Lawrence: Judge schools Trump lawyer on ‘Evidence 101’

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump skips the third day of the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral. Also, House Republicans pass two anti-abortion bills. And Uvalde families demand accountability after the Justice Department’s report. Barbara McQuade, Glenn Kirschner, Rep. Katie Porter, and TX State Sen. Roland Gutierrez join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, federal judge, Louis Kaplan, reached the point of exasperation with Donald Trump's lawyer today
0:06.5	when the lawyer was trying to ask a question that any real trial lawyer knows how to ask.
0:13.0	But it got to the point where the judge said to Trump attorney
0:17.5	Alina Haba, it's evidence 101.
0:21.0	Alina Haba maintained her frontrunner status as most incompetent Trump trial lawyer to appear in
0:28.2	court so far again today.
0:30.6	In the case of E. Jean Carroll versus Donald Trump, because there's a civil case in which E.
0:35.0	E. E. Carel is seeking massive financial damages from Donald Trump.
0:39.0	There are a lot of financial questions to ask by the lawyers on both sides.
0:44.8	Donald Trump's lawyers have a right to ask E.
0:47.1	Gene Carroll about her income and her finances, but Alina Haba did not know how to do it.
0:54.8	Question, you generate a good amount of income from that, correct?
0:58.8	The judge.
0:59.8	Look, questions like this, it's
1:05.0	it's evidence one-o-one. It's evidence 101.
1:08.0	Question, Ms. Carroll, how much do you make?
1:11.0	Ms. Kaplan, objection, your honor,
1:13.3	and that has been asked and answered.
1:15.8	The answer that E. Jean Carroll gave to that question yesterday
1:19.5	was $70,000. Trump attorney Habba continued with this question.
1:25.9	How many subscribers do you have on your sub-stack?
1:29.1	The judge.
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