
Trump Lawyer Says ‘Experts Were Denied’ by New York Judge
An attorney for Donald Trump said that claimed that her experts were denied in a New York City jury ruled in favor of a writer who accused the former president of defamation. Alina Habba, the lawyer, told reporters on Jan. 26 that presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan allegedly made sure that “every single defense that President Trump had” was not raised in the case. She said that her team’s “experts were denied” and couldn’t take the stand, too. Her comments came just hours after a jury ruled that President Trump should pay $83.8 million to writer E. Jean Carroll, finding that he defamed her in 2019 when he denied accusations that he assaulted her decades earlier. It was the second time Ms. Carroll was awarded damages from the former president after making those accusations, which he denies to this day....
