Alina Habba: Donald Trump taps attorney for counsellor [Video]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing one of his defence attorneys in the New York hush money case as counsellor to the president.

Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year, also serving as his legal spokesperson. Habba has been spending time with the president-elect since the election at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago.

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“She has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her resolve — standing with me through numerous ‘trials,’ battles and countless days in Court,” Trump posted on his social network Truth Social. “Few understand the Weaponization of the ‘Injustice’ System better than Alina.”

Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes when a New York jury in May found him …