Donald Trump attends the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial in New York with attorney Alina Habba.
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Donald Trump walked out of a Manhattan courtroom in the middle of closing arguments in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial on Friday.
Trump abruptly got up and left as Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, argued in her closing statements that Trump doesn’t respect the jury.
“He continued to defame Ms. Carroll even as this trial was ongoing,” Kaplan told the jury.
Kaplan told the jurors just moments before Trump exited the courtroom that the former president has already been found liable for defaming Carroll and should be held responsible for not listening to a previous jury verdict.
As Trump left, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said, “The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom.”
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