Central Park Five Is Suing Donald Trump For Slander Over Remarks He Made During The Harris Debate.

(VOR News) – On Monday, five men who were wrongfully incarcerated as minors filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump in the Central Park Five Jogger rape case.

They allege that the Republican presidential candidate defamed them by falsely asserting their involvement in the rape and a guilty plea.

The lawsuit, which was submitted to a federal court in Philadelphia, references numerous statements that Donald Trump made about the individuals during his debate with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on September 10.

Harris criticized Donald Trump for airing a 1989 ad supporting juvenile executions.

Defendant Donald Trump made a false claim during the debate that the Plaintiffs had committed homicide and had confessed to the crime. The civil complaint alleges that “These statements are categorically false.”

The plaintiffs were never convicted of any offenses and were subsequently exonerated of all accusations. Additionally, the complaint asserted that the individuals who were assaulted in Central Park were able to survive.

Trump’s behavior toward the men at the debate “constituted a continuing tort” according to the lawsuit, as it “was part of a persistent pattern of extreme and outrageous behavior spanning several years.” Together referred to as “the Exonerated Five,” the litigants in the action are Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown, and Korey Wise. Salaam is a council member from New York City.

Their lawsuit seeks damages exceeding $75,000, with the aggregate of compensatory and punitive damages to be determined during the trial. The accusations encompass intentional infliction of emotional distress, false light, and defamation.

In a statement released by the Donald Trump campaign, spokesman Steven Cheung asserted that “this lawsuit is merely another frivolous instance of election interference, initiated by desperate leftist activists to divert the American public’s attention from Kamala Harris’ perilously liberal agenda and unsuccessful campaign.”

Cheung thinks American President Donald Trump would triumph historically on November 5.

He also argued that Kamala Harris’ associates’ futile legal maneuvers to interfere in the election are ineffective.

The lawsuit asserts that the individuals were convicted as adolescents for a series of assaults that took place in Central Park, New York City, in April 1989. The individuals, who were 14 to 16, were convicted and sentenced to years of incarceration.

The lawsuit alleges that Trump financed a full-page advertisement in New York newspapers that referenced the assaults in Central Park without explicitly naming the suspects.

The advertisement urged the City of New York to “… [send a message unequivocally to those who would kill our citizens and instill fear in New York—REINSTATE THE DEATH PENALTY AND RESTORE OUR POLICE,” shortly after a sexual assault on a jogger in the park for which the teenagers were charged.

The allegation of sexual assault on the jogger was dismissed by recent DNA evidence in 2002, which cleared all five men. One year later, the men sought legal action against New York City, alleging a conspiracy motivated by racial animus, malevolent prosecution, and wrongful arrest. The city agreed to a settlement of $41 million for the men more than a decade after the lawsuit was filed.

In an editorial published that year, Donald Trump referred to the agreement as a “disgrace.”

Harris pointed out during the September presidential debate, “Let us recall that this is the same individual [Trump] who published a full-page advertisement in The New York Times advocating for the execution of five innocent young Black and Latino boys, known as the Central Park Five.”

Harris, as per the lawsuit, “took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.”

Donald Trump responded to Harris by stating, “They confessed, they pleaded guilty; they acknowledged it.” I added, “If they acknowledged culpability, they ultimately caused a fatality and severely harmed another individual.” The president stated, “If they plead guilty, then they assert their innocence.”

Trump was previously found legally culpable for defaming Carroll in two distinct proceedings following E. Jean Carroll’s public allegation that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room during the mid-1990s.

Jurors awarded Carroll $88.3 million in damages during his trials in those cases, which included compensation for the writer’s sexual abuse. Donald Trump is contesting the verdicts in the cases that were filed in federal court in Manhattan.

SOURCE: CNBC

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