E Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan has been taking a well earned turn in the spotlight. She, fellow lawyer Shawn Crowley and Carroll have made the rounds on various TV shows and covered the basics of the trial, verdict and their initial reactions. Now we’re at the “juicy stories/details” point and yesterday Kaplan didn’t disappoint. On the podcast “George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)” Kaplan revealed Trump threw a tantrum during his deposition. Kaplan had travelled down to Mar A Lago to depose “Diaper Donnie” and predictably he was unhappy. Sullen, churlish, uncooperative…typical crap you’d expect. What’s funny is he threw a tantrum and tossed papers all over the table at one point!
Yep, according to an article by CNN there came a point where Trump suggested working through lunch. One can safely assume he wanted the whole thing over with since he didn’t want to be there in the first place. To be fair (I HATE being fair to Trump) most people being deposed, especially when they are in deep ca-ca want to get things over with as quickly as possible. Anyway, in a podcast yesterday Kaplan told Conway and Longwell she rejected Trump’s suggestion because he believed it was “a waste of my time.” Trump might think himself the master of head games but I’m sure you’d agree Kaplan is more than a match for the likes of Trump.
As we’ll see she was ready for Trump bullshit. No way she was going to let him be in charge in any way! So as I’ve stated after their exchange things got “interesting.” Per CNN:
“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?’”
Trump no doubt thought he was being oh so clever, and that he had her cornered. To which I’d tell Trump “Dude, you are WAY the hell out of your league.” First of all Kaplan as she’d go on to note didn’t like to eat a lunch on such days. She had a banana to snack on to tide her over. Second, attorneys routinely make arrangements for each other on such days. Whomever is hosting arranges meals/snacks for everyone. Even lawyers that hate each other do this. It’s just how things are done. So Kaplan politely told Trump his own lawyers had graciously offered to provide” her team with lunch and Trump wigged out:
“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.
I can’t say I’m surprised. Kaplan is a pro and has her routine for days like she expected to have and was prepared with that banana to get her through “lunch” alert and ready to keep going. Here’s a wild thought now that Habba is headed to “coffee girl” status in Trump World. Maybe she has a “come to Jesus” revelation as in realize Trump is NOT Jesus, runs away fast as she can’t and truly repents. Kaplan takes mercy on her and allows Habba to be “coffee girl” at her firm, and she and the others can teach her how to actually be a lawyer someday. (Hey, I’m in a weird place today so if you think that’s too “out there” I understand) But I digress.
Trump of course came back in (not that he had a choice) once he simmered down. However, being Trump he just had to try to gain the upper hand. As you can guess he failed:
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.’”
I love the thought of Trump desperately trying to one-up Kaplan who has dealt with far smarter, more savvy and tougher folks than Donald J. Trump. What I love even more is the reaction we’ll be getting if Trump learns Kaplan has spoken publicly about this little tantrum of his. He’s already taken shots at her. Could she be baiting him into yet another defamation lawsuit where she’s the plaintiff? I doubt she’d bother as by the time she and the state of NY are done with Trump there won’t be enough left to make it worth the time and effort. Trump’s empire is about to implode. Still it’s a fun thing to contemplate.
Given the stories about how bad he smells I can’t say (to paraphrase the movie line) that I love the smell of fried big ole chunk of Trump’s ass in the morning. Yet I have to say I find it oddly satisfying.
Hey dumpy…she makes great sandwiches also…shit sandwiches that cost you tens of millions!!! Bon Appétit Asshole!!
Dumpy Trumpy was professionally force fed a well desguised sandwich of ‘Hot tongue and cold shoulder’ that certainly looked like a ‘shite sandwich’ to Trump, from his position. Dumpy Trumpy not only blinked, he also chocked.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. Ben Franklin