George Conway: Trump's latest meltdown will come back to bite him at E. Jean Carroll trial

Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, conservative attorney George Conway predicted that Donald Trump's antics in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom on Thursday will haunt him if he shows up at the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial set to start next week.

Speaking on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Conway said that Trump's meltdown during closing arguments when Engoron gave him a window to speak did not go unnoticed by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan who will likely keep the former president on a short leash if he shows up.

'There were two separate cases, one was the case that was tried, the defamation he engaged in against E. Jean Carroll after he was president," he began. "This is the one, this is the first case they would've brought that got held up because he claimed that the federal law prevented the lawsuit and then he later claimed that he was immune to it because he was president."

"And the first trial, where he had the opportunity to testify but did not, was where E. Jean Carroll presented her story and the story of the women who she told, just like within a day or two after the rape, and then the jury found, and Trump refused to show up to rebut that she was raped that day."

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"And so, he is precluded —there is a doctrine called collateral estoppel: if you lose an issue once to a party, you can't relitigate it," he explained. "So basically, E. Jean Carroll's lawyers are saying, they made a motion to exclude all sorts of things that he wants or that he might try to do to relitigate it. Also to make sure that Trump does not pull the kind of crap that he pulled the other day in court across the street."

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