Trump’s legal team is gearing up to appeal the incredulous $83.3 million jury verdict on E.Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former president Donald Trump.
According to an article by the New York Post, one of the bases of their appeal cites a “conflict of interest” which the Manhattan federal judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan deliberately hid.
Trump’s lead attorney Alina Habba says that the the defense team was previously unaware of the relations between the judge who presided over the case and Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer and sworn nemesis, who both worked together at Paul Weiss Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison law firm in the early 1990s.
But alas, nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
Habba argued that neither the judge nor Roberta had revealed their professional history.
“It was never disclosed. It’s insane and so incestuous.”
She further asserts that failure to disclose such information could be a violation of ethics.
According to the information obtained by Trump’s team, Roberta worked during the same time as Judge Kaplan, who served as a partner in the firm.
Journalist Charles Gasparino broke this story in his column for The Post, which followed a tip informing him that Judge Kaplan had mentored Roberta.
A former Paul Weiss associate, who requested to be anonymous, “Roberta did her best to distinguish herself before partners, including Lewis Kaplan.”
The former associate added, “Lew was like her mentor.”
This information was “news” to Habba and her team. She said, “We are going to include this in our appeal and take appropriate measures.”
On Friday, the nine-person jury ordered Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll over his remarks about her while he was serving as president in response to her rape accusations, despite lacking of substance.
Trump earlier responded to these accusations on Truth Social and said, “If immunity is not granted to a president, every president that leaves office will be immediately indicted by the opposing party. Without complete immunity, a president of the United States would not be able to properly function!”
In addition to this, the former president had firmly denied the rape allegations and his so-called association with her. Even the jury agreed that Trump did not rape her.
Carroll, who is prosecuting the GOP leader, has delivered some incoherent remarks, including the date, month, season, or year the “rape” happened. Moreover, the dress she said she wore when the so-called sexual assault occurred wasn’t even produced at that time.
The Trump-obsessed writer also wrote a controversial post about Trump on Facebook in 2012, a few years before she recalled that she was “raped” by Trump.
Just Wow!!!
what she said about having sex with trump ,sounds like she is saying ,you cant rape a willing person ,