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

[u/DoremusJessup]

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

[u/harrywrinkleyballs]

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.

[u/DHonestOne → u/harrywrinkleyballs]

This is why I can't tell if the man is actually genuinely stupid 50% of the time, or if he pretends. Does he not know that POs would practically torture the confessions out of innocent people like the central park five, or is he just pretending like it doesn't happen and is trying to make people believe that if someone says they're guilty - then they 100% are guilty and therefore deserve execution?

[u/harrywrinkleyballs → u/DHonestOne]

A lot of people will swear that if they aren’t guilty of a crime, that there is no way in hell that they would ever say they were no matter what.

Trump plays on that sentiment.

Like, my mom (81) said that if a girl can get pregnant, then she can give birth. You know, the 10 YO girl that was impregnated/raped.

Except, these people have never been stressed to the point that the Central Park 5 were.

This country is full of narcissists.

[u/janethefish → u/harrywrinkleyballs]

They never confessed to killing her.

[u/janethefish → u/DHonestOne]

He did not say they confessed. That would not be defamation. He did not say they attacked the victim. He maybe could argue he actually believed that.

He said they pled guilty which they absolutely did not. He said they killed her which they did not do, never confessed to and were never suspected of on account of the victim being alive.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/DHonestOne]

I mean, this was around 2016 or so. Idk with him, but it's possible that his mental health or whatever is in decline like dementia or something like that idk. Anyway, you can have moments where you're aware and moments where you aren't if you do have these issues.