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- Joe Tacopina is defending Donald Trump at trial against E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation claims.
- Tacopina won his last big rape case by telling jurors the accuser was mentally troubled and out for money.
- Twelve years later, he is using a similar attack-dog strategy against Carroll in an ongoing Manhattan civil trial.
When confronting rape accusers in court, Joe Tacopina — Donald Trump's pugilist lawyer in the ongoing E. Jean Carroll trial — does not wear kid gloves.
Boxing gloves are more like it.