Alina Habba accompanies Trump to UFC fight — while Melania is a no-show – Raw Story
Melania Trump declined to make Saturday's UFC fight a date night with her husband, Donald Trump, but attorney Alina Habba was a fill-in for the former president's wife.
Video shared on social media showed Habba in Trump's entourage as he entered the Las Vegas arena for the match between Colby Covington and Leon Edwards.
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Habba later posted images of herself at the fight on Instagram.
Trump's attorney was seen at a previous UFC fight wearing a necklace with the letter FJB — meaning, "F–k Joe Biden." Trump also attended that match.
Attorney Alina Habba hinted on Sunday that Donald Trump could award her with a government position so she could go after the former president's enemies if he wins another term.
Habba, a lawyer for Trump, made the remarks at a Turning Point Action conference.
"But that is what they do," she told the crowd. "They hide what they've done by going after Trump. Look at the shiny ball, everybody. Don't look at us."
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"Well, they've got one year, and then we're going to be looking at them, deep and hard," she said.
Habba suggested that she could be one of the people inside the government tasked with attacking Trump's enemies.
"I'll tell you right now, if I'm in Washington, I'll be relentless, too," she insisted.
Watch the video below from Turning Point Action.
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI suggested there is a real possibility that a Russian intelligence file that went missing near the end of Donald Trump's presidency could have ended up in Russian hands.
Speaking with host Alex Witt, a clearly distressed Frank Figliuzzi admitted he wants to know how exactly the Department of Justice is handling the investigation into the missing ten-inch binder that contained raw intelligence reports compiled by U.S and foreign intelligence members.
Figliuzzi noted that both White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and Donald Trump have both pointed the finger at former White House chief of staff Mark Maedaows, with the ex-FBI official suggesting a warrant needs to be approved to search Meadows' home.
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"What is the special counsel doing about this?" he proposed to the MSNBC host. "What is DOJ do about this missing binder? And the evidence is that it appears the former chief of staff has it."
"Should be we looking, for example, at a search warrant of Meadows? Is this a part of Jack Smith's investigation? Have they rolled this into that or opened a new case or grand jury on Meadows?" he continued. "
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'We've got to know what happened with this binder, and more importantly, whether this was a mere accident, or whether the intention was to hand it to Russia to expose U.S. intel sources and methods against Russia," he concluded.
Watch below or at the link.
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Former RNC Chair Reince Priebus clashed with former DNC Chair Donna Brazile over the claim that GOP voters want "more blood" in the 2024 campaign.
During a panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, ABC analyst Averi Harper reflected on Nazi-style rhetoric used in Trump's campaign speeches.
"He has really had this real intense flirtation with authoritarian leaders," Harper said. "He has spoken to and echoed back to lines that have to do with Hitler, right?"
"He did not speak about migrants or immigrants from Europe, right?" she continued. "Poisoning the blood was the phrase he used, which is obviously an incredibly loaded phrase. Like the vermin phrase, the word that he used. And this is rhetoric that he continues to use on the trail."
Host Jonathan Karl recalled that Priebus had tried to convince Trump to condemn former KKK leader David Duke during the 2016 campaign.
"Do you worry that, you know, does he rush us towards this nomination, that he's going off those into those places that you tried to keep him from going?" Karl asked.
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"Not particularly, because I think you're all misreading the electorate," Priebus insisted. "I think that the electorate is not looking for less blood. I think they're looking for more blood."
"I think, as I've said before, people are looking for a bigger middle finger this time than they were in 2016," he added.
Brazile interrupted.
"Mr. Chairman, let me just say this," she began. "You're talking about taking millions of people off their health care, which is Donald Trump. He is pledged to do that. That's blood."
"You're talking about suspending the United States Constitution, something that Donald Trump has said," she noted. "You know what I don't get? I don't get the fact that you're willing to stand up for someone who's praising dictators as he did."
"Listen, what I'm doing here, Donna, OK, I am telling you what the reality on the ground is," Priebus scoffed. "And if you can convince me that those 100,000 [swing voters] are worried about Donald Trump suspending the Constitution."
"You know, even though he said that on multiple occasions," Karl observed.
"You have to be able to convince people that are voting that he means what he says," Priebus argued.
Watch the video below from ABC.
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