Maggie Haberman Explains Why Donald Trump Wanted To 'Humiliate' His Own Lawyers

Donald Trump slammed his attorneys — while they were all lined up behind him — at a press conference on Friday.

The former president’s criticism was all about exerting “dominance,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

Trump said he was “disappointed” with his legal team during a press event after a courtroom appeal to overturn a jury’s verdict that found him liable for the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s.

The GOP nominee took no questions from reporters during what became a lengthy rant about Carroll and another woman who has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Trump.

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“It’s a way to show dominance,” Haberman said of Trump’s criticism of his own lawyers. “It’s a way to say what he wants knowing they’re not going to say anything back to