Trump’s Lawyers Keep Pretending New E. Jean Carroll Trial Is a Redo. It’s Not.

With just two weeks to go before Donald Trump enters Round 2 of his civil rape trial against journalist E. Jean Carroll, the former president’s lawyers are grasping at straws—and getting repeatedly slapped down by an increasingly impatient federal judge.

Their latest ploy is an ill-fated attempt to keep a New York jury from seeing much of Trump’s damning deposition, the same videotape that showed the billionaire being his typically crass self. In it, he repeatedly insults a lawyer with sexist remarks, mistakenly identifies his sexual assault victim as his ex-wife, and even blurts out that stars like him get away with sexual harassment “unfortunately—or fortunately.”

But in trying this last-minute switcheroo, Trump’s attorneys are getting called out for mistakenly thinking the upcoming trial is another shot at rewriting history to clear Trump’s name, as opposed to what it is: a second lashing for running his mouth.

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