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Former President Donald Trump demonstrated the importance of the gag orders in some of his other civil and criminal cases during the E. Jean Carroll trial, argued attorney and legal expert Katie Phang on MSNBC’s “The Beat” Friday. Ultimately, a jury found Trump liable for $83.3 million in damages in the high-profile defamation trial, which centered on Trump claiming that Carroll fabricated a rape allegation against him to advance her writing career. “We are supposed to have free speech in America; precisely because we have free speech, sometimes the courts determine it is expensive,” said anch…

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