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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.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not about money, to him it's about helping the enemy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That and he didn't get his way to not have a lunch break. He thought he had the power to say no since they were at Mar a lago and they wouldn't have option for a lunch if he said so, then got angry when he lost on that little decision. That's the temperament of the GOP forerunner, can't even be overruled on a lunch decision without being set off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

His main issue was that other people did not revere him as a god and consider everybody who is not 100% loyal to him their mortal enemy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Nah he was pissed because he had to share his stockpile of McChickens and McDoubles. He wanted to eat them all himself!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I can just imagine his mountainous horde of hamberders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

He also gets big mad because he struggles to remember where he wrote the combination (it’s 1-2-3, beeteedubs) to the safe where he keeps them

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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.