They didn't let her finish.
CNN's Jake Tapper cut away from a live shot featuring former President Donald Trump's co-counsel Alina Habba lambasting the second E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict that the jury set at $83.3 million.
The hit to the former president's pocket book came nine months after a separate jury sided with Carroll awarding her $5 million in the first defamation trial where the woman, now 80, claimed Trump slandered her several times calling her a liar and not his type.
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Habba stepped to the phalanx of press outside of the 500 Pearl Street federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan to level a scathing salvo against U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan due to what she believes was a miscarriage of justice.
Asked if she regretted taking on the case, one that shortly before had witnessed acclaimed attorney Joseph Tacopina withdraw, Habba said she was proud, but that the system was working against Trump.
"I have sat on trial after trial for months in this state, the state of New York. Letitia James and now this," she said. "Weeks weeks. Why? Because President Trump is leading in the polls. And now we see what you get in New York. So don't get it twisted I am so proud to stand with Pres. Trump. But I'm not proud to stand with what I saw in the courtroom."
She singled out the judge for his conduct even before the trial began.
"Before I walked into court that judge decided that every single defense Trump had — we were not allowed to raise before the jury," she said. "There was no proof and I couldn't prove that she didn't bring in the dress, there was no DNA. There was no experts."
"My experts were denied; two of them, two them were denied to come in."
She continued to praise Trump, assailing the trials as political retribution.
"Ladies and gentlemen you are not allowed to be stripped of every defense that you have—"
And that is when Tapper chimed in and Habba's volume dwindled.
"Alright, so you're getting an idea now about why Trump's attorney is perceived as effective as she is — which is not particularly effective," he said.
