Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch | CNN Politics
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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.

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.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    90·
    10 months ago

    I won’t quote all of that part

    I will, because not everyone has the time or the desire to go to a news site and get blasted with ads and tracking cookies for an article they are only marginally interested in. So here’s the rest:

    “I wasn’t in on the joke, so I had no idea. Then we get into the car and my colleagues are like, ‘Robbie, do you know what that means?’ And I’m like, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ They tell me and I’m like, oh my God, thank God I didn’t know because had I known, I for sure would have gotten angry. There’s no question I would have gotten angry,” Kaplan said

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      You also missed the part when, after the deposition was over, Trump’s lawyers, who we all know now are incompetent and inattentive to details, immediately sprung up to confirm that they were now off the record. They knew what he was going to say.

      That means they had to plan it. Trump must have gone to them ahead of time and said “I’m gonna call her a cunt straight to her face, and there’s nothing you can do to make me stop”. So they had to enact a strategy to make sure it didn’t get into the record. And then, they probably had to snicker a bit to prove they thought the joke was totally OK and they really got her good.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        271·
        10 months ago

        I really do imagine that everyone of them has to fake laugh at all his jokes. I bet there’s always a stare and a long uncomfortable silence whenever someone doesn’t react quick enough, like you see in the movies.

        • mPony@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 months ago

          Having to be a personal sycophant to that jerk is arguably close to selling your soul to the devil.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Devils at least hold up their end of a bargain. Sure, they may try to trick you, but they don’t withhold their end of am agreement. What do you think the odds are that these lawyers are going to be paid in full?

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        22·
        10 months ago

        Similar story.

        After catching Covid, he wanted to leave the hospital wearing a Superman shirt. Someone had to talk the President of the United States out of acting like a child.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          181·
          10 months ago

          Man, I remember that. Then they lied to the country about how sick he really was. They had discussions about whether he should go to the hospital or not and ultimately they decided he was getting worse and worse and that he had to go right then so that he could be seen walking to the helicopter. If they had waited, he would not have then able to walk. Of course he was vaccinated and immediately got the best care, I wonder how many of his dumbass supporters died because they figured “well Trump lived without vaccinations or a mask, I will too.”

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            11·
            10 months ago

            Reminds me of a different story.

            After he noped out of the WW1 Centennial ceremonies because it was raining, they had to arrange a photo op of him going to Arlington in the rain to place flowers. Ignoring the fact that he could have gone to Arlington every day of his Presidency…

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
        15·
        10 months ago

        That means they had to plan it.

        I don’t think that’s true at all. It sounds like day 1 material for “lawyering for cunts school”. Like if you’ve just had a tense meeting with the opposition, and your client is a childish idiot, then of course he’s going to try a parting jibe. You would absolutely 100% pop up and say “that’s it folks off the record now LOL”

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      10 months ago

      I can’t imagine a better response even if she knew what he meant. “What do you mean Donald? Our meeting is Wednesday, did you forget?”