E. Jean Carroll's lawyer delivered a slew of zingers as she faced off against former President Donald Trump in a federal appeals court Friday.
Attorney Roberta Kaplan appeared unimpressed with arguments Trump's lawyers delivered to a panel of Second Circuit judges considering the Republican presidential nominee's appeal of the now-$90 million verdict in Carroll's defamation lawsuit.
At one point, Kaplan quipped Trump's defense amounted to "Too many lawyers trying to screw in a lightbulb."
National security attorney Bradley Moss replied on X, "That’s the quote of the day for me."
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Kaplan, whose client has successfully sued the former president twice for defamation and sex abuse related to an encounter Trump denies in a department store dressing room in the 1990s, did not limit her quips to the Republican presidential nominee's attorneys.
She noted Trump himself was present in the New York courtroom and suggested his silence there was telling.
"Mr. Trump is here today," Kaplan told the court. "He could have taken the stand."
Trump's appeal rests on the argument that certain evidence presented at trial was improperly admitted, namely the Access Hollywood tape in which he boasts of his ability to "grab women by the p-----" and testimony from a woman who said he'd groped her during a flight.
On Friday, Kaplan defended the testimony, arguing that Trump had violated federal law in 1979 with an act of simple assault.
"On an airplane, the defendant touched," Kaplan said, "I'm sorry, her tush."
