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‘Bratty’ and ‘Megalomaniacal’ Trump Mocked for Storming Out of Court After Being Criticized
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.”
“After Trump walked out, the lawyer told the jury ‘he thinks with his wealth and power he can treat Ms. Carroll how he wants and will suffer no consequences.’ Trump, who’s called Carroll ‘sick,’ ‘mentally ill’ and a ‘wack job,’ among other insults, ‘can’t attack her just because he feels like it,’ Kaplan said.”
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll’s attorney, instructed the court, “The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom.”
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Some were quick to mock Trump, who is known for having a “thin skin” despite being quick to attack those who oppose or criticize him, often by hurling insults, falsehoods, and creating juvenile nicknames.
“The bratty ill-mannered megalomaniacal former president has stormed out of courtroom after Carroll’s lawyer says he thinks rules don’t apply to him — proving her point and virtually begging the jury to impose stratospheric punitive damages,” observed professor of law, political commentator, and former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman.
“Trump throws one of his classic temper tantrums, storms out of court during closing arguments when E. Jean Carroll’s attorney told the jury Trump ‘doesn’t think the rules apply to him’. He’s such a snowflake,” mocked former NBCUniversal senior executive Mike Sington.
Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told CNN one “strategy” defense attorneys use sometimes is to “try to distract the jury,” in an attempt to “create a circus” and “distract from the evidence, distract from all of the comments that Trump has made in the past that are coming back to haunt him.”
Watch CNN’s report below or at this link.
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