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This
week
Alina
Habba
went
on
The
View
to
tell
those
godless
liberals
what’s
up.
She
was
asked
about
the
shooting
at
the
White
House
Correspondents’
Dinner.
(“Still
rattled.”)
She
was
asked
about
healthcare.
(“Concepts
of
a
plan.”)
The
$1
million
sanctions
order
she
got
from
Judge
Donald
Middlebrooks
for
filing
a
frivolous
RICO
suit
against
Hillary
Clinton,
James
Comey,
and
half
the
Democrats
in
DC.
(“A
Hillary
Clinton-appointed
judge
sanctioned
me
for
suing
Hillary
Clinton.”)
But
no
one
was
interested
in
Habba’s
take
on
drug
prices.
(“Going
down.”)
Less
than
24
hours
after
the
Justice
Department
indicted
Comey
for
posting
seashells
on
Insta,
Habba
was
invited
on
to
be
the
heel.
Her
job
was
to
indignantly
insist
that
Comey
had
been
threatening
to
assassinate
Trump,
and
then
absorb
the
audience’s
inevitable
scorn
…
which
she
did.
Habba
gamely
rolled
her
eyes
and
sneered
and
played
her
part
to
perfection,
claiming
that
the
former
FBI
director
had
threatened
to
murder
the
president.
No
weaponization
here!
But
Habba
did
more
than
just
defend
the
indictment.
She
also
claimed
that
law
enforcement
routinely
charges
defendants
under
18
USC
§
875
for
using
the
number
“86.”
“A
gentleman
posted
that
about
me.
He
posted
on
Twitter
86
Habba
and
he
was
also
charged,”
she
huffed.
“He
was
charged
in
Florida.
He
was
held
accountable
because
you
cannot
do
it.”
Was
he
now?
On
June
25,
2025,
an
Orlando
man
named
Salvatore
Russotto
was
charged
under
§
875
for
making
true
threats
to
Habba.
He
did
indeed
tweet
“86
HABBA”
multiple
times.
As
part
of
an
extended
social
media
bender
the
prior
month,
Russotto
called
to
“86”
Chuck
Schumer,
Rep.
Hakeem
Jeffries,
Joe
Biden,
Jim
Comey,
Justice
Ketanji
Brown
Jackson,
Canada,
“all
demonRATS,”
and
Black
people.
Only
he
didn’t
say
“Black
people.”
Russotto
was
not
charged
with
threatening
Canada
or
Biden
or
Comey,
whom
he
said
“needs
to
die
a
slow
and
painful
death”
and
“must
be
eliminated.”
He
was
only
charged
with
threatening
Habba,
the
president’s
former
personal
lawyer
who
was
then
LARP-ing
as
US
Attorney
for
New
Jersey.
This
is
not
terrific
evidence
of
even-handed
administration
of
justice.
On
the
other
hand,
Russotto
did
tweet
at
Habba
nine
times
in
an
hour
on
May
20.
In
addition
to
calling
to
“86”
her,
he
repeatedly
wished
for
her
“slow
and
painful
death”
and
demanded
that
she
get
the
death
penalty.
Arguably,
Russotto’s
tweets
are
protected
First
Amendment
speech
under
Watts
v.
US
and
Counterman
v.
Colorado.
We’ll
never
find
out,
though,
since
he
took
a
plea,
agreeing
to
spend
a
year
on
probation
and
get
mental
health
treatment.
In
any
event,
this
is
clearly
closer
to
a
“true
threat,”
than
tweeting
a
picture
of
seashells
at
no
one
in
particular.
And
a
cursory
examination
of
the
exhibits
in
Russotto’s
prosecution
actually
highlights
how
unevenly
Trump’s
DOJ
treats
these
supposed
threats.
Sadly,
Habba
is
unlikely
to
make
an
encore
appearance
to
correct
the
record
with
the
ladies
of
The
View.
Host
Sunny
Hostin,
a
former
federal
prosecutor,
mercilessly
skewered
Habba,
reminding
her
that
the
11th
Circuit
was
no
more
impressed
with
that
RICO
trollsuit
than
that
“Hillary
Clinton
appointee.”
Time
to
run
back
to
the
Fox
greenroom!
But
perhaps
those
“86
Comey”
tweets
will
come
up
in
a
motion
to
dismiss
for
selective
and
vindictive
prosecution
in
the
Eastern
District
of
North
Carolina.
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