President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had chosen Alina Habba, his attorney, to serve as counselor to the president.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, called Habba a “tireless advocate for justice.”
“She has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her resolve — standing with me through numerous ‘trials,’ battles, and countless days in Court,” Trump said. “Few understand the Weaponization of the ‘Injustice’ System better than Alina.”
Trump announced several other planned additions to his administration, including Christopher Landau as his choice to serve as deputy secretary of state. Landau was the U.S. ambassador to Mexico during Trump’s first term.
Trump also said former National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton will serve as the director of policy planning at the State Department, while Michael Needham will serve as counselor of the State Department.
Earlier Sunday, Trump vowed to make swift and sweeping changes as he takes office on January 20, deporting millions of migrants in the country illegally, imposing tariffs on imported goods that could raise consumer prices for Americans and pardoning rioters who tried to upend his 2020 reelection loss.
Six weeks ahead of taking office for a new four-year tenure in the White House, Trump seemed emboldened by his victory last month, making him only the second American president elected to a second, nonconsecutive term after Grover Cleveland in the 1890s.
“People like me now, you know?” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview conducted Friday in New York and broadcast Sunday.
