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A “secret pay-for-play” text promising paid access to President Donald Trump is at the center of the latest civil war plaguing the White House, according to a new report from Axios. The Monday report cited a text message received by Turkish businessman Turhan Mildon on May 3, 2025. In the text, the sender claimed that Mildon would be part of “VIP events” and that he would “get close with the administration, even with POTUS,” once he sent money that would be transferred to the Kennedy Center. Mildon claimed the texts were sent by Ric Grenell, a special presidential envoy who...

WASHINGTON — A bitter feud has erupted among President Trump’s close allies as Alina Habba, his former personal attorney who served as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, accuses ex-intelligence director and diplomat Ric Grenell of failing to deposit millions of dollars donated by her Turkish billionaire husband to the Kennedy Center. Habba, 42, married Turhan Mildon, 29, last month and told Trump on Friday in the Oval Office that Grenell failed to deposit $5.6 million from Mildon meant for the center, which Grenell led until March as executive director. The president, who has sought to renovate the performing...

When President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, married a Turkish businessman last month, the lavish ceremony cemented their status as a power couple. Ms. Habba, 42, a longtime Trump loyalist, and Turhan Mildon, 29, an investor, hosted some of Washington’s most powerful people, including Attorney General Todd Blanche, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Will Scharf, the White House counsel. At that point, his patrons could no longer protect him. Mr. Maduro was not only out of power, but sitting in an American jail. Mr. Saab, Mr. Mildon’s most powerful ally in Venezuela, was arrested and extradited to the...

Firebrand MAGA loyalist Alina Habba is marrying a dashing and politically-connected Turkish billionaire 13 years her junior on Saturday - just eight months after her second divorce, the Daily Mail can reveal. New Jersey native Hanna 42, is slated to say 'I do' to 29-year-old Turhan Mildon, who hails from a powerful business dynasty and is a close ally of Turkey's hardline President Recep Erdogan. A gigantic diamond believed to be at least 23-carats weighed down Habba's wedding finger as she clutched what appeared to be a pink ostrich Hermès Birkin bag with an estimated price tag of $30,000. It...

Alina Habba, a fiery Trump loyalist, is stepping down from her role as top prosecutor in New Jersey after an appellate court found last week that Attorney General Pam Bondi had improperly appointed her as U.S. attorney. Bondi announced Monday Habba would serve as the attorney general's senior advisor overseeing U.S. attorneys, while three Department of Justice officials are set to take on additional jobs overseeing various activities in the New Jersey court district in the wake of Habba's resignation. Habba served as President Donald Trump's personal defense lawyer before the president installed her this year as the temporary head...

A federal appeals court said on Monday that Alina Habba had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey, dealing a blow to the Trump administration and most likely setting up a showdown at the Supreme Court. In its ruling, the three-judge panel, based in Philadelphia, affirmed an earlier ruling by a Federal District Court judge, shooting down each of the government’s arguments for why Ms. Habba could continue to serve. In their opinion, the judges wrote that the Trump administration appeared to have become frustrated by the legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S....

U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba Breaks BIG news, announces there will be ELECTION INTEGRITY for the state of New Jersey, her office is committed to guaranteeing free and fair elections. Habba says her Election Integrity Task Force is in full swing, zeroed in on cleaning up New Jersey’s voter rolls to make sure every American’s vote counts: “I created an election integrity task force. We should not have dead people voting. We need these rolls cleaned up. It’s something we should have in this country. People need to feel like their votes count.” “People need to know they...

The conservative legal group, Article III Project, is filing a judicial complaint against a federal judiciary panel of mostly Democrat-appointed judges after they decided not to extend Alina Habba’s term as President Trump’s interim New Jersey US attorney. “House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries corruptly gave 17 New Jersey U.S. district judges their marching orders: ‘Fire New Jersey U.S. Attorney @AlinaHabba,’ “wrote Article III Project president Mike Davis on X following the panel’s decision. “And these New Jersey activist judges—15 of whom were appointed by Obama and Biden—saluted,” Davis continued. “This violated Canons 2, 3, and 5 of the Code of...

Alina Habba on Thursday announced that she is now the Acting US Attorney for New Jersey after district court judges ousted her from her post earlier this week. Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney expires on Friday at 11:59 pm so Trump and Bondi outmaneuvered the activist judges. Habba resigned as Interim US Attorney and is now Acting US Attorney for New Jersey.

The Justice Department on Tuesday said it fired Desiree Leigh Grace as the newly appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, hours after federal judges in the state chose her over President Donald Trump's pick, Alina Habba. The announcement came after federal judges in New Jersey opted not to appoint Habba, Trump's former personal attorney, as the state's top federal prosecutor on a permanent basis. Trump appointed Habba as the state's acting U.S. attorney in March. "This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges -- especially when they threaten the President's core Article II powers," Attorney General...

US Attorney General Pam Bondi promptly fired Alina Habba’s replacement after a group of district court judges voted to oust Habba as interim US Attorney of New Jersey. A group of federal judges on Tuesday declined to extend Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney of New Jersey after Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a pressure campaign to oust her. Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney expires on Friday at 11:59 pm. Hakeem Jeffries called on federal district court judges appointed by Obama and Biden to remove Alina Habba over her decision to indict Rep. LaMonica McIver. On...

New Jersey’s federal judges declined Tuesday to appoint Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in the state, to continue serving in that role, delivering a resounding rebuke to one of his administration’s most polarizing Justice Department appointees.The state’s U.S. district court judges made the announcement in a brief order that did not offer any explanation for their decision. The order — signed by Renee Marie Bumb, the chief federal judge for the District of New Jersey — appointed Desiree Leigh Grace, a career prosecutor who Habba had named as her first assistant U.S. attorney as her replacement...

President Donald Trump’s administration needs to provide additional explanations for statements that Attorney General Pam Bondi and United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba made about evidence associated with Jeffrey Epstein.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a lawsuit against the US Attorney for New Jersey on Tuesday over his arrest last month while protesting outside an ICE detention facility in his city. Baraka accused interim head attorney Alina Habba, who is also a personal lawyer of President Trump, of “malicious prosecution” and violating his Fourth Amendment rights following the May 9 arrest. “Defandant Habba issued the defamatory statement and authorized the false arrest of Mayor Baraka despite clear evidence that Mayor Baraka had not committed the petty offense of ‘defiant trespass,’” the lawsuit stated.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) announced that she has rebuffed an offer of a "plea deal" from Interim US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba. "It says right in the Constitution that members of Congress are immune from arrest," she boasted. "It also says members of Congress shall not be questioned in any other place. Court is where Ms. Habba wants me to go to answer her questions. Well, I'm not going and she can't make me." Habba said "for one thing, we have video of Rep. McIver body-slamming an ICE agent. For another, I think she is misinterpreting what the...

US Attorney Alina Habba announced federal charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver for assaulting ICE agents. “Today my office has charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement,” Alina Habba said on Monday evening. ... ICE bodycam footage showed Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver verbally abusing and physically assaulting federal agents at a detention facility in Newark. Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver (woman in the red jacket) physically attacked ICE agents at Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday. Democrat members of Congress and Newark Mayor...

This week, Newark Mayor and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka (D) entered the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center and asserted "this facility cannot be legally operated in Newark. Newark is a sanctuary city that welcomes immigrants. The planned living conditions at Delaney Hall do not fulfill the standards we require for these new Americans. ICE wants to lock them up in cages. We insist upon hotel accommodations." Acting US Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba pointed out that "so-called 'sanctuary cities' contradict federal law. They may have been tolerated under the lawless...

A teenage Bloods gang member, a sex offender and an alleged cop assaulter hiding under a bed were nabbed Wednesday in a multi-agency raid in Newark — led by the US Marshals with newly minted Interim New Jersey US Attorney Alina Habba in tow. The Post witnessed the arrest of Zakiyy Houser, 18, a gangbanger with a history of weapons charges wanted for aggravated assault after an incident in which he allegedly shot two people in Newark last month. Houser’s lengthy rap sheet includes a string of juvenile offenses across Essex County, New Jersey, among them conspiracy, possession of burglary...

Alina Habba – Donald Trump's firecracker lawyer who now works as special counselor to our great president – has finally found Joe Biden's fake Oval Office room he used to virtue-signal his tuchus off for four miserable years. Like bigfoot, we all knew it existed. We just hadn't found it … until now. While Trump and Elon were shopping for Teslas yesterday, Alina put on her detective hat and started searching for clues. Alas, by nightfall, our girl found it. It's real. It exists. And, it's so lame. Sure, the Dems might think they have the upper hand right now...

Donald Trump has lashed out at a Fox News host after she disputed a claim by Alina Habba, the former president's lawyer, that President Joe Biden was behind the hush-money case. In a post on Truth Social, Trump accused Fox News' Shannon Bream of being "naive" after she spoke with Habba Wednesday. In the interview, Habba—who is not representing Trump in the hush-money case—called the trial a "Biden show." Bream responded that the indictment against Trump, which was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, was not a federal case.