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Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, earned an objection from E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers with the first line of her opening statement and it’s already causing mockery. Those outside the courtroom could monitor the goings-on, thanks to live postings from Politico’s Erica Orden and Matthew Russell Lee of the Inner City Press. “President Trump defended himself when publicly accused—” the Trump lawyer told the jury in her opening line before being cut off. As the judge explained to the lawyers and the jury, they weren’t there to retry the case and explain why Trump did what he did. The case before t…

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