The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's defamation trial gave another warning to the former president's lawyer, Alina Habba, as she began closing arguments in the case Friday. The rebuke came just hours after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened Trump's counsel with jail time, according to The Messenger.
Kaplan previously prohibited Trump and his legal team from denying that the former president raped or defamed former columnist E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in damages in by a jury in a separate case pertaining to those matters. Habba, however, started her closing arguments violating that rule by defending Trump's years of denials.
