Donald Trump has been accused of making false claims during a subsequent presidential debate by The Exonerated Five, previously known as the Central Park Five, in a libel lawsuit filed against him.
The lawsuit seeks to keep Trump responsible for the harm his repeated false accusations have caused, according to an Associated Press report.
Trump made the remarks during his September conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris in which he fraudulently claimed that the five gentlemen had killed one and entered a guilty plea. The legal action is filed in a Philadelphia federal prosecutor.
Plaintiff Trump fabricated allegations that claimants killed a person and pleaded guilty to the crime. These claims are obviously false”, the team wrote in their complaint.
The Exonerated Five—Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, and Antron McCray—were unfairly convicted in 1989 for the rape and assault of a guy in Central Park. Following the discovery of fresh DNA proof and a statement from a different person in 2002, their views were overturned. Trump’s most recent remarks during the conversation had rekindled old scars for the men, who have worked hard for years to resurrect their lives after their unfair imprisonment.
During the nationally televised conversation, Trump stated,” They admitted, they said they pled guilty … if they pled guilty, they seriously hurt a person, killed a man ultimately”. In truth, no one was killed in the attack, and it eventually became clear that the men’s revelations had been forced.
The lawsuit seeks both compensatory and punitive damages, arguing that Trump’s statements were made aggressively, with a total disregard for the truth. Shanin Specter, the attorney representing the party, emphasized the damage caused by Trump’s notes, noting that” Trump largely defamed them in front of 67 million citizens”. Additionally, Specter made it clear that the men were merely seeking fairness in court, and that there was no political motivation behind the complaint.
Trump’s director, Steven Cheung, dismissed the complaint as politically driven, labeling it” just another silly, election meddling lawsuit, filed by eager left-wing protesters”. Trump’s plan has not yet responded in writing to the lawsuit.
Trump and the class have long been at odds with one another regarding the Central Park Five situation. In response to the murder, Trump issued a full-page ad in a number of New York newspapers in 1989, urging the restoration of the death sentence. Despite their conviction, Trump has persistently refused to rescind his comments or offer an apology. In 2019, he reaffirmed his opinion that” they admitted their sadness” even after DNA evidence proved their ignorance.
The people, who are now known as the Exonerated Five, have been outspoken reviewers of Trump, with Yusef Salaam just joining the New York City Council.
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Exonerated Central Park Five file defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump
File photo: The Central Park Five ( Picture credit: AP )
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