“I would love that,” Donald Trump responded after Judge Lewis Kaplan threatened to throw him out of the courtroom for disrupting his defamation trial Wednesday.
Indeed, E.’s lawyer. Jean Carroll’s Shawn Crowley said Trump could be heard commenting during testimony, saying things like, “It’s a witch hunt” and “it’s really a scam,” CNN reports.
“Mr. Trump has a right to be here. This right can be revoked and it can be revoked if it is disruptive, which is what has been reported to me. If he does not comply with the court orders, Mr. Trump, I hope I will not have to consider excluding you from the trial,” Judge Kaplan then retorted, to which the former American president raised his hands in the air in response.
“I understand you’re probably anxious for me to do this,” the judge said.
“I would love that,” said Donald Trump.
The former American president, currently on trial for defamation against the author E. Jean Carroll who also accused him of sexual assault in 1990, is currently the subject of at least six civil and criminal trials.
In her testimony, the author said: “I’m here because I was attacked by Donald Trump and when I wrote about it he said it never happened. He lied and he destroyed my reputation.”
