Former President Donald Trump is truly a national treasure.
Trump, hot off a big, big win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, got into a rather heated exchange with U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday during the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, once again displaying the alpha male characteristics that not only led him to one term in the White House but the head of a movement to recapture America and restore her to her former glory. He’s a fighter who stands up for his values and beliefs. Trump doesn’t take crap from anyone. And that’s why his fan base is so loyal. He has become their proxy against a government that hates them.
Check out the details from the Daily Wire:
Trump was in the courtroom in Manhattan for the second straight day as a jury weighs how much he will have to pay Carroll after he was found liable last year of sexually abusing and defaming the magazine columnist, The New York Post reported. The former president was scolded by the judge after Carroll’s lawyer accused him of talking loudly about Carroll.
“Mr. Trump has a right to be present here but that right can be forfeited if he is disruptive … or disregards our orders,” said Kaplan, according to the Post.
Then Carroll’s lawyers told the judge that Trump had said, within earshot of the jurors, “It is a witch hunt. It really is a con job.”
“Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to —” the judge began to reprimand Trump again.
Trump is reported to have retorted, “I would love it. I would love it,” while tossing his hands up in the air.
“I understand that you are probably very eager for me to do that,” Kaplan said to Trump. “I know you would like that, because you just can’t control yourself in this circumstance, apparently.”
“You can’t either,” Trump said back to the judge.
The former president got on Truth Social on Tuesday where he shared a post saying he believes that Kaplan has “absolute hatred” for him.
“The only right, honest, and lawful thing that Clinton-appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has so far been unable to see clearly because of his absolute hatred of Donald J. Trump (ME!), can do is to end this unAmerican injustice being done to a President of the United States, who was wrongfully accused by a woman he never met, saw, or touched (a photo line does not count!), and knows absolutely nothing about,” Trump wrote in the post.
Trump’s legal team asked the judge if the trial could be delayed so the former president could go to his mother Amalija Knavs’ funeral on Thursday. Kaplan denied the request, and then also denied granting an adjournment on Thursday so Trump could make it to the funeral. Kaplan reportedly said Trump did not have to be present for the entire trial and could testify on a different day.
Carroll is seeking $10 million in damages on top of the $5 million that a jury ordered Trump to pay last spring. In an article published in 2019, Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a department store changing room in 1996. Trump denied the sexual assault allegation, and then the magazine columnist sued him for defamation. Trump, the leading candidate in the Republican presidential primary, has maintained that he never met Carroll and called her allegations “fake.”
When you look at the vast majority of politicians in the modern history of our country, there aren’t any with a personality like Trump. They all played the game, kept their true thoughts and feelings close to the vest, not allowing people to see who they really are. But then corruption oozed deeper and deeper within the government because no one was confronting it, allowing it to grow and fester.
It’s a full blown infection now and the only way to get rid of it is to use some peroxide. That’s Trump.
He’s the exact opposite of former presidents. He speaks his mind, wears his heart on his sleeve. He’s not ashamed of who he is, nor is he afraid to strike back at his critics. The country just doesn’t know what to do with that kind of guy.
And that’s why he did so well as the president.