Who is Jenny Hannigan? Woman arrested at Trump trial

The woman who was arrested after she tried to reach Donald Trump in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday was identified as a secretary for a Queens judge who is no stranger to legal turmoil.

Jenny Hannigan — who claimed she wanted to help former President Donald Trump during his ongoing civil fraud trial in lower Manhattan — was previously arrested in 2015 after going into a rage at a Brooklyn gas station, according to police sources. 

Hannigan allegedly damaged a credit card machine and was charged with resisting arrest, police sources told The Post.

Two years earlier, Hannigan filed a federal lawsuit against Nassau County cops claiming she was sexually assaulted in the back of a police car during a DUI arrest in 2011. 

Once Hannigan was placed in the back of the car, Officer Gary Zima allegedly “plac[ed] his hands and fingers inside of and around [her] vagina and vaginal area,” The Post previously reported.

His female partner was accused of looking the other way during the alleged assault.

The assault allegation was “undetermined” following an internal investigation, but Zima was accused of violating policy after shooting a text to Hannigan three days after the arrest when he asked her “how she was doing,” CBS New York reported at the time.  

Court records show that Hannigan settled with Nassau County and police for an undisclosed sum in February 2016.

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Inside the Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, the unhinged 37-year-old secretary disrupted proceedings just before noon “by standing up and walking towards the front of the courtroom yelling out to Mr. Trump,” Office of Court Administration spokesman Lucian Chalfen said. 

Hannigan, of Baldwin, NY, was stopped by court officers before she could get near the former president, who was seated with his attorneys at the defense table, Chalfen said in a statement. 

A Post scribe inside the courtroom did not hear Hannigan yell, but she later was caught talking loudly in the hallway after court officers escorted her out.  

“Help me! Save me!” she yelled for several minutes as officers cuffed her, according to a courthouse source.

The secretary — who posted a CNN article titled “Trump’s turbulent and lawless presidency will end with historic second impeachment” on Facebook in 2021  — was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. 

Hannigan was also barred from state court buildings. 

She was charged with one count of second-degree contempt of court for disrupting the trial and was given a desk appearance ticket. 

Hannigan wasn’t home when The Post knocked at her Queens address, but neighbor Ken Larson was shocked to learn of her bizarre arrest.

“She’s a lovely woman,” he told The Post, adding she lives in the building with her elderly mother.

“She’s actually a very lovely person,” he added.

Additional reporting by Tina Moore, Haley Brown, and Ben Kochman