Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump’s attorney and senior adviser, said at a recent event in Oklahoma that Trump will help restore core human values if he is elected.
On Monday, speaking with Trump’s son, Eric Trump, and the pastor at Sheridan.Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Habba reflected on the emotional experience of learning about the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt on Trump.
Habba said she was supposed to be in Butler with Trump but stayed home, adding that she “kept calling him, Eric and Don” and was “hysterically crying.”
She told pastor Jackson Lahmeyer: “In that moment when you see somebody on the ground and you think they’ve died, you realize that this isn’t just a president, he was going to save our country and he’s my friend, and I was devastated, and he’s a human being and I think America forgets that these are human beings.”
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On July 13, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight rounds at Trump at the Butler Farm Show, grazing the former president’s right ear, killing rally-goer Corey Comperatore, and injuring two other attendees. Crooks was killed by a Secret Service countersniper. The FBI has been investigating the incident as an assassination attempt.
A second attempt on Trump’s life took place on September 15, when a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle sticking out of a fence at Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump was playing. The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, then fled the scene but was arrested that day.
“We’ve forgotten how to be polite,” Habba said. “We’ve forgotten how to be respectful of different opinions and I know that President Trump will get us back there. He really will.”
Newsweek has reached out to Habba’s law office for comment via email on Thursday.
The 2024 presidential election is extremely competitive and polarized.
In a Fox News Sunday Morning Futures interview this week, Trump said about Election Day: “I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within….We have some very bad people, some sick people, radical left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has called his rhetoric “dangerous,” saying at a Pennsylvania rally on Monday that Trump “considers anybody who doesn’t support him or will not bend to his will an enemy of our country.”
