that she has “zero concerns” about Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.
Last Thursday, Trump was booked in the notoriously filthy and insect-ridden Fulton County Jail on the 13-count indictment against him over alleged 2020 election tampering in Georgia.
Donald Trump’s mug shot proved to be quite lucrative for his campaign.AP
His campaign later touted a $7.1 million fundraising bonanza over the 48-hour period after that booking, which featured his scowl-faced mug shot.
In addition to the Fulton County indictment, he is facing a 34-count indictment out of Manhattan, a 40-count federal indictment for alleged hoarding of classified documents, and a four-count federal indictment for alleged 2020 election subversion.
Trump has denied wrongdoing across the board.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has lodged two different indictments against Donald Trump for alleged classified document hoarding and 2020 election interference. AP
Fulton County District Attorney levied the most recent 13-count indictment against the former president.Getty Images
The ex-president has pleaded not guilty to both federal indictments and the one brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
He is set to be arraigned on the Fulton County indictment next month.
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