Jury begins deliberating after Trump storms out of court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : The record will reflect that Donald Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom.
38% : "The only question for the jury to decide was how much in damages Trump should pay.
30% : Not even for 24 hours," the lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said, referring to a trial last year in which a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and defaming her in 2022.
28% : Roberta Kaplan told the nine jurors they should award at least $24 million in compensatory damages, but didn't pinpoint a figure for punitive damages, reminding jurors that Trump claims to be a billionaire.
27% : After Trump stood up from the defense table and walked to the door, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan interrupted Roberta Kaplan, who isn't related to the judge.
25% : Prior to the start of the trial, the judge ruled that Trump defamed Carroll by saying in 2019 that he had never met her and that her book, in which she accused him of having raped her decades earlier, "should be sold in the fiction section.
25% : "But the judge stopped Habba, telling the jury repeatedly that "it is established" by law that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll and that his statements were, in fact, defamatory.
22% : Habba attempted multiple times to suggest Trump had properly defended himself by lashing out at Carroll.
21% : "With that sort of extreme wealth, it will take an unusually high punitive damages award to have any hope of stopping Donald Trump," she said.
21% : "Trump returned to the courtroom to hear his own lawyer, Alina Habba, deliver her closing arguments, in which she suggested Carroll welcomed the attention she received after going public with her accusations.
20% : NEW YORK -- A jury hearing evidence in Donald Trump's defamation trial began deliberations Friday after closing arguments during which Trump stormed out of the courtroom.
20% : The current trial concerns comments that Trump made about Carroll in 2019, while he was president, after she publicly accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room.
20% : "While Donald Trump may not care about the law and he certainly doesn't care about the truth," Roberta Kaplan said, "he does care about money.
16% : Trump's exit came moments after a lawyer for plaintiff E. Jean Carroll told the jury that Trump had disregarded the results of an earlier trial against Carroll.
9% : Habba also said Carroll's own claims about Trump -- and not Trump's comments in response -- were the reason Carroll received threatening messages on social media.

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