Outside former President Trump's NYC fraud trial, his lawyer Alina Habba tore into New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron.
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00:00 I'm not here to hear what he has to say.
00:05 That was what rang true, loud, and could not have been more honest, coming from the judge
00:13 who was already predetermined that my client committed fraud before we even walked into this courtroom.
00:21 I'm not here to hear what he has to say.
00:25 Then why exactly am I being paid as an attorney and why exactly are taxpayer dollars being used in this courtroom?
00:34 The answer is very clear.
00:36 Because Ms. James wants to stand right here like she did this morning and call my client a liar.
00:43 Call the company fraudulent and make a name for herself.
00:49 She said this morning that the numbers don't lie and they won't lie in this case.
00:55 Well, Ms. James, I have a message for you.
00:57 The numbers didn't lie when you ran for governor and that's why you dropped out.
01:02 And the numbers don't lie when President Trump runs for office in 2024.
01:07 And those numbers are loud and clear.
01:10 This country is falling apart.
01:13 And if we don't stop corruption in courtrooms where attorneys are gagged,
01:20 where attorneys are not allowed to say what they need to say to protect their clients' interests,
01:25 it doesn't matter what your politics are.
01:27 Everyone has a right in this country to get up and put a defense.
01:33 I don't care who you are.
01:35 You have a right to hire a lawyer who can put objections on the record.
01:39 You have a right to hire a lawyer who can stand up and say something when they see something wrong.
01:46 But I was told to sit down today.
01:48 I was yelled at, and I've had a judge who is unhinged slamming a table.
01:54 Let me be very clear. I don't tolerate that in my life.
01:57 I'm not going to tolerate it here.
01:59 And you know what? You shouldn't either.
02:01 Because not every American citizen gets a camera and a microphone.
02:05 And what I'm seeing is such a demise of American judicial system and democracy.
02:11 Ms. James came out this morning and said that she knew Mr. Trump.
02:16 She always calls him Mr. Trump because it tells her that he was the president.
02:20 But the 45th president of this country, one of the best presidents we've had, has built a great company.
02:26 It's worth a ton more than that statement of financial condition.
02:29 And she doesn't know how to get out of it because her politics won't allow her.
02:33 She calls him a bully.
02:35 She says he's going to bring out racial slurs.
02:38 He's going to say things today and taunt her.
02:41 Well, Ms. James, you taunted him.
02:44 Before you came into office, before you saw one record, one statement of financial condition, you taunted him.
02:51 You said his administration was too male and too pale.
02:58 Those are her words.
03:01 She said that she and Michael Cohen were going to be his biggest nightmare.
03:07 Well, I have some news for you, Ms. James.
03:09 Michael Cohen folded, lied, and crumbled.
03:12 Your star witness, along with all the DAs and corrupt AGs, need to be paying attention to what happens when you let us take the stand.
03:21 When you let my client speak the truth and the judge can tell me to sit down and he can try and shorten my client's testimony.
03:29 But it is loud and clear.
03:32 They've got nothing.
03:34 They've got nothing but their politics.
03:36 She's got nothing but her sorrows backing, which we discovered recently.
03:40 And I am sick and tired of seeing it.
03:42 Pay attention, America.
03:44 Pay attention.
03:46 Because when you're in court one of these days and you don't have a lawyer that has a microphone, and you don't have a lawyer that can go on TV, and you've got judges gagging them, what are you going to do?
03:56 We need to fix this country.
03:59 And we need to stop what is happening in this courtroom.
04:02 President Trump is worth a lot more and she wasn't ready for it.
04:05 She doesn't understand it.
04:07 And before she rushed to judgment, she should have thought about attacking somebody with over 50 years of real estate expertise who changed single-handedly the skyline of New York City.
04:18 She picked the wrong person.
04:20 And her politics will fail for it.