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Former President Donald Trump has already forced his attorneys to defend him in the least effective way possible in the Manhattan hush money case, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman argued on MSNBC Monday. This comes as the trial is set to resume this week, after several days in which Trump did not appear to be faring well. “It does seem that [Trump attorney] Todd Blanche was kind of hamstrung by trying to please Donald Trump,” said anchor Joy Reid. “I mean, all of the sort of weirdness of calling him ‘President Trump’ when he’s not the president, and just insisting on using that terminolo…