Trump Lawyer Says Georgia Case Being Tried Outside Federal Court ‘By Design’

Trump attorney Alina Habba says the charges against the former president were purposefully laid in a state court for this reason.

Alina Habba, a spokeswoman for Donald Trump, walks toward a media scrum outside the federal courthouse in Miami, Fla., on June 13, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Alina Habba, attorney for former President Donald Trump and general counsel for the Save America PAC, says the Georgia charges belong in federal court.

She told Newsmax on Wednesday morning that this was all “by design,” and that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “did it on purpose so that if he is president, he can’t pardon himself if he’s convicted. ... We will probably be asking for a removal to another venue and to move it to federal court.”