Counselor to the president pick Alina Habba was scolded by judge in Trump's defamation trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Interest is continuing to accrue on both those judgments, which Trump has appealed.
47% : In announcing her appointment, Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday that Habba has been "unwavering in her loyalty, and unmatched in her resolve - standing with me through numerous 'trials,' battles, and countless days in Court.
31% : Trump has also nominated two of his defense attorneys from his New York criminal trial, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, for the number two and number three positions at the Justice Department.
30% : Tangling with judges at trialAt the Carroll trial in January, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan repeatedly chided or reproached Habba about her representation of Trump in court, sometimes seeming to doubt her trial expertise.
24% : "Habba represented Trump in his latest trial against New York writer E. Jean Carroll, in which a federal jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defamation in January.
19% : She also represented Trump in his New York civil fraud case, in which a New York state trial judge determined Trump owed $454 million as of February for inflating the value of his assets to get better loan and insurance terms.
9% : Sauer has represented Trump in his appeals across multiple cases, including arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that Trump was immune from prosecution for official acts in Trump's federal election interference criminal case, which was dropped by the Justice Department in the wake of Trump's election.

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