Alina Habba's office ransacked by man who tried to enter with bat, sources say

Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba's bureau was violently vandalized Wednesday evening by a idiosyncratic who earlier successful the time had been denied introduction to the gathering due to the fact that helium had a shot bat, 2 instrumentality enforcement sources said.

The person, who has not yet been identified, returned to the gathering without the bat and was allowed to enter. 

In Habba's waiting room, helium requested and was denied a gathering with the acting U.S. attorney, the sources said. He past began smashing things successful the waiting country earlier fleeing the scene.

The idiosyncratic has not been apprehended.

Habba addressed the incidental successful a statement connected X Thursday afternoon.

"I volition not beryllium intimidated by extremist lunatics for doing my job," Habba said.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said successful her ain X station Thursday the idiosyncratic "destroyed spot successful her office, and past fled the scene."

"Thankfully, Alina is ok," Bondi wrote. "Any unit oregon threats of unit against immoderate national serviceman volition not beryllium tolerated. Period."

The New York Times was first to report that the idiosyncratic tried to participate Habba's bureau with a bat.

Habba, a erstwhile idiosyncratic lawyer to President Trump, has served arsenic the Justice Department's apical authoritative successful New Jersey since March. The president initially nominated her to beryllium New Jersey's Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney, but aboriginal withdrew her nomination and kept her successful the relation connected an acting basis, a determination that has faced immoderate legal pushback.