deckardB26354
Virgin
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2011
- Posts
- 1,386
Oh darn.
Central Park 5 sue Trump for defamation over debate comments
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4944619-central-park-five-sue-trump-defamation/The exonerated Central Park Five sued former President Trump for defamation Monday over his comments at the recent presidential debate about the group’s wrongful convictions for rape and assault.
During a segment on race and politics at the Sept. 10 debate against Vice President Harris, Trump said “they admitted — they said, they pled guilty.”
“And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty — then they pled we’re not guilty,” Trump continued.
The five Black and Hispanic teenagers were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape and assault of a woman jogging in Central Park. They spent years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2002, once the true culprit confessed and was corroborated by DNA evidence.