Judge orders anonymous jury for trial in Donald Trump defamation suit

Donald Trump (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

A US federal judge has cited Donald Trump’s “repeated public statements” among reasons why a jury will be anonymous when it considers damages stemming from a defamation lawsuit by a writer who says the former president sexually abused her in the 1990s.

Judge Lewis A Kaplan issued an order establishing that the jury to be chosen for the January trial in Manhattan will be transported by the US Marshals Service.