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Trump WALKS OUT while Carroll’s atty makes closing remarks after judge loses it, threatens to jail Habba

January 26, 2024 | | Print Article

Donald Trump reportedly “stormed out” of the courtroom Friday right after a lawyer for E. Jean Carroll began closing arguments at his defamation trial.

That’s according to the Associated Press, which said the former president’s actions sent Secret Service scrambling.

“Just minutes after attorney Roberta Kaplan began her closing argument in Manhattan federal court, Trump suddenly rose from his seat at the defense table and walked toward the exit, pausing to scan the packed courtroom as members of the Secret Service leaped up to follow him out,” the news agency reported.

“The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said, interrupting Carroll’s attorney.

Before the GOP presidential frontrunner exited, Judge Kaplan threatened to send Trump attorney Alina Habba to jail “for continuing to talk when he told her she was finished,” AP reported.

“You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. Now sit down,” the judge told Habba.

In his first comments after walking out, Trump said: “The Courts are totally stacked against me.”

“He wouldn’t allow us to use the totally exonerating Anderson Cooper/CNN Interview on either trial, but none of it in the second,” the former president said of the judge. “Our Legal System is in shambles! This is another Biden Demanded Witch Hunt against his Political Opponent, funded and managed by Radical Left Democrats.”

In another Truth Social comment, Trump noted: “I have been considered an A-List celebrity for many decades, so even decades ago, since no one knows which date or dates to refer to, because the accusing woman can’t say the day, month, season, year, or decade, it would have been impossible for me to walk into a crowded department store (surrounded by buildings I own), right opposite the cashiers’ checkout desk, without being written about on Page Six, and every other outlet at the time.”

Trump returned to the courtroom when Habba delivered her closing argument — the attorney insisted that Carroll has “failed to show that she is entitled to any damages at all.”

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Carroll claimed that Trump raped her nearly 30 years ago in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store across from Trump Tower. A New York City jury decided last year that Trump was not liable for rape but was liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and he was ordered to pay his accuser $5 million.

Trump has repeatedly denied the accusation, insisting that he has “absolutely no idea who this woman is.” The denials prompted Carroll to file a second defamation lawsuit, claiming that his response caused harm to her reputation.

Judge Kaplan already found Trump liable in the second defamation case, with the current jury being tasked with deciding how much Trump must pay Carroll in damages.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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