Donald Trump will not be allowed to personally make a closing argument at his New York civil fraud trial on Thursday, a judge said in a new letter.
Judge Arthur Engoron told Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise in a letter Wednesday that because he had not heard back from Kise agreeing to terms the judge imposed on Trump for such an argument, Engoron assumed Trump would not comply with those conditions.
Closing arguments in the case are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.