Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s disputed acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, expressed frustration about being labeled a “political hack.”
This week, Habba responded to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after he was hit with an ethics complaint for urging New Jersey judges to oust her as acting U.S. attorney.
In a July statement, Jeffries said he was “speaking the truth about Donald Trump’s so-called U.S. attorney in New Jersey.”
“She is woefully unqualified and is a political hack,” Jeffries remarked at the time. “Alina Habba, you are a complete and total disgrace. I don’t give a damn about this so-called ethics complaint.”
On Tuesday, Habba told Real America’s Voice host Eric Bolling that she had never met Jeffries.
“I’m not a political hack!” she insisted. “I’m an attorney licensed in four states. I’ve been licensed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and I have practiced law for the better of 20 years, and run law firms for most of 15 that were been extremely successful despite what the Twitter trolls would like to say.”
“Name-calling is kind of beneath me, to be honest,” she continued. “I’m a really accomplished attorney. I’m very proud of the work that I’ve done. And quite honestly, a fierce defender of the Constitution, a patriot, and I love this country.”
Habba took exception to being labeled a “so-called U.S. attorney.”
“My name is Alina Habba. I’m an attorney, and I’ve been practicing for a very long time, and I am sick and tired of the name-calling. I think it is exactly the toxicity that this country is done with,” she said. “Just because they didn’t like the outcome of it does not mean that you get to name-call a federal official. So, you know, it’s shame on him.”
In June, Habba’s office charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers during a visit to a federal immigration facility.