The FBI showed up at Alina Habba's home in New Jersey. Not because she'd committed a crime. Because she'd committed the sin of representing Donald Trump in court.
That's the kind of operation Jack Smith was running.
Habba, President Trump's former attorney, dropped the revelation during an appearance on The Benny Show, telling host Benny Johnson what the public never heard during the Mar-a-Lago documents saga. "Jack Smith sent the FBI to my house," Habba said.
"The FBI came knocking on my door in New Jersey," Habba continued. "I mean, people don't know that." She was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury — as a lawyer. Not as a suspect, not as a co-conspirator, but as someone whose crime was providing legal counsel to the wrong client. "But yeah, I was subpoenaed as a lawyer. It's crazy."
Habba wasn't the only Trump attorney targeted. Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb were also dragged into the investigative machinery that Smith built around the Mar-a-Lago case. The strategy was straightforward: if you can't break the client, squeeze the lawyers. Make representation itself a liability. Turn attorney-client privilege into a speed bump instead of a wall.
The scope of Smith's operation went far beyond one former president's legal team. Records released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson in July revealed that more than 400 Republican individuals and organizations were targeted during the Biden-era investigations. That list included 44 current and former members of Congress.
Four hundred targets. Forty-four sitting or former legislators. Not a focused criminal investigation — a political census with subpoena power.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has been pulling the threads on Smith's operation for months. Smith himself sat for a deposition in December 2025, though the results of that questioning have produced more questions than answers. The full picture of how the special counsel's office selected its targets, justified its methods, and allocated taxpayer resources remains incomplete.
Habba seems to have made peace with it. "But now I'm so far gone, and we've won," she told Johnson. "That's literally how desperate this person was." The word "desperate" does a lot of work in that sentence. Smith had the full weight of the federal government — FBI agents, grand juries, unlimited budget authority — and his play was knocking on a defense lawyer's door to get her to turn on her client.
The Mar-a-Lago case is dead. Smith resigned. Trump won the presidency. The legal siege failed on every front that mattered. But the infrastructure Smith built — the precedent of treating opposition lawyers as investigative targets, the normalization of using federal agents to pressure legal counsel — that doesn't disappear with one election result.
Makes you wonder what else she hasn't mentioned yet.