Why Trump judge’s 'irritation reached new heights' with 'ill-prepared' legal team: analyst

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who was in the courtroom during day three of journalist E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial against Donald Trump Thursday, explained how the former president's legal team's lack of preparation took presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan's "irritability" to new levels.

Asking Rubin about what she saw in the courtroom today, MSNBC's Alicia Menendez asked Rubin during the latest episode of Deadline: White House, "What would we have missed not being there? What I love about your reporting it's in the substance of the legal arguments, but in the little things you see and pick up on that no one else does."

The legal analyst replied, "Alicia, we saw Judge [Lewis] Kaplan reach new heights in terms of his irritability. I spoke with you yesterday how Alina Habba lacks facility or fluency in trial mechanics. She's not an experienced federal trial lawyer. Today we saw that even more so at one point the judge said to her, Ms. Habba, it's evidence 101. From her side you're not seeing well formed questions. You're seeing a lot of assumptions without putting facts in evidence. You're seeing errors in putting pieces of paper into evidence. And I wonder how that has to read to the jury too. Because on one hand you're seeing a judge grow increasingly irritable with one side of this two sided litigation debate. On the other hand, it's deserved. They seem very out of place in this courtroom, particularly when contrasted with some of the folks on E. Jean Carroll's team, including a former prosecutor who knows exactly what she's doing in that regard."

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She continued, "Kaplan's irritation reached new heights this afternoon when he said [to Trump's lawyer] in other words, 'Move on. We've been through this. You're wasting everybody's time. Stop it.' And then he said, 'We all know Lincoln was the 16th.' In other words, you are treading well-trod ground already. You're establishing facts we've heard a million times and you're running yourself in circles and wasting the jury's time and mine.' That has to be a consideration for the jury too. Not just are they watching Donald Trump disrespect the judge and the jury, but they're watching his very ill-prepared team disrespect them too."

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