Attorney Robbie Kaplan said Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed out during a deposition at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after he learned 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 The Bulwark’s “George Conway Explains it All (To Sarah Longwell)” podcast this week that she rejected the former president’s request that they work through a lunch break.
“I said, ‘Sir, I just have one more topic I want to cover, and then we’ll break for lunch, if that’s OK with you.’ And he looked at me, and he said, ‘Well, why do we have to break for lunch? Let’s just go straight through. This is a waste of my time.’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m sorry. I would do that, but we have a court reporter, we have a videographer — they’re entitled to a lunch break. We have to break for lunch,’” Kaplan recalled.
“And then you could kind of see the wheel spinning in his brain,” Kaplan continued. “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?’ And so I said to him, ‘Well, I raised this question with your attorneys yesterday, sir, and they graciously offered to provide us with lunch.’ 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.”
“Because he was mad you were going to eat lunch?” co-host Sarah Longwell asked incredulously.
“Because they’d offered us a free lunch at Mar-a-Lago, yeah,” Kaplan replied.
