The counterpunch strategy deployed by Trump’s legal team against E. Jean Carroll “backfired” bigly. Alina Habba’s jousting with the judge and with Trump’s civil defamation trial’s first witness, the plaintiff 80-year-old Carroll herself, teed up a chance for Carroll to score some dignity points against the former president. “The attorney toward the end of the trial day gave E. Jean Carroll a tremendous gift, and the courtroom was fairly still for that portion of the testimony,” legal expert and MSNBC commentator Lisa Rubin said. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? ALSO READ: Behol…