Alina Habba says The View hosts 'need help' and prayer for claiming they can't wait to see 'chains' on Trump Tower and slams Letitia James for wanting a 'fire sale' of his properties with five days until deadline to pay $454 million

Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba tore into the hosts of ABC's 'The View Wednesday, saying they needed divine intervention after they delighted in the prospect of 'chains' barring the door to Trump Tower in Manhattan. 

'They are poster children for Trump derangement syndrome and they should seek help,' Habba said during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.

Habba decried the 'hatred' from the hosts of the daytime news commentary program against the former president, calling their response 'pathetic.'

'I hope they go to church and pray on that or whoever they pray to because I don't hold hatred like that toward anybody frankly,' she said. 'And I think that people say disgusting things like that on national television, and not care about the people that work there, not a care about the jobs they create a really sad state of affairs.'

Hosts of ABC's 'The View' expressed delight at the idea of chains on the doors of Trump Tower 

'The View' hosts reacted Wednesday morning to the news after Trump's lawyers said in a filing that the former president was unable to find an underwriter for a $454 million bond to pay the fine from his civil fraud case.

'I don't know if I'm laughing or crying,' host Woopi Goldberg said, after introducing the news during the show to the delight of her co-hosts.

'I can't wait to see the chains on Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. I'm kind of excited about it,' co-host Sunny Hostin said.

'I guess he didn't make enough money in the golden sneaker thing or the Trump University or the Trump steaks,' co-host Joy Behar said.

Trump supporters rally outside of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue

Trump continues to describe the case as 'election interference' and a 'witch hunt'

Habba did not detail the strategy for the former president to raise funds to help pay the bond, but said the idea that he should start selling his real estate assets was 'completely ridiculous.'

She said it was all part of the effort by Trump's political enemies to destroy the former president with the legal verdict from the beginning. 

'I think everything is done intentionally. I do not doubt that the witch hunt that the election interference goal is what was ringing steady and loudly and true throughout these trials, frankly,' she said. 

Habba said Trump and his family 'made the skyline of New York changed forever' with their prominent buildings and said it would not be right to hold a 'fire sale' of Trump's key real estate assets like Trump Tower in New York City.

'We are seeing it, it is the demise of our country, not the demise of Trump, so we'll handle it as we always have and keep our heads up and keep working hard,' she said. 

Trump reacted angrily to the news, criticizing the New York officials for trying to ruin him for political reasons. 

'The Corrupt Political Hacks in New York, Judge and AG, are asking me to put up massive amounts of money before I am allowed to appeal the ridiculous decision,' he wrote on Truth Social. 'Never done before. No jury, no victim, full disclaimer clause, happy banks. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! WITCH HUNT!' 

It came on a day James dissed Trump's claim that he can't find any company willing to help him post bond on his $454 million fraud judgement, ridiculing his effort to slash the amount saying the attester he relied on lacks credibility.

Dennis Fan, a lawyer in James' office, took on Trump's contentions in a new filing, just days before a deadline where the AG has said she could seize Trump assets if he doesn't pay the judgement.  

'Defendants’ new factual allegations and legal arguments fail to support their extraordinary request for a stay based on a bond or deposit of less than one-fourth of the money-judgment amount,' wrote Fan, a senior assistant solicitor general.

He was responding to the request by Trump's lawyers that he post a $100 million bond rather than the judge-ordered $454 million, which is increasing each day with interest.

He also took on the two men cited as validators in Trump's latest filing, longtime Trump Organization general counsel Alan Garten and Trump insurance broker Gary Giulietti. 

Fan also pushed back on the claim by Trump lawyers that firms wouldn't accept real estate holdings as collateral.

'Defendants’ allegations thus boil down to the proposition that sureties have been unwilling to accept Mr. Trump’s real-estate holdings as collateral in this case,' he wrote.

'Yet defendants supply no documentary evidence that demonstrates precisely what real property they offered to sureties, on what terms that property was offered, or precisely why the sureties were unwilling to accept the assets.

Trump defended his financial status Tuesday, telling reporters he was able to pay the bond.

'We have a lot of cash and we have a great company, but they want to take it away or at least take the cash element away. Billions of dollars in value, billions of dollars in properties,' he said. 'But they’d like to take the cash away so I can’t use it on the campaign.'