Trump Wants to Exclude Campaign Statements From Fraud Trial

Donald Trump doesn’t want to be judged by statements he makes as the Republican presidential nominee, at least not by jurors who are set to decide next month whether he defrauded hundreds of students through his namesake real-estate school.

Trump seeks to exclude evidence about his campaign such as speeches, tweets and statements made at rallies and debates – including comments about the case itself and the judge presiding over the trial in San Diego, Gonzalo Curiel. Curiel’s Mexican heritage earlier prompted Trump to say that negative rulings in the case were retribution for his pledge to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.