Trump Storms Out Of Court During Closing Arguments

The New York Daily News reports:

Donald Trump stormed out of the defamation trial brought by E. Jean Carroll just minutes into closing arguments by the writer’s lawyers Friday morning.

“This case is about how to compensate Ms. Carroll for the harm that Mr. Trump’s original statements — going back to June 2019 — caused her,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in Manhattan Federal Court.

Minutes after the attorney began speaking, Trump suddenly got out of his chair and left the courtroom. “Excuse me. The record will reflect that Donald Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom,” Judge Lewis Kaplan interjected, then ordering Trump’s lawyers to remain in their seats.

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