At the presidential debate on September 10, Donald Trump made a false statement when he said that the 1989 attack victim had died and that the men had entered guilty pleas.
Donald Trump’s comments at last month’s presidential debate have prompted the five men who were once known as the Central Park Five and now go by the name Exonerated Five to sue him for slander.
Trump claimed that the five men—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise—pleaded guilty when they were tried in relation to the assault and rape of a woman who was running in Central Park on April 19, 1989. The lawsuit centers on the debate that took place in Pennsylvania on September 10. He 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.”
Donald Trump’s problem with Central Park 5
Both had entered not guilty pleas at the time of the trials, and the attack victim lived. Trump’s claims are “demonstrably false,” according to the complaint, which also stated that the plaintiffs were later exonerated of all wrongdoing and never entered a guilty plea. Additionally, none of the Central Park assault victims were murdered. In addition, the complaint stated that the males, who are currently in their 50s, “suffered injuries as a result of Defendant Trump’s false and defamatory statements.”
Throughout their trials and imprisonment, the five, who were minors at the time of their indictment, insisted they were innocent. During their trial, they were accused of assaulting the female jogger and committing additional robberies and attacks in Central Park.
