Alina Habba, President Trump’s personal lawyer, was sworn in Friday as the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
During the swearing-in ceremony, Mr. Trump said she will “work tirelessly to weed out crime and corruption and restore law and order to the Garden State.”
He called New Jersey “a great place. I think it’s highly underrated.”
Ms. Habba, who was born and raised in New Jersey, rose to national attention in 2021 when she became a legal spokesperson for Mr. Trump and senior adviser for MAGA Inc., his super PAC.
She represented Mr. Trump in his New York civil cases, including his business fraud case where he was ordered to pay hundreds of millions for inflating his net worth and the defamation and sexual assault cases against him brought by author E. Jean Carroll.
She also joined the White House for his second administration as counselor to the president.
Attorney General Pam Bondi swore Ms. Habba in.
“I would not be standing here today if it was not for the man to my right,” she said about Mr. Trump.
She said she has been with the president through some “very dark days when I lost faith in our justice system when I saw things that I never, ever thought I would ever see.”
She added, “This man kept fighting for America, and I’m just so honored that now I get to fight for the state of New Jersey. I will do a good job. I will clean it up. We’re going to make New Jersey great again.”
