As of: February 5, 2024, 8:57 a.m
By: Daniel Dillmann
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Roberta Kaplan defended E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump and remembers a vulgar outburst from the former president after the trial.
New York – Donald Trump has already lost the trial against E. Jean Carroll.
The ex-president has to pay more than $83 million to the columnist for defamation.
A sum that apparently also upsets the self-proclaimed multi-billionaire.
At least that's what stories from Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan suggest.
According to Kaplan, Donald Trump initially became angry with his own lawyer, Alina Habba.
The reason for this was that Trump's legal counsel had bought the other side lunch during Trump's questioning at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Kaplan said this in an episode of the podcast “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell).”
The moderator is the namesake George Conway, himself a lawyer and a prominent critic of the former US president.
Conway emphasized that it is a tradition among lawyers to buy the other side lunch during questioning.
Donald Trump at a trial in New York.
In the background is his lawyer Alina Habba.
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Donald Trump shouts at lawyer Alina Habba
But Donald Trump doesn't seem to be a fan of this custom.
He literally shouted at his lawyer, Kaplan reported.
The ex-president described the questioning before the trial as a “pure waste of my time.”
At the end of the appointment, Donald Trump is said to have asked to speak “off the record”, i.e. confidentially.
In the USA, this term is used by accused persons to make statements that do not find their way into court records of interviews or similar.
Believing himself to be safe, the ex-president is said to have said, according to the lawyer: “See you next Tuesday.”
In English, the short version “CU next Tuesday” is a slang expression that stands as an acronym for the letters of the word “Cunt” – which in turn refers to an extremely vulgar name for the female sexual organ.
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Kaplan herself was not aware of this meaning: Trump's words initially confused her.
Only after members of her team made her aware of the insult did she understand Trump's intentions.
“Thank God I didn’t know, because if I had known I would definitely have been angry.
There is no question that I would have been angry,” said Kaplan in the podcast, which was also reported on by US media outlets such as
CBS
and
NBC
.
Neither Trump nor his legal team led by Alina Habba have yet commented on the allegations.
They come at the wrong time for Trump anyway.
The former president is currently in the middle of the campaign for the 2024 US election. Trump is running for the Republican nomination and hopes to run against incumbent Joe Biden again in November this year.
The chances of this happening are good.
All polls for the Republican primaries show Trump ahead of his rival Nikki Haley.
The Trump team is receiving good news from another process.
The lawsuit against Trump for attempted election fraud will be dealt with later than previously expected.
This was announced by the responsible federal judge Tanya Chutkan.
The trial was supposed to begin in early March.
A new start date is not known.
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