Social media users claimed Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba accused a New York judge of taking a $10 million bribe to "convict" Trump. But this is unfounded.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : An appeals court lowered the bond to $175 million and Trump posted a bond in that amount April 1.
30% : None of these accounts are authentic because Habba doesn't have a Telegram account, her spokesperson said.(Screengrabs from Telegram)The social media posts also wrongly claim that Engoron convicted Trump.
20% : Civil court cases, such as the one Trump lost in New York, can involve disputes about money and debts, property, injuries, marriage or children.
19% : He took a $10,000,000 BRIBE from Joe Biden's shell companies to convict Donald Trump!"TikTok identified this video as part of its efforts to counter inauthentic, misleading or false content.
14% : A March 19 TikTok video showed still images of Alina Habba, an attorney representing Trump, and Arthur Engoron, the New York Supreme Court justice presiding over Trump's civil business fraud case.
12% : We rate the claim that Habba said on Telegram that Engoron took a "$10 million bribe from Joe Biden's shell companies to convict Donald Trump" False.
11% : In February, Engoron ruled that Trump and the Trump Organization must pay $454 million for fraudulently inflating Trump's net worth.

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