In Trump’s Bitter, Yearslong Brawl with Roberta Kaplan, He Keeps Losing
When they faced off at E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial, it was a clash of two New Yorkers, both formidable combatants and talkers, but products of different worlds.
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The meeting turned ugly fast.
In October 2022, Roberta Kaplan flew to Donald Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, to question him under oath in the defamation lawsuit that her client, the writer E. Jean Carroll, had filed against him after she accused him of sexually assaulting her.