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Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year, also serving
as his legal spokesperson. Habba has been spending time with the
president-elect since the election at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago.
“She has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her
resolve — standing with me through numerous ‘trials,’ battles
and countless days in Court," Trump posted on his social network
Truth Social. “Few understand the Weaponization of the
‘Injustice’ System better than Alina.”
Trump became the first former American president to be convicted
of felony crimes when a New York jury in May found him guilty of
all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016
election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said
the two had sex.
In Trump's first term, the position of counselor was held by
Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway. Habba has Iraqi ancestry
and is Chaldean, which is Iraq’s largest Christian denomination
and one of the Catholic Church’s Eastern rites.
Habba frequently accompanied Trump on the campaign trail and was
one of the speakers at the late October rally in New York's
Madison Square Garden.
On Sunday, Trump also announced he is bringing back former
staffer Michael Anton to serve as director of policy planning at
the State Department. Anton served as the National Security
Council spokesman from 2017 to 2018.
Trump said he also will be appointing Michael Needham, a former
chief of staff for Sen. Marco Rubio, as counselor of the State
Department. The Florida senator was chosen by Trump to be his
next secretary of state.
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