'He really yelled at Alina': E. Jean Carroll lawyer describes Trump flipping out at lunch
During E. Jean Carroll's second civil defamation case against Donald Trump, attorney Alina Habba's antics on behalf of the former president were so strident and in-your-face that Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to jail her.
But, according to Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan, Trump once blew up at Habba for being too nice to attorneys who were on the other side.
During an appearance on a podcast hosted by Never Trump conservatives George Conway and Sarah Longwell, CNN reports, the lawyer shared an anecdote in which Trump's legal team "graciously offered to provide" lunch for her legal team during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump, Kaplan recalled, believed that a deposition in a case was "a waste of my time."
The attorney told Conway and Longwell, "And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain. You could really almost see it. And he said, 'Well, you're here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you're going to do for lunch? Where are you going to get lunch?'"
Roberta Kaplan added that when she told him that his attorneys had "graciously offered to provide" lunch for her team, Trump blew up.
The attorney remembered, "At which point, there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile — and he just threw it across the table and stormed out of the room…. He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina."
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Kaplan went on to say, "He came back in, and he said, 'Well, how'd you like the lunch?' And I said, 'Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I'm taking testimony.' And he said, 'Well, I told you,' — it was kind of charming. He said, 'I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can't help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.'"
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Read CNN's full report on the podcast at this link.