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.
every single person who voted for him is exactly the same kind of whiny cunt
Was there any ketchup on those papers?
If there had been he would have mistaken them for fries and eaten them.
‘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.
…what the fuck does it mean? No, I’m not googling it.
Apparently c u Next Tuesday is how it was originally spelled.
Ah, yes, thank you. My God, what a fucking knob. One more for the pile.
So literally a teenage boys brain.
“Hurr hurr, I can’t call her a cunt cause teacher will get mad”
He must be hurting for money
lol. I’m glad he suffered a little.
I think Trump has just turned into the personification of the little foul goblin that comprises the soul of every billionaire.
He was always that foul little goblin. Since 1946.
Yeah this isn’t new news.
This man is such a child
Few children are rapists.
Few men are either.
My interpretation of your comment is “if you rape, then you’re not a man-henceforth few men are rapists”
That would be correct.
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.
I don’t get it, what is c u next Tuesday?
Wait am I trump
First letter of each word spells out “cunt,” a rude term in the states for a “terrible woman.”
“see you next tuesday” phonetically spells it out, and is a passable normal phrase. Its also a sexist joke that a 12 yr old would tell. The fact that it qualifies as humor/spite for a 77yr old ex president is sad as fuck.
To be fair I’m surprised he still has enough mastery of the written word to come up with that all by himself.
Its not an original. It’s been around for a very long time.
Synt
If you don’t understand the phrase, wouldn’t that make you Roberta Kaplan, not Trump?
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.
He threw his wife down some stairs
if he throws stack o papers for lunch, he’s gonna throw an embolism when reality finally comes knocking.
he’s gonna throw an embolism when reality finally comes knocking.
I’m not really bothered by that outcome.
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.
Wait, you’re telling me Trump has no sense of common decency?! Shocking.
“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?
Oh man i love this image so much, im stealing it.
Give him a tiny dude on a horse charging the windmill for a nose and you’ve got a good metaphor for how wading into some comment sections feels
This is the best thing I’ve seen on Lemmy I think
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
He did something to the sandwiches.
If this was an episode of Veep, it would be a bit over the top.
If this was ‘The Simpsons’ it would be over the top
That show is looking more like a documentary these days
I loved Veep, it’s hilarious to me watching it now that basically any scandal on that show would be completely innocuous compared to what we have been dealing with since it ended.
It’s like his peanut brain is only able to process the thoughts that he likes
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.
‘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?
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.
Yes, it was charming, bless his heart.
The one insult more insulting than “see you next Tuesday”!
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?
I know a guy, started as a company accountant and built a billion dollar business that Goldman Sachs bought.
One of his negotiation tactics was getting a smoker into a room and not letting them out until they signed.
Worked for him LoL.
isn’t that imprisonment?
Are you serious? You think he locked him in the room or something?
Peonage maybe.
I’m 1000% sure he has never done any parenting.
The closest he’s ever come to being a good parent was when he told Waldo that he’s “the best son money can buy” in Little Rascals.
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.
“I was too busy running the county!”
“I was too busy ruining the county!”
That’s better.
Not any good parenting, anyway.
He’s such a Cartman.
well, cartman at least has business sense lol
Cartman had more class…
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.
Well he’s arguably the best character but a total asshole and not someone you’d want to emulate
Those people probably also think Rick Sanchez is the hero.
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”
The one time I felt bad for Cartman was when they smashed all his electronics when someone else was leaking rumors. Them he still became such an asswipe his own mom chewed him out. He’s funny but he’s not relatable.
Still think about how he fed Scott Tennerman his parents and they call back to our consistently.
That fucking brat needs many spankings.
With a Forbes magazine?
Nah, I think he’s earned a nice unabridged version of the OED.
Or Negan’s bat.
This yam turd rolled in hair needs a lot more than that. Prison’s a good start.
No argument here, friend.
He should have been forced to pick it all up and put it back in order
As if Mr. “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. Whale.” has the mental cogs for that. 🙄
