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The trial for writer E. Jean Carroll’s second civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump is now underway, and the trial’s outcome will determine how much more money he will owe her. Carroll’s previous defamation lawsuit against Trump ended with a jury awarding the former Elle columnist $5 million — a judgement that Trump’s legal team has been appealing. MSNBC’s Katie Phang offers legal analysis of the second trial in an opinion column published on January 18 — and argues that Trump lawyer Alina Habba’s courtroom antics and “heated exchanges” with Judge Lewis Kaplan aren’t doing her cl…

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