But he also interacted with the non-US stars, including South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen and Englishman Lee Westwood. Trump even signed a flag for Henrik Stenson’s caddie, Gareth Lord. In Trump’s absence from the event Saturday, his daughter Ivanka and son Eric stepped up. Following the trial verdict, Habba filed a letter with the court alleging Kaplan had an improper bias in the case, citing a New York Post report on his previous work at the same firm as Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation) that claimed he mentored the lawyer—which legal experts said wouldn’t constitute a conflict of interest that would require him to recuse.
