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Luke wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:29 am Has he said her name yet? Last I checked, he still hadn't. That is really an accomplishment. Robbie Kaplan said she was watching and if he did it again, boom back to court.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch.

Kaplan, who has represented clients in high-profile cases against Trump, including E. Jean Carroll, said on an episode of the “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)” podcast recorded Thursday that she rejected the former president’s request that they work through a lunch break because he believed the deposition was “a waste of my time.”

“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain. You could really almost see it,” Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. “And he said, ‘Well, you’re here in Mar-a-Lago. What do you think you’re going to do for lunch? Where are you going to get lunch?’”

Kaplan said she told him that his attorneys had “graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch — a common civil practice between opposing legal teams.

“At which point there was a huge pile of documents, exhibits, sitting in front of him, and he took the pile and he just threw it across the table. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch.

“He really yelled at Alina for that. He was so mad at Alina,” she said.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:59 pm NY Post called the $83.3 mil verdict "eye popping". " It is "mouth shutting" as well since tfg hasn't said nary a word.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:32 pm

A quick Google shows that the federal judge (in NY) dismissed the video phone case a couple of weeks ago, saying the plaintiffs needed to go to state court in the states where they live.

So that'll be quite for a while.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/politics ... index.html

Kaplan continued: “He came back in and he said, ‘Well, how’d you like the lunch?’ And I said, ‘Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I’m taking testimony.’ And he said, ‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”

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In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.

“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.

Kaplan said that she was initially confused, as their next meeting was set for a Wednesday. “You could tell it was like, it was like a kind of a joke again, like teenage boys would come up with. But again, I wasn’t in on the joke,” she said.

Using private investigators—or, more broadly, the research work they do—is standard fare on a political campaign. Candidates want to dig up dirt on their enemies, and they want to know their own vulnerabilities. But Trump wasn’t looking into himself or his political enemies. In fact, Trump wasn’t doing anything explicitly political.

He was looking into the actions of his own lawyers.

According to a source familiar with the situation, the private investigators were commissioned to look into missteps by Trump’s legal team in the early stages of his rape defamation case against E. Jean Carroll.

Specifically, this source said, the private eye looked into who Trump’s lawyers had interviewed—and who they hadn’t.

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 5:04 am Perhaps a lightly modified apothegm is required for Trump: if you can't pay the dime, don't do the crime.

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:52 pm

Specifically, this source said, the private eye looked into who Trump’s lawyers had interviewed—and who they hadn’t.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pac ... wn-lawyers

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 5:04 am So Trump might be considering suing his attorneys for the 90 million or so that the Carroll cases cost him?

That does not sounds an attractive gig for any other law firm, does it? Especially not a competent firm careful of its reputation.

And that's without the issue of Trump not paying bills generally.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:08 pm If Judge Kaplan is considering sanctions for La Habba et al, would that slow it down?

chancery wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:41 pmIMO it's unlikely that Judge Kaplan is considering issuing a sanctions order on his own motion.