Donald Trump's defense lawyer, who resorted to personal attacks and repetitive questioning in his cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll in the trial over her rape allegation against the former president, only bolstered her case, according to legal experts.
Carroll sued Trump for battery and defamation, alleging that he damaged her reputation by calling her a liar and repeatedly denying her accusations that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina, who has previously represented an NYPD cop accused of on-duty rape of a woman, struggled to defend his client while questioning Carroll and only reinforced her testimony, former prosecutors say.
