Habba's closing 'did the seemingly impossible' and made Trump's 'position worse': expert

Donald Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba somehow managed to worsen his legal position heading into the end of his defamation trial, according to a legal expert.

The former president has already been found liable for sexually abusing and then defaming author E. Jean Carroll, and a second jury is hearing evidence to determine how much to penalize him for defamatory statements he made as president, but legal expert Tristan Snell said Trump had set himself up for a staggering punishment, reported Newsweek.

"Donald Trump and Alina Habba did the seemingly impossible today — they made Trump's position in the E. Jean Carroll case EVEN WORSE," Snell posted on X. "For Trump to continue denying the rape, when the judge told him he couldn't, shows he TOTALLY lacks contrition... The jury is going to DESTROY him."

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U.S. District judge Lewis Kaplan ruled at the start of the trial that the findings from the first trial, which covered defamatory statements Trump made after leaving office, were not in dispute, and he has repeatedly admonished the former president and Habba for denying Carroll's claims as false.

Snell previously served as assistant attorney general for New York, where he led the fraud investigation and prosecution of Trump University.