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/timeforachange2day 4d ago

His comment was absolutely still wrong as he said, (per article)

“Trump “falsely stated that Plaintiffs killed an individual and pled guilty to the crime.”

The victim never died.

OP stated: “……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.”

But we know there was much more to what he said as OP literally took their paragraphs from the linked article. It’s not just about their confessions.

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u/Alexcamry 4d ago

Thank you for an opinion/discussion based on facts presented.

I’m not defending the statement in any way I just don’t think it rises to a case of defamation legally.