President Donald Trump’s senior White House legal counsel said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday that anyone working for the Executive Branch who doesn’t have an “America first” attitude will eventually be shown the door. Alina Habba, who served as Trump’s legal spokeswoman throughout his campaign, made the remarks in response to the Justice Department’s acting attorney general firing more than a dozen career prosecutors who volunteered to work for special counsel Jack Smith in prosecuting the current commander-in-chief.
“Why would it be that deep state institutionalists, people that work for Jack Smith, that worked overtime night and day to put Donald Trump in jail, why wouldn’t Donald Trump get to pick his own people? Why would he be stuck with that group of people?” Hannity said to begin the segment.
“I love that you asked me this question, Sean. You know what I would say to all the liberals freaking out? Yeah, no, here we go. Ready? If you’re Biden and I’m in the DOJ, are you leaving me there, Biden? I don’t think so,” Habba said. “Look, the truth of the matter is this. You’re not America first. They were divisiveness. They were the party of attack. They were the party of politicization of the law, fair justice, injustice.
“They made Americans scared of the FBI, scared of the DOJ, feel like they were being attacked for being a Republican or a Democrat,” Habba continued. “And that’s for both sides of the coin. That’s not America. That’s not America. That’s third-world stuff. So it’s the same thing, right? We don’t want people that are political like they were, that volunteered, by the way, they were not appointed to those roles.
Trump WH counselor Alina Habba explains why the DOJ sacked the career prosecutors who worked with Jack Smith to convict the current commander-in-chief.
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“They volunteered to help Jack Smith. Yes, they were in the prosecutor’s office. Yes, they were in the DOJ, but they volunteered to attack Trump,” she added. “Are these people going to be able to say, I am not a political person. I’m not going to attack somebody and raid a child’s bedroom and a wife’s bedroom that did nothing wrong because this is an election season and we need to get Trump out. No, they couldn’t do I assure you they could not do it now.
“I’m welcome to listening to if they believe they could, but I assure you they could not. If you’re not America first, you’re out. And not only that, we’re replacing a lot of people with good people, people that care about America, the Constitution and things that President Trump cares about,” Habba concluded.
