CNN’s Jake Tapper cut away from Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba as she was speaking outside a New York courthouse following a verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation damages trial on Friday. The jury ordered the former president to pay the writer an additional $83.3 million for attacking her and calling her sexual assault allegation against him a lie.
“All right, so, you’re getting an idea now about why Donald Trump’s attorney is perceived as effective as she is, which is not particularly effective,” Tapper said as the network pulled away from Habba’s incensed remarks.
“No, I’m not having any second thoughts about representing President Trump. It is the proudest thing I could ever do,” Habba said in response to a reporter as she came up to the microphones to speak.
“What I am having second thoughts about is the license that I stand here with that the people in there are supposed to have,” Trump’s attorney added before launching into her grievances with the Carroll trial as well as the several other active cases against the former president.
