Members of the “Central Park 5” filed a defamation go well with in opposition to Trump on Monday over his statements throughout ABC’s debate final month.
In case you don’t know the story behind the Central Park 5, Ann Coulter published an amazing piece on the brutal felony assault in 2014.
Through the ABC debate, Trump responded to Kamala Harris’s touch upon his decades-old New York Instances advert on the Central Park 5.
“[T]hey give you issues like what she simply stated going again many, a few years when lots of people together with Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park 5. They admitted — they stated, they pled responsible. And I stated, properly, in the event that they pled responsible they badly harm an individual, killed an individual in the end. And in the event that they pled responsible — then they pled we’re not responsible.”
WATCH:
WOW! The Central Park 5 have simply sued Trump for his remarks beneath on the September tenth debate the place he said that they had pleaded responsible to a criminal offense.
“Plaintiffs demand judgment in opposition to Defendant Donald J. Trump for compensatory damages, for punitive damages and for prices, in an… pic.twitter.com/ENGc05WPZd
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 21, 2024
Excerpt from ABC News:
Members of the “Central Park 5” filed a defamation go well with in opposition to former President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of spreading “false, deceptive and defamatory” statements about their 1989 case throughout the Sept. 10 ABC Information presidential debate, in response to a brand new courtroom submitting.
Attorneys representing the 5 males — Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Smart — filed their civil go well with in opposition to Trump in federal courtroom within the Japanese District of Pennsylvania, in search of financial damages over his statements, which they are saying have prompted them “extreme emotional misery and reputational injury.”
The 5 males, then youngsters, had been accused of the violent rape of a feminine jogger in Central Park in April 1989. The 5, who at all times maintained their innocence, had been convicted and served years in jail. A decade after the assault, a unique man confessed to the crime, which was confirmed by DNA evaluation.
The lawsuit factors out that Trump’s statements had been false in a number of respects — noting not one of the members of the Central Park 5 ever entered responsible pleas within the case, not one of the victims of the Central Park assaults had been killed, and the mayor on the time of the assaults was Ed Koch — who didn’t agree with Trump’s place within the full-page advert.
“Defendant Trump’s conduct on the September 10 debate was excessive and outrageous, and it was meant to trigger extreme emotional misery to Plaintiffs,” the lawsuit said.
The Trump marketing campaign instructed ABC Information, “That is simply one other frivolous, Election Interference lawsuit, filed by determined left-wing activists.”
‘Central Park 5’ members sue Donald Trump, accuse him of defamation over debate feedback https://t.co/JdfAjuesDT https://t.co/KUFjNH65Hd pic.twitter.com/yHi2uWzhxi
— Eyewitness Information (@ABC7NY) October 21, 2024
