The fireworks continued on Friday during the closing arguments in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial as Judge Lewis Kaplan shot down a complaint from the former president's legal team about a mention of Rudy Giuliani's huge defamation case loss.
Hanging like a cloud over Trump as the Carroll jury ponders damages the former president will have to stump up is the stunning $148 million former Trump lawyer Giuliani was ordered to pay late last year for defaming two Georgia election workers.
After Trump lawyer Alina Habba and her client entered the courtroom late and were admonished, she got into an argument with the judge and was threatened with being sent to spend "some time in lock-up."
Then Trump stormed out while the judge was addressing the courtroom.
According to Inner City Press, as E. Jean Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan brought up the Giuliani judgment during her closing argument, Habba's law partner Michael Madaio exclaimed, "Objection!"
That led Judge Kaplan to reply, "It's up to the jury."
Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan later told the jury, "The dollar number to compensate her has to be very large. At least as much as $12 million for the reputational repair campaign, and probably more. And how much will it take to get Donald Trump to stop?"
