Donald Trump left the courtroom shortly after E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, began her closing arguments in the defamation trial.
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The departure took place a few minutes after the judge, without the jury in the room, threatened to arrest Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, for continuing to speak to her client when she was warned to stop doing so.
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As Trump left, Kaplan continued to present his argument to the court, highlighting that the former president did not respect the jury’s previous verdict, not even for 24 hours.
After Trump left, Judge Lewis Kaplan (no relation to the lawyer) briefly interrupted Roberta Kaplan to record: “The record will reflect that Mr. Trump simply stood up and left the courtroom.” The trial concerns comments made by Trump in 2019 about the writer, who last year won a favorable verdict in relation to her allegation of sexual assault by Trump in the 1990s, followed by defamation when she publicly accused him. for the first time. Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in damages.
