'I'm confident': Alina Habba says she expects Trump's $464M debt will be dismissed

Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba is banking on the $464 million civil debt racked up in the New York fraud case being thrown out.

"Despite the fact that witnesses frankly had said that they were great clients, we all made money, they did nothing wrong, we got slammed with this egregious number, and I'm confident we'll overturn it," she said during an interview with the online podcast X22 Report, which was reported by Newsweek.

Habba claimed in the interview that New York Attorney General Letitia James had set the Trump Organization up for certain defeat.

"We lost before we even walked in," she said.

In the summer leading up to the trial, Judge Arthur Engoron determined that former President Donald Trump and his company had committed fraud for years while raising his real estate profile and making a successful bid for the White House.

He found Trump liable for fraud, and the trial that took place later in the year was largely to decide damages.

“In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies,” Engoron wrote in his 35-page ruling. “That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”

At the conclusion of the trial, he then determined the disgorgement that the Trump and his company amassed by deceiving banks, insurers and loaners by inflating the value of his properties and net worth to secure better deals and loans.

Habba noted that the "damages trial" was one-sided.

"And of course the left wants to paint it as this massive loss, the reality is, she [James] had it in the bag. We had a judge that was definitely partial to her side," Habba said.

The president is being forced to come up with a nearly a half-billion dollar bond; something that so far he's proven unable to do.

On Monday, Trump's attorneys told the court that "posting a full undertaking" of the bond "is a practical impossibility."

According to the lawyers, “The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude."

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Habba, who spoke to the outlet before Trump's team admitted he can't find the cash to pay the damages, claims the amount is beyond reasoning and the trial was purely political.

"There's no question this was political," she said. "It's not even from the beginning — it's before the beginning.

"It's before. [James] got into office that she said she was going to do this. She ran on getting Trump. She said she was going to go into Trump Tower...that is political prosecution."

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