Trump refuses to apologize for Central Park 5 death ad

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(06-19-2019, 12:24 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Two things:
I realize how the following could be used to "defend" Trump, but I'd like to think I'd speak up for anyone receiving similar press/ social media responses.

I know no more about this story than what I have read here so I maybe be missing a more direct connection between Trump and the accused.

What I see is a citizen of NY posting an oped in a Newspaper, in which, he purchased space. I see he opined about violent crime in general in his city and acknowledged it affects all races/creeds.

The oped appeared 2 weeks after the Central park attack in question and doesn't refer to it specifically. I would be willing to go out on a limb and guess there was other violent crime in NYC in those 2 weeks and perhaps maybe, just maybe the accused of those instances did indeed commit those crimes.

So in short what should he apologize for IRT the oped?

I suggest you do a deeper reading into Trump and his "thoughts" on the Central park Five.  Start here...or here...but find your own sources.

It is easy to skim over his involvement if one doesn't want to do the research.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-live-updates-trailguide-years-after-the-central-park-five-1475859898-htmlstory.html?track=lat_social_sf__twitter_________latimes

Quote:...the boys said their confession was coerced, and in 2002, another man, serial rapist Matias Reyes confessed to the assault. His DNA matched evidence from the crime scene.


Trump told CNN this week he wasn't buying it.


"They admitted they were guilty," Trump said in a statement to CNN's Miguel Marquez. "The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."


The five had all been convicted on various charges and spent between six and 13 years in prison. In 2014, a federal judge approved a $41 million settlement for their wrongful conviction.



Trump quickly called the settlement a "disgrace."

That was 2016.

DJT was/is wrong about his attacks on those men (then boys) but will not admit it.

Fluff off the ad and try to pretend it wasn't about this case and you still have decades of DJT saying he still thinks they are guilty despite all evidence to the contrary.

Edit to add: If anyone isn't old enough to know about this case and Trump's statements that would be the reason to research it. I've said (repeatedly) I didn't like DJT long before he started to pretend he wanted in politics. Anyone following pop culture or the news knew how he was even back then. That people VOTED for him and claim to NOT KNOW (or NOT CARE) how he behaves is a sad statement on the electorate. Especially when they "couldn't" vote for Clinton because of all they "knew" about her.