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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

Trump proxy Alina Habba slams DOGE-fired veterans as ‘not fit to have a job at this moment’

Top Trump lawyer Alina Habba has insultingly suggested that some U.S. military veterans who were fired from government jobs as part of ongoing massive federal workforce cuts “were not fit to have a job at this moment.”

Habba, who defended Trump in his high-profile sexual abuse case against writer E. Jean Carroll and now works as a counselor to the president, said that the Trump administration cares “tremendously” about veterans but had a “fiscal responsibility” to “pay people that actually work.”

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