'Stay with me': Legal expert compares Trump vs. E. Jean Carroll to Kanye and Taylor Swift

Donald Trump is the Kanye West to E. Jean Carroll's Taylor Swift, one legal expert argued on Thursday.

Trump's damages trial in the writer's defamation case continued on Thursday, with Carroll herself taking the stand to outline what harms she has faced from the former president attacking her character after she came out with allegations of sexual assault.

After the conclusion of the day's Carroll hearing, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that "today’s theme — other than Judge Lew Kaplan’s increasingly acerbic handling of objections — owes more to Kanye than T. Swift, to this Swiftie’s chagrin."

"Stay with me. During his cross of Carroll’s damages expert, Northwestern professor Ashlee Humphreys, Trump lawyer Michael Madaio spent virtually no time attacking her bottom line conclusion: that it would take roughly $10-12 million to restore Carroll’s reputation," Rubin wrote, adding that the lawyer "focused on minor, inadvertent 'labeling errors' in carrying over data from her initial expert report to her supplemental analysis" She added that "he also questioned whether Humphreys considered that Carroll was not damaged because she has made more money since Trump defamed her."

That's when it all clicked into place, according to Rubin.

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"In fact, wasn’t Carroll more famous as a consequence of Trump’s statements, Madaio asked her? And that’s when I realized: Their defense is straight out of Ye’s 'Famous,' in which he boasts he made 'that b--ch,' aka today’s Time Person of the Year, well, famous," the lawyer wrote.

She then proceeds to tear apart the argument.

"And just like Kanye’s jumping on the MTV Music Awards stage is hardly what made Taylor famous, nor can Trump credibly claim responsibility for Carroll’s success in life," Rubin said. "She was 76 when she came forward with her story of having been sexually assaulted by him in the ‘90s."

Rubin continued:

"And by that point, she had authored 5 books, written dozens of articles for publications like Esquire and Rolling Stone, and helmed a 27-year-long advice column for a major women’s magazine. She was Carrie Bradshaw before Candace Bushnell invented her."

Finally, she said that Trump’s "two-pronged defense (at least in court) is 1) 'I made you famous,' and you’re richer, more widely read, and better known than before I put your name in my mouth."