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After being ordered to pay $5 million in E. Jean Carroll’s first civil defamation trial against him, Donald Trump is facing the possibility of having to pay the former Elle columnist even more damages in a second defamation case. One of the bizarre defenses that Trump’s legal team is using is that Carroll has benefitted from the former president’s verbal attacks against her. Carroll alleges that Trump tried to rape her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in 1996, and Trump has responded by repeatedly insulting her — resulting in two separate defamation lawsuits. The Daily Beas…

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