'Did he respect the jury verdict? No.' Trump storms out of courtroom as Carroll lawyer speaks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "I'd ask you to think about what Donald Trump wants you to do," she told the jurors.
39% : From 11pm Thursday into Friday afternoon, Trump made 17 posts or shares to his social media site, Truth Social, totaling nearly 750 words, decrying the Carroll case, and attacking her account and the judge.
33% : Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll's lawyer, made a note for the record that Trump had left.
33% : Several of those were presented to the jury, including one that read, "stick a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger and send yourself to HELL."'No one, not even a former president, is above the law'Roberta Kaplan painted Trump as a man flouting the rules everyone else has to live by.
33% : "Those dollar figures -- high as they are -- paled in comparison to what the attorney suggested Trump should actually have to pay, because they didn't include punitive damages.
32% : Trump, looking displeased, started speaking to Madaio on his left and then Habba on his right.
29% : attorney Roberta Kaplan asked the jury now slated to decide whether Trump will pay for defaming Carroll.
29% : Based on that verdict, Judge Kaplan ruled that Trump could not deny he assaulted Carroll in the current case.
28% : "How much will it take to make him stop?"'She was looking to make a splash'Trump managed to clash with the judge on that issue during just a few minutes on the witness stand on Thursday, as he tried to barrel through restrictions on his testimony.
25% : More: 'I don't know who the woman is,' Donald Trump erupts at E. Jean Carroll defamation trialTrump was found liable for sexually abusing Carroll after a separate civil trial last May and was ordered to pay her about $2 million for that abuse, plus about $3 million more for defaming her in 2022, when he called her allegation a "con job."
24% : Roberta Kaplan continued, detailing why she believes the jury should force Trump to pay tens of millions of dollars in compensation for harming Carroll, plus more to make him stop defaming her.
23% : And Trump was gone.
22% : Those extra damages are appropriate because Trump has continued to maliciously attack Carroll, and he needs to be deterred, she argued.
21% : Trump returned before his own lawyer, Alina Habba, began her closing argument.
21% : Lawyers for Carroll and Trump are battling for the jury's favor over whether the former president will have to pay a heavy price for defaming Carroll when, as president, he denied her allegations.
21% : The jury in Kaplan's Manhattan courtroom has now been asked to determine whether Trump should have to pay Carroll damages and, if so, how much.
18% : It was a jarring scene, with the former president -- who has continued to attack Carroll as a liar -- forced to listen as her attorney pointed out that a jury in a civil case had already found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
17% : Trump said that "people should pay dearly for such false accusations."
16% : More: Conflict with New York defamation case forces Donald Trump to cancel swing state fundraiserRoberta Kaplan also argued that Carroll was owed at least $12 million to compensate her for pain and suffering, "and probably much more.
15% : More: In E. Jean Carroll case, expert says Trump could owe $12M (or much more) for defamationHabba argued in her closing that Carroll's team had failed to prove it was Trump's denials, rather than Carroll's accusation, that unleashed the wave of attacks she got from his supporters.
15% : Ultimately, Habba suggested the defamation case wasn't really about Trump.
13% : It seemed like Donald Trump was going to be stuck sitting in silence while E. Jean Carroll's lawyer repeated again and again that he'd sexually assaulted the advice columnist and then lied about it.
10% : More: Judge threatens to boot Trump from courtIn subsequent argument to rebut Habba's closing, Carroll lawyer Shawn Crowley said Trump's team was engaged in an old tactic: blaming the victim.
5% : The current trial focuses on the lengthy denials Trump made in June 2019 after Carroll first went public with allegations that Trump had assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

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