Donald Trump has been barred from personally making a closing argument at his New York civil fraud trial on Thursday because he would not agree to limitations on what he could say, a judge told the former president's lawyer in a new letter. Judge Arthur Engoron told Trump's lawyer Chris Kise on Wednesday that because he had not heard back from Kise agreeing to terms the judge imposed on Trump, Engoron assumed Trump would not comply. Engoron also rejected a bid by Trump to postpone closing arguments by nearly three weeks because Trump's mother-in-law died Tuesday. Engoron's order came after a contentious series of emails between him and Kise over Trump's highly unusual plan to give some of the defense's closing arguments Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Cou