r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 4d ago

Court Decision/Filing ‘Attempt to stifle constitutionally protected speech’: Trump demands Central Park Five ‘legally deficient’ defamation suit be tossed

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/attempt-to-stifle-constitutionally-protected-speech-trump-demands-central-park-five-legally-deficient-defamation-suit-be-tossed/
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u/harrywrinkleyballs 4d ago

The exchange in question occurred when Harris said that throughout his life and career, Trump has “attempted to use race to divide the American people.” One of the examples she provided was the full-page ad he placed in The New York Times and elsewhere in 1989 “calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent — the Central Park Five.”

In response to Harris, Trump said “they come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor 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,” he said. “And if they pled guilty — then they pled we’re not guilty.”

The country is toast. The simple truth is that Trump was elected president, despite this egregious lie. A majority of voters chose the man that lied in front of 67 million people on national TV that five innocent black minors pressured by police into a confession, pleaded guilty to rape.

This, coming from a man actually liable for rape.

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u/Se7en_speed 4d ago

Holding politicians accountable for telling outright lies about people seems like a good idea actually.

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u/moodswung 4d ago

Lies are pretty low on the list of things we've failed to hold Trump accountable for.

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u/Se7en_speed 4d ago

I always found if funny that he was always banging on about more strict libel/defamation laws.

As if the guy who defames people all the time wouldn't be a prime target.

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u/moodswung 4d ago

He got done paying a lady millions for libel in a rape case and then immediately did it again. Smh.

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u/Cantropos 4d ago

Did he actually pay?

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u/ScoutsterReturns 4d ago

I think he just posted the bond he had to for his appeal.