'Yelling at judge': Carroll attorneys say Habba 'acted more like a lawyer when' Trump 'wasn’t there'
During Monday's episode of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, writer E. Jean Carroll's attorneys, Shawn Crowley and Roberta Kaplan explained how Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba created a "nerve-wrecking" environment in the courtroom during the defamation trial — which resulted in the former president being ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages.
Maddow played a clip of Habba responding to a reporter's question about whether or not she was having second thoughts about representing the MAGA hopeful. "I'm glad you asked me that question," she replied. "No, I'm not having any second thoughts about representing President Trump. It is the proudest thing I could ever do."
Maddow said, "Yeah, but how did it go?"
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The MSNBC host then said to Kaplan and Crawley: "I wasn't going to ask this — it may be rude. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. You are both very experienced trial attorneys. You've been up against some of the best and brightest opposing counsel in all sorts of different trials. How is President Trump's lawyering? Is he well represented in court?"
Kaplan replied, "I'm going let Crowley get to that. But I will say that what you heard just now in that tape of Alina Habba leaving the court and kind of yelling at the reporters, that's what we heard every single day, multiple times during this trial, but yelling at the judge. And it was unbelievably nerve-wrecking each time it happened, and it happened multiple times every day."
Crowley said, "Yeah. Thanks for handing that one over to me. I think that she had a hard job, and you could definitely see a difference between her sort of style when he was in the courtroom and when he was not there. She was much more disciplined and frankly acted more like a lawyer when he wasn't there. When he was, you could hear him telling her when to object and muttering things, and loudly being frustrated with her. And I think she felt like she had to say things to the judge and to us and sort of put on a performance, like you just saw, in front of the TV cameras."
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