In a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan on Sunday, attorney Alina Habba accused the legal team representing defamation victim E. Jean Carroll of trying to put up roadblocks for Donald Trump’s defense in the trial scheduled to begin on Tuesday. In the letter, posted to X by MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, Habba contended that the move by Carroll’s attorneys to keep the former president from lashing out in court as he did during closing arguments in his $370 million financial fraud trial last Thursday is hindering the former president’s defense. In her first paragraph, Habba wrote, “This letter [from …