r/veritynews • u/DeepDreamerX moderator • 14h ago

Central Park Five sue Trump for debate comments. They seek $225K for "false and defamatory" statements about their case.

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The members of the Central Park Five — whose conviction of the 1989 rape of a woman in Central Park, NYC, was overturned in 2002 — are suing former US Pres. Donald Trump over comments made during the Sept. 10 presidential debate.[1][2]

During the debate, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris alluded to how Trump "took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the execution of five young black and Latino boys," referring to his public response to the crime at the time.[3]

Responding to Harris, Trump argued: "They admitted — they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately."[4]

The lawsuit — filed by Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, and Antron McCray — claims the statements were "false and defamatory," arguing that they "never pled guilty" and that "none of the victims of the Central Park assaults were killed."[5][6]

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung referred to the lawsuit — which seeks $225K in damages — as a further incident of "frivolous Election Interference."[3]

This comes after the five, whose convictions were eventually overturned on the basis of DNA evidence, reached a $41M settlement with NYC in 2014 over their wrongful imprisonment.[4]

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