Legal professionals have spoken out with corrections following claims made by Donald Trump's attorney on Saturday.

Alina Habba, a New Jersey attorney currently working on behalf of the former president, appeared on the conservative new station, Newsmax TV, on Saturday. During her time, she discussed the particular statute cited in the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, claiming that it is a seldom-used law employed only for political ends by the Biden administration.

"In a hundred years, they have never used this statute," Habba claimed. "It's antiquated, it's old, it doesn't exist for any purpose other than true espionage. But leave it to the Biden administration to put it into place against President Trump because he's leading in the polls."

The statute that Habba referred to is 18 U.S. Code 793, which is located under the "Espionage and Censorship" section of U.S. law. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the section "applies to activities such as gathering, transmitting to an unauthorized person, or losing, information pertaining to the national defense, and to conspiracies to commit such offenses."

Habba's comment began to circulate online after the segment aired and drew pushback from numerous legal professionals, who counter-claimed that her take on the statute was false. Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor and current columnist for Politico, said that Habba should know better.

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