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As writer E. Jean Carroll's civil defamation trial against former President Donald Trump continued in the courtroom on Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan warned Trump attorney Alina Habba off her attempted line of questioning about Carroll's firearm ownership, reported Inner City Press' Matthew Russell Lee — one of many questions apparently intended to undermine Carroll's character to the jury.

"You have a gun," said Habba. "Do you have a license?" Carroll replied that she did not.

"Are you aware that you have to have a license—" Habba began....

Among the cases and 91 criminal counts former President Donald Trump is facing — the civil case involving his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll is one that is reportedly worrying him.

Former federal prosecutor Faith Gay appearing on MSNBC explained how federal Judge Lewis Kaplan is no-mess about keeping civility and order.

"He knows that Judge Kaplan runs the courtroom with a pretty tight set of controls," she said. "He knows that Judge Kaplan has no problem in speaking back to him or to his lawyers — not that Judge Kaplan is one-sided or the other — but that he is going to ensure that there is a fair trial, that these jurors are not intimidated, that they get a chance to hear the evidence."...