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Still under the weather so I won’t post as much today. But had to post this. #Trump #EJeanCarroll #legal
Via Inner City Press: 1/…🧵
Judge Kaplan: So let me say, during the arguments and instructions, no one else is to speak...
Carroll's lawyer: We have an issue with some of the tweets, they were not entered into evidence.
Madaio: These are tweets during the five hour gap. They are objecting.
Judge Kaplan: You did not succeed in entering them. Show me the slide
[Me: wait for it…]
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4/ NOTE: I won’t reply to you today, for the most part. Not up to par. I’ll post when I feel up to it. Thanks ahead of time for all your replies.
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2/ Press:
Judge Kaplan: You are not showing the slide.
Habba: Your Honor, Ms. Kaplan stipulated -
🔥🔥Judge Kaplan: Sit down. You are on the verge of spending some time in the lock up.
(Habba appears to laugh)
Judge Kaplan: Bring in the jury
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3/ Judge previously said this, too:
Judge Kaplan: "No one in the courtroom is to say anything except for opposing counsel...there are to be no interruptions by anybody else. No audible comments by anybody else."
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5/ Roberta Kaplan: Donald Trump's testimony yesterday was brief because he doesn't get a do-over
Trump's lawyer Madaio: Objection!
Judge Kaplan: Overruled.
Roberta Kaplan: This is about how to compensate Ms. Carroll for the two statements- & punishing Donald Trump.
This trial is about getting him to stop once and for all. It's also about whether the rules apply to all, including to Donald Trump. Think of his attitude to this proceeding - he says, She was asking for it
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6/ Tantrump! Trump just “stormed out of court” (NBC)
Roberta Kaplan: He claims he had no choice but to break the law & defame her. She was a beloved advice columnist. Then a wave on soc med, echoing what Donald Trump says. … "pay dearly" & "dangerous territory."
Donald Trump has tried to normalize this conduct. Normally, when people lose in court, they court, they change their behavior.
👉🏼👉🏼[Trump leaves]
👉🏼👉🏼Judge Kaplan: The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and left the courtroom
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8/ Roberta Kaplan: Her 274 page book contained nine pages about Donald Trump. New York Magazine published that. Donald Trump then told lie after lie after lie, to destroy her. Put up Slide 4
[Press: It is entitled, Defamatory Statement:
disgrace... never met this person]
7:07 AM · Jan 26, 2024
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7/ R Kaplan: Ms. Carroll's friend Carol Martin said she just wanted her day in court. Now she has it.
👉🏼👉🏼Judge Kaplan: We're going to change gears. The defense is to remain seated. That includes you, Mr. Epshteyn, not that you're part of the defense🔥
R Kaplan: Ms. Carroll's success as an advice columnist obviously relied on her audience's trust. She built it over decades. She had one truth too painful to share - in the Spring of 1996 Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. She tried to suppress it
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12/ Klasfeld clarifies:
Carroll's team uses Rudy Giuliani's defamation of Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman as a guide for what's necessary for reputational repair.
They want Trump to pay between $7 to $12.1 million for this category alone.
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10/ Roberta Kaplan: Then he claimed the photo was blurry. It is not. This was classic Donald Trump.
Now, the damages. Obviously Ms. Carroll suffered harm... She now has only 1800 paying customers on Substack. Professor Humphreys gave you the estimates of harm
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11/ Roberta Kaplan: Prof Humphreys estimates between 7 and 12 million dollars to repair reputation - smaller than other programs, as she explained.
Madaio: Objection. It's not in the record.
Roberta Kaplan: It is.
Judge Kaplan: The defense asked about other programs
Roberta Kaplan: She told you about the case of Rudi Giuliani and the Georgia elections workers -
Madaio: Objection!
Judge Kaplan: It's up to the jury.
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9/ RK Donald Trump was lying and trying to destroy Ms. Carroll. On the White House lawn he repeated it, claiming that he didn't know her. He threatened her - People have to be careful, because they're playing with very dangerous territory
He said, She is not my type. This was designed to humiliate Ms. Carroll. But remember, he mistook Ms. Carroll for Marla Maples, his ex-wife, also a beauty queen. Show the video
[on video: Trump: "that's John Johnson... And that's Marla...]
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"Tantrump! " 🤣🤣🤣
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24/ Roberta Kaplan: Next, we say another $12 million, probably much more. On punitives, I'm not going to tell you exactly how much. You can consider his wealth. 👉🏼Donald Trump is worth billions of dollars, 🤣he said that under oath. 👈🏼😂 This will take an unusually high award
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22/ Roberta Kaplan: Judge Kaplan will tell you that a person who has been defamed has no duty to mitigate. Donald Trump's defense table, the first very day, made an argument that has no basis in law. They're saying she had a duty to keep her mouth shut
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23/ [Me: RK is brilliant]
RK: Donald Trump claims she actually benefited. It takes a lot of gall to make an argument like that. Donald Trump's lawyer described Ms. Carroll as a fame-seeking monster-
Habba: Objection!
Judge: The jury will recall what was said
RK:I'm going to sit down in a couple of min, I promise. On behalf of E. Jean and our whole team, thank you for paying attention to the evidence which was ugly. How much will it take to fix her reputation? Between 7 to 12 million. We say 12.
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20/ Roberta Kaplan: Donald Trump can't even deny -
Madaio: Objection
Roberta Kaplan: .. he can't deny because of the first trial... Your Honor, can I go on?
Judge Kaplan: I overrule[d]
Roberta Kaplan: Donald Trump had been famous for years. Why did Ms. Carroll wait?
And via Klasfeld:
"At bottom, Trump's strategy is to blame the victim — pure and simple." [...]
"You know that's wrong. Donald Trump isn't the victim here."
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21/ Press:
Roberta Kaplan: The so-called gap? Give me a break. The White House, which was run by Mr. Trump, had already denied -
Madaio: Objection.
Judge Kaplan: Overruled.]
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18/ RK: His attacks have intensified. While Ms. Carroll was still on the stand, he held a press conference - while you were still sitting the jury box - watch this
[Video of 40 Wall St press conference: It's a rigged deal, it's a made up fabricated story
Last Thursday he said, I've said it a thousand times, I never heard of E Jean Carroll and would never touch her.
Are you kidding me? A thousand times? It's up to you to make him stop. He is very wealthy. He said his brand is worth $10 billion
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19/ Roberta Kaplan: He said Mar-a-Lago is worth $1.5 billion
Madaio: Objection. These are not personal assets.
Judge Kaplan: Overruled. The jury will remember what was said.
You can award punitive damages. Yesterday my cross showed he didn't come to 1st trial - but he came to this one - 🔥well until just now🔥 - because he cares about money. So your decision is the only hope
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16/ Roberta Kaplan: Consider what Donald Trump has done here. He said she made it up, she was a disgrace; he threatened her twice, he unleashed millions of others to flood her with hate. We played his deposition - he called her mentally sick, and threatened to sue
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17/ Roberta Kaplan: Watch this CNN Town Hall
[Trump: My poll numbers went up [audience cheers] I have no idea who this woman is, she is a wack job]
Roberta Kaplan: Did you see that? The audience laughed. It made Ms. Carroll feel horribly
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15/ Roberta Kaplan: 👉🏼The dollar number to compensate her has to be very large. At least as much as $12 million for the reputational repair campaign, and probably more. And how much will it take to get Donald Trump to stop? Punitive damages are to punish the malicious
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13/ Press:
Roberta Kaplan: Imagine being Ms Kaplan in that hotel room on 10th Avenue, struck by fear and sadness - the man who attacked her was coming after her again. She wanted to close the curtain. So she hung up jump suit - she was unable to sleep
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14/ Roberta Kaplan: There were more threats waiting for her every time she answered her phone. She tweeted, the world needs love - the responses were, "you are a c*nt" and "no way Trump touched this mess," etc. Since 2019 they have never stopped
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