Judge rejects Trump’s request for a special instruction to jurors at civil rape trial
NEW YORK — If the Secret Service can protect Donald Trump at a New Hampshire campaign rally, it can keep him safe during his civil rape case, a Manhattan federal court judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Lewis Kaplan declined the former president’s request Thursday for a special instruction to jurors should he choose to sit out his Manhattan civil rape trial.
Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina argued his…