Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked a federal judge to exclude any statements made by or about the Republican nominee in the presidential campaign from his upcoming civil trial over now-defunct Trump University, court records show. The request filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego would apply to Trump’s tweets, a video of Trump making sexually predatory comments about women, his tax history, revelations about his private charitable foundation and public criticisms about the judge in the case.
Trump’s lead attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said the evidence would be irrelevant to the civil fraud case and may prejudice or inflame a jury, jeopardizing rights to a fair trial. He warned that allowing the jury to consider Trump’s own remarks “carries an immediate and irreparable danger of extreme and irremediable prejudice to defendants, confusion of issues and waste of time.”
