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Donald Trump stormed out of court as jurors were listening to E. Jean Carroll's lawyer's closing argument in the veteran journalist's $10 million defamation case against the ex-president, who is now an adjudicated rapist after Carroll's first sexual abuse and defamation case against him.

Roberta Kaplan, the renowned attorney representing Carroll, "told the jury that Trump is a liar who thinks 'the rules don’t apply to him,'" NBC News reports. She added, “Ms. Carroll did not make it up, the sexual assault happened and his denials were all complete lies."

Donald Trump has had "rolling hissy fits" about E. Jean Carroll, his criminal courtroom dramas, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley — and now he's stomping into the Senate's Ukraine and border debates.

The fact that he's so angry about so many things is a sign that he's "becoming unglued," Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton wrote Friday.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan on Friday urged the jury in the E. Jean Carroll damages trial to bring the hammer down on former President Donald Trump for defaming her client.

In her closing argument, Kaplan recounted how Trump had continued to attack Carroll publicly even after a jury last year awarded her $5 million and found him liable for defaming and sexually abusing her.

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.

Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba got off to another rough start on Friday morning as the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial began by arriving late and already getting into a squabble with Judge Lewis Kaplan.

According to reporting from the courtroom, Habba and her client arrived ten minutes late and they were admonished for holding up the proceedings.

Former President Donald Trump walked out of court Friday just minutes after proceedings started in what's expected to be the final day of the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.

"The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom," Judge Lewis Kaplan said as Trump left the building, according to The Messenger's Adam Klasfeld, who is in the courtroom.

A CNN host shouted over a former GOP governor Friday as he suggested brave Senate Republicans would stand up to Donald Trump to push through a border deal.

Mark Sanford, who was governor South Carolina and a congressman, had been describing Senate Republicans' frustrations as a border deal weeks in the making looks set to be scrapped because Trump doesn’t like it.

When E. Jean Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan makes her closing argument, expected on Friday, she will ask the jury in the high-profile defamation trial to hit Donald Trump so hard in the wallet that he will fear attacking her client once again.

That is the opinion of MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who explained to the "Morning Joe" panel on Friday morning that the former president could be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in punitive damages above the estimated $12.1 million reportedly being sought by the New York writer.

Asked by MSNBC contributor Katty Kay, "What is the scale of compensation of damages we are looking at here?" Rubin suggested the dollar amount could be astronomical.

"First of all, something far more than what she was awarded last time, where the award was $5 million, based on her sexual assault and defamation claims from one incident in October 2022," Rubin replied.

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'You and I both know, when you tell a lie after the first time, it's far more damaging," she continued. "Her lawyers are asking for 20 plus million dollars to compensate her for her injuries, and then four, five, six times that for punitive damages."

"It's not clear to me they will actually ask for a specific amount or even multiplier of the compensatory damages," she elaborated. "They will say think about what he told you: he was worth billions and billions and billions in his brand alone, he has $400 million cash on hand — make it hurt."

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Steven Bannon's refusal to pay his lawyer close to $500K in legal fees may end up inadvertently exposing more evidence of financial fraud by the former Donald Trump adviser.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, Bannon stiffed longtime attorney Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor, and a judge has ordered him to pay the $480,487 that is way overdue.