2020 Election
New Trump video could be bad news as he considers taking stand in defamation case: expert
January 19, 2024 3:30PM ET
Reacting to video clips of Donald Trump's deposition in his $370 million civil fraud trial that were released Friday, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin suggested E. Jean Carroll's lead attorney might have been handed a gift before the former president is expected to return to Judge Lewis Kaplan's courtroom on Monday.
According to a report from NBC News, the deposition was conducted as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James' financial fraud investigation. The release of the video clips came almost a year later.
The report has led to the resurfacing of the previously released 479-page transcript that Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan will now want to review, explained the legal analyst.
"That deposition was incredibly damning for him and so too on this are some admissions that can prove damaging to him," she told host Chris Jansing, before noting his bragging about his wealth in the video may be germane to the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial "awarding punitive damages."
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Trump has already been found liable of sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her. The ongoing trial is mainly to decide damages.
"This jury is allowed to consider how much Donald Trump is worth," she explained, "because if you're trying to punish someone if they only have $10 in their pocket, that's very different than punishing someone who has hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in their pocket.
"So, if I'm Robby Kaplan and her team representing E. Jean Carroll right now, I'm poring over this video and thinking about how to use it if Donald Trump, indeed, takes the stand on Monday."
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