'Big scoop': Trump lawyer spins out over 'October surprise' scandal exposed by NYT

Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, is pushing back hard on a New York Times report about her work for the family of a billionaire who was seeking a pardon. She blamed the paper, the “radical left” and the calendar.The Times reported Tuesday that the family of Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera gave Habba a deal worth $50 million while he was trying to win a pardon from the Trump administration. Habba had served as an adviser to the attorney general and briefly led the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey before federal courts ruled she was serving unlawfully.Habba, who now goes by her married name, Alina Mildon, answered on X with a sarcastic “Big Scoop.”“After leaving public service, I’ve gone back to doing what I have done for my entire career: being a lawyer,” she wrote.She said the Times had already credited “another capable attorney for what he successfully...