The Central Park 5, a black group that confessed to violently raping a White woman in 1989, beating her with a metal pipe, crushing her left eye, putting her in a coma for 2 weeks, are now suing President Donald Trump for mean words.
They claim it’s defamation.
It involves the ABC debate when President Trump mentioned that they admitted to the crime.
Though they later backtracked and pleaded innocent.
With this lawsuit, some say they just want a paycheck.
But dragging this case back into the public’s eye could very well boomerang on them.
Members of the “Central Park 5” Sue Trump For Defamation, Seek Monetary Damages https://t.co/sIo23WzZ3v pic.twitter.com/nDPWJ7jHhf
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 21, 2024
The Gateway Pundit reports:
Members of the “Central Park 5” filed a defamation suit against Trump on Monday over his statements during ABC’s debate last month.
In case you don’t know the story behind the Central Park 5, Ann Coulter published an amazing piece on the brutal criminal attack in 2014.
During the ABC debate, Trump responded to Kamala Harris’s comment on his decades-old New York Times ad on the Central Park 5.
“[T]hey come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five. 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.”
Trisha Meili. Say her name pic.twitter.com/mFSe45ymI3
— Ryan (@AmericaFirstRy) October 21, 2024
The Central Park 5 should have never been exonerated.
Believe all victims, unless it's a white woman brutally attacked by a gang of black youth.
And a serial rapist taking sole responsibility is utterly nonsensical given the brutal injuries Trisha Meili sustained.
Meili and… https://t.co/ROIiHy36Kn pic.twitter.com/fuog8qaxXr
— Lucky (@TheMagaHulk) August 23, 2024
ABC News adds:
Members of the “Central Park Five” filed a defamation suit against former President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of spreading “false, misleading and defamatory” statements about their 1989 case during the Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate, according to a new court filing.
Attorneys representing the five men — Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise — filed their civil suit against Trump in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking monetary damages over his statements, which they say have caused them “severe emotional distress and reputational damage.”
The five men, then teenagers, were accused of the violent rape of a female jogger in Central Park in April 1989. The five, who always maintained their innocence, were convicted and served years in prison. A decade after the attack, a different man confessed to the crime, which was confirmed through DNA analysis.
During the debate, Trump was responding to a statement from Vice President Kamala Harris in which she revisited his full-page ad in The New York Times in the wake of the incident that called for the execution of the Central Park Five when he said the following: “[T]hey come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five. 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.”
The Central Park 5 defendants DID confess to the crime. Later, they retracted the confession.
Trump was correct. pic.twitter.com/AC4hfVFJU1
— Sloan Rachmuth (@SloanRachmuth) October 21, 2024
Just a reminder that the Central Park 5 confessed. During the videotaped confessions, they described their roles in the attack. Now they are suing Trump for defamation. These people are money hungry. pic.twitter.com/8S0KoYPlWj
— Chad (@Not_ADemocracy) October 21, 2024
Some people are having a hard time with this.
Luckily, there’s receipts to back up President Trump’s claim.
The Central Park 5 all CONFESSED to raping the jogger.
There are hours of videos you can watch on Youtube. pic.twitter.com/ZqfeZXsqqD
— Evil English Extras 😇 (@TheDjSlurry) October 21, 2024
The recordings of their confession was gathered and put on a site for research purposes.
That site also breaks down the video for those that don’t want to watch them all.
I’m sure they confessed just for the fun of it, right?
Was there an agenda behind the scenes to paint them as innocent victims?
Here’s the 11 videos of their statements:
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