If you’ve been following this at all the big story this week was that Judge Arthur Engoron had given former President Donald Trump permission to make the closing arguments in his fraud trial and then changed his mind. Actually, what happened was that Engoron set limits on what Trump would be allowed to say and at that point Trump decided he wouldn’t speak.
Mr. Trump, who considers himself his own best spokesman, had planned to address the court during closing arguments on Thursday. But one of his lawyers called limits imposed by the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, unacceptable.
The judge said in a recent email exchange with Mr. Trump’s lawyers that while he was predisposed to allow Mr. Trump to speak, the former president, like any lawyer, would be limited to discussing the facts of the case and the relevant law, and barred from attacking the judge, the judge’s staff members or…
