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.
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 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
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.
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.
Having to be a personal sycophant to that jerk is arguably close to selling your soul to the devil.
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.
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.”
Reminds me of a different story.
After he noped out of the WW1 Centennial ceremonies because it was raining, they had to arrange a photo op of him going to Arlington in the rain to place flowers. Ignoring the fact that he could have gone to Arlington every day of his Presidency…
I can’t imagine a better response even if she knew what he meant. “What do you mean Donald? Our meeting is Wednesday, did you forget?”
My hero.
No seriously I really didn’t want to deal with that.
“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.
See © you (U) next (N) Tuesday (T) - yes, it’s childish.
Mmm, yes, please become the eternal emperor of the free world. 50,000 years and finally we’ve found the Chosen One.
The former president of the United States, what a classy guy.
She should come back on Tuesday
Thank you, I had never heard of it
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.
C U Next Tuesday.
He was calling her a cunt without using the word.
she could have replied “See you in prison” but she probably has more class than that.
A third grader would say this and think they are so cool
I had never heard it before just now either.
Spell out the letters and phonetics: C - U - Next - Tuesday , spells…
C U Next Tuesday
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According to urban dictionary:
See You Next Tuesday
A clandestine method of calling someone a cunt.
Particularly effective when used prior to a three day week end.
C: See U: You N: Next T: Tuesday
I know what C U Next Tuesday means in a derogatory way, but ngl if I really had a meeting scheduled for next week with the person who said it to me, I would just assume that’s what they were referring to.
Yes, in this case the meeting was on Wednesday, but my initial thought would be to wonder if I was misremembering what day the meeting was supposed to take place.
Even if you know about it, it’s not always obvious depending on the context. However, if I have a brief but unpleasant interaction with someone who I had never met before and never planned to see again, said it as I was walking away, then yeah - it would probably register that they were being a dick.
Ohhhhh. Thank you for spelling it out. C U N T. Got it
Stop trying to make quid pro quo happen, Donald!
I hope it was referred to the judge; this exact type of behavior has resulted in findings of contempt and sanctions regularly.
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.
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.
It’s not about money, to him it’s about helping the enemy.
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.
To be honest I have experienced the utter most kindness and hospitality in my life amongst people living in relative material poverty.
It feels wrong to use them as the negative example, as you do here, altough I understand that you are not trying to belittle people living in cow-dung huts. Just hit me as a bit overly imperialistic in it’s tone.
You’re assuming the wrong thing. I’ve literally sat on the floors of cow-dung huts in Kenya and been fed better food than most any food I’ve eaten in America. I’m describing their houses as cow-dung huts because that’s what they lived in, it’s a common dwelling out there.
This man is such a child
“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
That fucking brat needs many spankings.
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
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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. This may be his crowning intellectual achievement.
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?
No no I think he believes that Tuesday is just the naughty day for some reason
Like I didn’t know why 69 was the “sexy number” until I got a girlfriend
Such small dick energy. How can anyone vote for this?
Birds of a feather and all that.
Sure would love that flock to hit one of the wind farms Donnie cries so much about.
He’s such a Cartman.
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.
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.
Those people probably also think Rick Sanchez is the hero.
well, cartman at least has business sense lol
Wait, you’re telling me Trump has no sense of common decency?! Shocking.
That very stable genius energy right there.
lol. I’m glad he suffered a little.
‘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.
Was there any ketchup on those papers?
If there had been he would have mistaken them for fries and eaten them.
