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Trump’s Carroll fight keeps dragging him back into the same ugly facts

The E. Jean Carroll litigation remained a major legal and political problem for Donald Trump on February 27, 2023, as his side kept trying to block evidence that pointed straight back to his own words and conduct. The case was less about a single headline that day than about the cumulative damage of a defense strategy that kept inviting judges and jurors to revisit the former president’s past behavior.

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Trump’s Carroll fight keeps dragging him back into the same ugly facts

The E. Jean Carroll litigation remained a major legal and political problem for Donald Trump on February 27, 2023, as his side kept trying to block evidence that pointed straight back to his own words and conduct. The case was less about a single headline that day than about the cumulative damage of a defense strategy that kept inviting judges and jurors to revisit the former president’s past behavior.

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Trump’s Carroll fight keeps dragging him back into the same ugly facts

The E. Jean Carroll litigation remained a major legal and political problem for Donald Trump on February 27, 2023, as his side kept trying to block evidence that pointed straight back to his own words and conduct. The case was less about a single headline that day than about the cumulative damage of a defense strategy that kept inviting judges and jurors to revisit the former president’s past behavior.

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