Donald Trump's Lawyer Alina Habba defiant outside New York court

Donald Trump’s Lawyer Alina Habba has delivered a scathing assessment of her client’s time in a New York court. The former US president was ordered by the jury to pay E. Jean Carroll $US83 million in damages at the conclusion of a defamation trial. “Don’t get it twisted, we are seeing a violation of our justice system,” Ms Habba told media in New York. “Imagine a point where a judge tells a lawyer, ‘before your client’ – the former president of the United States, the leading candidate and obvious nominee for the Republican Party – ‘before he takes the stand to defend himself, Miss Habba, tell me the questions you are going to ask in open court and tell me exactly what he is going to respond’. “And then edited my questions, edited the response he was allowed to give, and guess what my client did – he took the stand, he abided by the rules of this corrupt system. “We will immediately appeal – we will set aside that ridiculous jury.” Ms Habba gave her final words to the media, “the former president does not live his life in fear”, as she was escorted into her car.