Donald Trump took to his personal social media account on Wednesday afternoon during the lunch break in the E. Jean Carroll defamation damages trial.
After a difficult morning in Trump was admonished by the judge and forced to follow the rules of the court, the ex-president raged online that the way he was being treated was unfair.
Trump then seemed to throw his lawyer in the first Carroll case, Joe Tacopina — who withdrew from representing him earlier this week — under the bus, saying he had told him not to attend that trial, which found him liable for defamation and sexual abuse in May last year.
The current trial involves separate comments involving the same sexual abuse, which Carroll claims are also defamatory. The judge has already found him liable, with the trial mainly to determine damages.
"I was asked not to go by my lawyers because it was 'beneath me as a former President of the United States," Trump said about the first trial.
He later whined, "There was no way that case should have been lost! I was accused of something that I didn’t do."
Trump complained that Judge Lewis Kaplan was "extraordinarily hostile to our side" in the first trial.
He confessed he should have gone because there needed to be a "witness" who would "speak up against the abuse carried out by this judge." Trump has been in attendance at the first two days of the current trial, though he has yet to officially address the court.
Instead, he has been muttering loudly enough that the jury can hear him. The judge asked him to stop twice and has threatened to throw him out.
Trump then whined that he shouldn't have to be at the trial at all because it should be delayed due to his mother-in-law's funeral, which is on Thursday.
ALSO READ: 'Chaos': Fired Highland Park rec director details trauma of July 4 mass shooting
"Now, because I want to be at this Witch Hunt 100% of the time and watch what is going on, my attorneys asked the Judge for a one day delay so that I can attend the funeral of my beloved mother-in-law, with my wife and entire family, tomorrow in Palm Beach, Florida," he posted.
"The Judge, angrily, and somewhat surprisingly, said NO, you can go to the trial, or you can go to the funeral, but not both. He is abusive, rude, and obviously not impartial but, that’s the way this crooked system works!"
Trump has been working hard to delay all of his trials until after the 2024 election. This defamation case has been going on since 2019.
Trump's lawyer Alina Habba has also been admonished by the judge for constantly speaking out of turn, not following court procedure, and not having reasons for her objections.
