'He went bananas': Conservative George Conway describes what made Trump lose his cool
Trump was reportedly like a raging volcano when he learned his adversaries' lunch was on him.
The former president was holding court at his Mar-a-Lago club where E. Jean Carroll's attorneys had come to conduct a deposition.
When he found out they were promised a comped lunch, her attorney Roberta Kaplan remembered him going for stacks of documents, exhibits before him on the table and "just threw it across the table" she said during an episode of the “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)” podcast.
The conservative attorney co-host Conway, appearing on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins, described the retelling of this moment as extreme, even for Trump.
"He went bananas because of that," he said.
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Roberta Kaplan, who most recently won an $83.3 million defamation verdict in New York's federal court for her client, columnist E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump for suffering defamation when she came forward in a column accusing him of sexually accosting her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman.
Trump at the time when he tossed the papers was already in a bad mood, according to Kaplan.
"This is a waste of my time," she quoted him as saying.
She recalls watching the "wheels almost spinning in his brain" when he started to ask what their plans were for lunch.
"So I said to him, 'Well, you know, I raised this question with your attorneys yesterday, sir, and they graciously offered to provide us with lunch."'
This set Trump off and he took his fury out on the stack of documents to send them flying across the table.
Then, he went after his attorney Alina Habba for the lunch comp offer.
"He really yelled at Alina for that," said Kaplan. "He was so mad at Alina."
Conway had trouble making sense of the behavior; especially since it's common practice for attorneys hosting depositions to provide meals for the visiting counsel.
"I can't really explain it because I've never heard of anything like that before," he said. "It is a very common practice when you are hosting a deposition, your counsel provides lunch for everyone else, and they provide lunch usually in a separate conference room so both sides can have confidential conversations."
He continued: "And in this particular instance the deposition was held at Mar-a-Lago for Donald Trump's convenience; so it would have been perfectly understandable and was perfectly understandable that Alina Habba and the team of lawyers representing Trump ordered lunch for their adversaries."