By KATELYN CARALLE, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER AT THE WHITE HOUSE
MAGA darling Alina Habba is settling into the White House in her new job as one of Donald Trump’s right-hand aides.
She’s putting her work as Trump’s lead attorney on many of his ‘witch hunt’ trials over the last few years behind her and focusing on new and bigger projects.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com at the White House, Habba detailed how she plans to work with Trump to ‘save America.’
She also discussed her role behind-the-scenes at the White House in her first wide-ranging print interview since Trump took office.
Once a personal attorney to Trump, Habba, 40, now spends her days working just steps away from the Oval Office and has the ear of the president.
She communicates frequently with Trump and is a spokesperson and top adviser for the president, making frequent appearances on Fox News.
Her first priority as counselor to the president is advising Trump on ‘fixing’ and reversing what they believe Joe Biden flubbed over the last four years.
‘Right now, our primary focus is on fixing what the last administration messed up, which was much of our country – the economy, safety, security, the opioid crisis, children’s education, all of those things,’ Habba revealed to DailyMail.com.
‘And I think you’re seeing that with what’s happened in the executive orders that the president’s put out,’ she said while speaking on the White House North Lawn.
Trump signed hundreds of executive orders in his first days back behind the Resolute Desk.
Counselor to the President Alina Habba is taking her new role in the White House very seriously, and says she sees the current priority as helping Donald Trump ‘save America’ and reverse what Joe Biden ‘messed up’
Habba spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com at the White House on Wednesday, January 29
Now, Trump’s administration, Cabinet and agencies are tasked with enacting what he laid out in his flurry of January orders.
It was long rumored that Trump was considering Habba for a top White House role. She landed in the position last held by Kellyanne Conway in Trump’s first go around.
Habba says her role is still developing, but that she covers a wide area of issues and will likely speak with all teams that work with the White House at one point or another.
‘Counselor to the president is a great job because you’re an advisor, but you’re also in a position where you can dive into pretty much anything you want to really get your feet wet in,’ Habba detailed.
When asked about how her new role is shaping up, Habba said: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if I work with everybody at some point.’
‘This is very much an open door situation here,’ she detailed of the culture in the White House.
‘People that are walking through and working together, it’s been incredibly collaborative. There has been absolutely no drama, and it has been tremendously productive, I think.’
‘President Trump knew what he was doing [and White House Chief of Staff] Susie Wiles, in particular, knew what she was doing when she selected the people that were coming into the West Wing, the people that were going to be around the president and the people that were going to support his agenda,’ she concluded.
Habba, 40, discussed her role behind-the-scenes at the White House in her first wide-ranging print interview since Trump took office and detailed how the Trump administration’s ‘primary focus is on fixing what the last administration messed up’
‘Counselor to the President is a great job because you’re an advisor, but you’re also in a position where you can dive into pretty much anything you want to really get your feet wet in,’ Habba detailed to DailyMail.com
Once a personal attorney to Trump, Habba became known as an attack dog in the media for her client – and now works just steps away from the Oval Office
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who ran the successful 2024 campaign, has helped ‘mentor’ Habba through her transition from attorney to campaign adviser and now Counselor to the President.
While Habba says she represents the American Dream as a first-generation American now working at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., she also credits Trump and Wiles with ‘making the brand that I am.’
‘I owe this to the President and to his chief of staff,’ she said of her new position.
‘I’m really proud to be part of the administration. I’m looking forward to doing a lot of good work here for the taxpayers,’ Habba added.
And while her two kids and step-son remain back with family in New Jersey, Habba says while she’s in D.C. her ‘focus is to help save America.’
Habba first met Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course after she joined in 2019.
Soon after becoming acquainted, Habba joined the legal team as legal cases continued being filed against him.
Habba was deeply entrenched in several of Trump’s legal cases over the last few years and was a mouthpiece for him outside the courthouse in New York City on more than one occasion.
After she became known as an attack dog for Trump, who at the time was running for a second term, she joined his 2024 campaign.
Habba even had a coveted speaking slot at the Republican National Convention (RNC) over the summer to debut her new role.
Habba was once Trump’s attorney on high profile ‘witch hunt’ law suits and now works in the White House just steps away from the President’s seat in the Oval Office
Habba has been by the president’s side through a flurry of lawsuits, and said change needs to happen at DOJ so Americans trust the department again after their ‘witch hunt’ against Trump
But it’s still up-in-the-air how her role will develop over the next few years.
‘What do you see as No. 1 – this is Alina Habba’s role?’ DailyMail.com asked the Counselor to the President.
‘I haven’t decided that yet,’ she divulged. ‘I’ll say that I’m in everything right now, helping in ways that I can.’
‘I’m being used when asked,’ she clarified. ‘And my opinion is obviously an important one.’
Habba says one of the biggest priorities is making sure that the Justice Department can regain the trust of Americans with Pam Bondi at the helm.
Bondi is Trump’s pick for Attorney General. Her nomination was voted out of committee on Wednesday.
‘Some of the changes we’re making, obviously at the DOJ and areas like that, are top of mind and important. Because I was a part of that witch hunt, and it really, truly was a witch hunt,’ she said of the cases against Trump, which he and his allies insist were just targeted political attacks.
