{"id":135052,"date":"2024-12-09T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135052"},"modified":"2024-12-09T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:50:52","slug":"trump-taps-alina-habba-to-serve-as-counselor-to-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135052","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Alina Habba to serve as counselor to the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as counselor to the president. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her resolve \u2014 standing with me through numerous \u2018trials,\u2019 battles and countless days in Court,\u201d Trump posted on his social network Truth Social. \u201cFew understand the Weaponization of the \u2018Injustice\u2019 System better than Alina.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Trump became the first former American president to be <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0\">convicted of felony crimes<\/a><\/span> when a New York jury in May found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex.<\/p>\n<p>In Trump\u2019s first term, the position of counselor was held by Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway. Habba has Iraqi ancestry and is Chaldean, which is Iraq\u2019s largest Christian denomination and one of the Catholic Church\u2019s Eastern rites.<\/p>\n<p>Habba frequently accompanied Trump on the campaign trail and was one of the speakers at the late October rally in New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Trump also announced he is bringing back former staffer Michael Anton to serve as director of policy planning at the State Department. Anton served as the National Security Council spokesman from 2017 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he also will be appointing Michael Needham, a former chief of staff for Sen. Marco Rubio, as counselor of the State Department. The Florida senator was chosen by Trump to be his next secretary of state.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alina-habba-trump-attorney-white-house-942238382acd7cb36088fe870a47ee59\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. 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