Trump attorney Alina Habba repeatedly drew the ire of Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday during her second day of cross-examining E. Jean Carroll.
As reported by Matthew Russell Lee at Inner City Press, Habba grilled Carroll about past sexually explicit tweets that she had written despite the fact that such tweets had no bearing on whether former President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, as a jury last year found him liable for doing.
This led to repeated objections from Carroll's attorney, all of which were sustained by Kaplan.
After this, Habba began to switch tactics and seemed to ask Carroll questions intended to show that she had benefited financially and personally from being the target of Trump's defamatory claims.
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"Did the verdict in the case last year provide you with greater status in New York?" Habba asked her.
"A feeling of triumph," Carroll replied.
"You did media?" Habba continued.
"We had five TV appearances," said Carroll. "I posted twice on my Substack about it. And on Twitter, and Instagram."
"And you've been on left-leaning platforms?" Habba asked.
This spurred Carroll's counsel to object, which Kaplan once against sustained.
However, Habba was not to be deterred.
"They are left-leaning?" Habba asked again.
"Did you not hear me?" scolded Kaplan after Habba blew past his ruling sustaining the objection.