'Manifest injustice — plain and simple': Alina Habba lashes out at Trump verdict
Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba complained Friday that Judge Arthur Engoron's more than $350 million ruling against her client was unfair.
"This verdict is a manifest injustice — plain and simple," Habba said in a statement.
Habba contends Engoron's "big, big, big, big numbers" verdict — which also banned Trump from doing business in New York for three years — was proof of the political hit job she and her client have been bemoaning for months.
"It is the culmination of a multi-year, politically fueled witch hunt that was designed to 'take down Donald Trump,'" Habba said, "before Letitia James ever stepped foot into the Attorney General’s office."
The former president, his adult sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and other top executives at the Trump Organization were found liable by the judge for filing falsified financial records in a decades-long fraud scheme, the ruling shows.
Eric and Donald Jr. were hit with damages of more than $4 million each, Engoron ruled. Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was found liable for $1 million.
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X users who viewed Habba's response to the blockbuster ruling were not impressed by her assessment.
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