President-elect Donald Trump introduced that his private lawyer Alina Habba will be a part of his White House group and function counselor to the president.
“She has been unwavering in her loyalty, and unmatched in her resolve —standing with me via quite a few ‘trials,’ battles and numerous days in Court,” he stated in an announcement Sunday.
Habba has risen in prominence amongst Trump’s authorized circle, turning into one in all his most high-profile legal professionals and his frequent defender on tv.
The 40-year-old managing associate of Habba Madaio & Associates LLP represented him in a sequence of authorized challenges, together with in a defamation lawsuit from a former “Apprentice” contestant, Summer Zervos, who accused him of sexual assault. Habba established a case that led the contestant to drop her lawsuit.
Trump additionally tapped Habba when his niece Mary Trump sued him for dishonest her out of an inheritance, a case that was dismissed. In addition, Habba helped Trump sue his niece over her position in offering reporters on the New York Times together with his monetary paperwork.
Habba made headlines earlier this 12 months when she quarreled in courtroom with US District Judge Lewis Kaplan throughout a civil lawsuit in opposition to Trump by recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll over sexual assault within the Nineteen Nineties.
She additionally served as a senior adviser for the principle tremendous PAC supporting Trump’s 2024 reelection bid, Make America Great Again Inc. Habba develop into a dependable surrogate for the marketing campaign, typically showing at occasions similar to Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Separately Sunday, Trump named Christopher Landau to be his deputy secretary of state.
“Chris will work intently with our nice Secretary of State Nominee, Marco Rubio, to advertise our Nation’s safety and prosperity via an America First Foreign Policy,” Trump stated in a submit on his Truth Social platform. “Chris served as my Ambassador to Mexico, the place he labored tirelessly with our group to cut back unlawful migration to the bottom ranges in History.”
Michael Needham, a former senior Rubio aide, will function counselor on the State Department and Michael Anton, an alum of the primary Trump administration, will function director of coverage planning on the State Department.