Alina Habba’s two-day effort to discredit E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case collapsed Thursday under the weight of a single question from the former journalist’s attorney, an ex-prosecutor said. Habba hoped to prove the damages Carroll contends she suffered occurred before then-President Donald Trump publicly accused her of lying about his sexual abuse in the 1990s, writes Joyce Vance. “Carroll’s lawyer Robbie Kaplan cut out that argument’s legs with one question,” Vance wrote. The question, as per Inner City Press, was this: “Did any of the tweets before Donald Trump’s statement call you a De…