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Salon
Politics
Areeba Shah

Trump lawyer "totally outmaneuvered"

Former President Donald Trump's legal team is trying — again — to nix the testimony of a woman who accused him of forcibly kissing her in his upcoming rape and defamation trial.

Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing E. Jean Carroll's civil lawsuit against Trump, recently denied the former president's request to block the testimony after Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina asked him to revisit whether Trump's alleged forced kissing of Natasha Stoynoff after pushing her against a wall is enough to warrant her testimony.

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