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Trump lawyer Alina Habba's 'perversion of precedent' in latest filing shocks legal expert

Trump lawyer Alina Habba's 'perversion of precedent' in latest filing shocks legal expert

Alina Habba’s latest argument, that E. Jean Carroll failed in her duty to mitigate the damages of then-President Donald Trump’s defamatory statements, shocked one legal expert who called it a “perversion of precedent.”

Lisa Rubin appeared on MSNBC Friday evening to discuss a new filing from Habba in Manhattan's federal court.

In her letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, Habba argues Carroll erred by speaking publicly about Trump’s denial of her claim — upheld in a civil court last year — that he sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. ...