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Trump lawyer tries to discredit E Jean Carroll in bizarre exchange during trial

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As Alina Habba, Trump’s counsel, hammered on about the writer’s commentary on social media, questioning took an absurd turn

Trump lawyer tries to discredit E Jean Carroll in bizarre exchange during trial

E Jean Carroll’s New York defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday with the ex-president’s lawyer trying to discredit her on cross-examination with a bizarre dialectic about genitals and by intimating that she has loose morals.

“Did you ever post any tweets that could be considered sexually explicit?” Alina Habba, Trump’s lead attorney, asked.

Carroll’s team objected. Kaplan sustained the objection.

As Habba hammered on about the sexual commentary on Carroll’s social media accounts (the former Elle columnist has written about sex and relationships for years), questioning took a turn for the absurd.

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