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Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch (www.cnn.com)

submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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.

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.

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 139 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Kaplan continued: “He came back in and he said, ‘Well, how’d you like the lunch?’ And I said, ‘Well, sir, I had a banana. You know, I can never really eat when I’m taking testimony.’ And he said, ‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’”

"I told them to make you really bad sandwiches." He literally sounds like a toddler
She was wise not to eat sandwiches, I think

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's like his peanut brain is only able to process the thoughts that he likes

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 41 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that stuck out to me also. He had a flow in his mind for the conversation, and reacted to what she said inside his mind, while completely missing the totally different thing which she actually said. It was already clear that his brain works that way but it is an instructively candid example from his unscripted life.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

‘Well, I told you,’ — it was kind of charming. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. We have the best sandwiches.’

Charming?

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the closest Trump gets to genuine charm is when he accidentally starts to resemble a goofy Saturday morning cartoon show villain, "Ah, I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for my nincompoop henchmen! I tell you, it's impossible for supervillains like me to find reliable evildoers these days, why is no one talking about this?"

Like, he's not trying to be charming, he's trying to threateningly project power, but he's so bad at it it comes off like a joke.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it was charming, bless his heart.

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If this was an episode of Veep, it would be a bit over the top.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 100 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Oooh, they buried the good stuff here:

In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.

Kaplan said that she was initially confused, as their next meeting was set for a Wednesday.

I won't quote all of that part, because it's worth reading. Go ahead, click on it. Donald Trump is such a mean girl.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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.world 34 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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."

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 7 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"

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[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

"See you next Tuesday" is a derogatory euphemism?

Edit: I would have never figured out what it was supposed to mean on my own. I had never heard of that before and judging by all the quick replies it's a more well known insult then I would have guessed.

[–] ttsci@lemmy.world 80 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

See (C) you (U) next (N) Tuesday (T) - yes, it's childish.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No way lmao, I never would've thought of that.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 points 7 months ago

Good people don't.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

The former president of the United States, what a classy guy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

She should come back on Tuesday

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Mmm, yes, please become the eternal emperor of the free world. 50,000 years and finally we've found the Chosen One.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

It's the type of thing a junior high kid would say to a frenemy to sound edgy, while at the same time avoiding all the "naughty words" that would get them in trouble with the teacher.

So, totally on brand for Donald Trump. Actually a bit too mature for him, since he's said directly that his temperment hasn't changed at all since first grade.

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

C U Next Tuesday.

He was calling her a cunt without using the word.

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 90 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It sounds like he wanted to deny them food as a negotiating tactic and got big mad when that was undermined? Sleazy.

Can you imagine having ... that... as a parent?

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I’m 1000% sure he has never done any parenting.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

None of these fuckers have. I remember watching Jeff Sessions up there talking about how God wants him to put refugee children in cages and it just clicked in my head. The man has never once cared for a child in his life. Oh sure he provided the sperm, he used tax dollars to hire the nannies, but the actual effort of being a parent he has not performed.

You never see any of these people struggling with a car seat, or telling a story about being late cause their kid threw up, or having to leave work to go see their kids school play.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago (4 children)

A supposed billionaire throwing a tantrum over buying lunch. If he is a billionaire, he has more money than most ordinary people will ever see in their lifetimes, yet I've seen more kindness from among impoverished folks who lived in cow-dung huts.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It's not about money, to him it's about helping the enemy.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That and he didn't get his way to not have a lunch break. He thought he had the power to say no since they were at Mar a lago and they wouldn't have option for a lunch if he said so, then got angry when he lost on that little decision. That's the temperament of the GOP forerunner, can't even be overruled on a lunch decision without being set off.

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[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

I'd bet good money that he was only furious because it ruined his (pathetic) attempt to bully her into skipping lunch, and made him look like a fool when it failed. That's exactly the kind of thing that would make him furious.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think Trump has just turned into the personification of the little foul goblin that comprises the soul of every billionaire.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He was always that foul little goblin. Since 1946.

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

every single person who voted for him is exactly the same kind of fucking baby

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This man is such a child

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Few children are rapists.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 37 points 7 months ago (5 children)

If he threw a stack of papers after being told he had to buy them lunch, I wonder what he did after being told he had to pay them $83.3 million.

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

It was probably less about money (though he definitely still cares about that) and more like his childish strategy where he thought they would get hungry and end the deposition so they could go get food was thwarted.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain....

DId the wheels make alarming grinding noises as it broke off the rust before seizing again?

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (8 children)

That fucking brat needs many spankings.

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

I love that Roberta Kaplan is such a classy lady that when he tried on the "c u next Tuesday" it flew right past her and she was simply puzzled instead of offended like he wanted.

Literally, her own classiness robbed him of the pleasure of seeing his infantile joke land.

Nothing wrong with understanding the phrase, and plenty of classy ladies do, I'm sure, but I am really just enjoying how his own incredibly low gutter character itself robbed Trump of all the reward of trying to call Roberta Kaplan a cunt: it was literally too low for her and sailed right by.

In the moment he tried it and it failed to land he probably just seemed stupid and confused. Which, to be fair, might be his superpower at this point. He's turning out to be the Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi of own goals.

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[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

Wait, you're telling me Trump has no sense of common decency?! Shocking.

[–] justdoitlater@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Such small dick energy. How can anyone vote for this?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Birds of a feather and all that.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He's such a Cartman.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Trump's definitely the sort of person who doesn't realize that Cartman isn't meant to be relatable. I knew several people when I was a teen that unironically thought Cartman was the best character in South Park and would quote him endlessly.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Everyone in South Park tells Cartman directly to his face that he’s a fat piece of shit that everyone hates and he still thinks they all love him so this tracks.

“You guys really do think I’m cooooooooollll”

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