Donald Trump suddenly leaves courtroom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "Trump took the stand on Thursday, delivering brief testimony during which he said he made the statements about Carroll "to defend myself, my family and frankly the presidency."
41% : "Whether the rules that apply to everyone else -- to you, to me, to Ms. Carroll -- whether they also apply to Donald Trump.
40% : "The jury is tasked only with determining how much Trump should pay Carroll.
34% : The judge ordered the comment to be stricken from the record because it wasn't responsive to the question being posed to Trump.
32% : Those are the rules," Roberta Kaplan told the court, adding that Trump didn't respect the earlier verdict, "Not even for 24 hours.
30% : They are not being asked to confirm the earlier verdict or judge the claims from Trump or Carroll.
28% : Trump did not attend last year's trial and backed out of testifying.
27% : While columnist E. Jean Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, was making her closing arguments in the civil case, Trump got up from his seat up front and left the room entirely, prompting Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is not related to Carroll's lawyer, to ask the court reporter to make a note of his departure.
27% : It is unclear why Trump left the room.
20% : Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in compensatory damages for injury to her reputation, in addition to an unspecified amount in punitive damages to punish Trump and deter him from continuing to do so.
19% : Prior to his exit, Carroll's lawyer was criticizing Trump over his failure to respect the jury verdict from last spring that ruled he was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a department store dressing room sometime in the 1990s.

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