One day after winning the Republican Iowa Caucus, former President Donald Trump appeared in court Tuesday for day one of his civil defamation trial, where a jury will be asked to determine how much Trump must pay veteran journalist E. Jean Carroll in damages. “Surprised” by the former president’ court appearance, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes spoke with legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who was in the New York courtroom with Trump, about whether or not she had a sense of why he chose to show up. “So I think there are two reasons that he went,” Rubin said. “One is a convergence of a legal and political strategy …
