NEW: Trump insists people are on 'both sides' of exonerated Central Park 5 case
President Donald Trump continued his refusal to apologize for his 1989 call to execute five teenagers who were falsely accused of rape in the notorious Central Park Five case.
Trump then referred to Linda Fairstein, a prosecutor on the case who published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal last week standing by the prosecution. Holy shit -- years after DNA evidence exonerated them, Trump suggests the Central Park 5 are guilty and refuses to apologize for saying they should be executed.— Aaron Rupar June 18, 2019 Trump took out full-page ads in New York City newspapers in 1989 calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in New York following the arrest of five teens ― four of whom were black and one Hispanic ― in connection with the rape of a white jogger in Central Park.
Trump paid $85,000 for the ads, which said the boys “should be forced to suffer, and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.”“It’s more than anger,” Trump told reporters at the time. “It’s hatred, and I want society to hate ’em.”
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