Exclusive: Central Park Five Members Blast Trump for Insisting They're Guilty "
Exclusive: Central Park Five Members Blast Trump for Insisting They're Guilty
"He believes in everything he's put out there—the racial vision he's created."
Brandon Ellington PattersonOct. 7, 2016 5:40 PM
After Donald Trump reaffirmed his long-held belief this week that the men known as the Central Park Five were guilty in an infamous, decades-old rape case, two members of the since-exonerated group blasted Trump in interviews with Mother Jones, calling him a "stunt artist" and saying "he's gotten worse" since his involvement in their 1990 conviction.
"You have a person who's supposed to be a very intelligent business man, and what I'm sure he would do if he was trying to purchase a property is do his due diligence," Yusef Salaam told me Friday, noting that Trump continued to ignore the facts of the Central Park Five case. "For somebody to still stand on the side of injustice like Donald Trump is, that becomes a very scary place to be."
In a statement to CNN this week, Trump said he still believed the Central Park Five were guilty. "They admitted they were guilty," he told CNN's Miguel Marquez. "The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."
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"He believes in everything he's put out there—the racial vision he's created."
Brandon Ellington PattersonOct. 7, 2016 5:40 PM
After Donald Trump reaffirmed his long-held belief this week that the men known as the Central Park Five were guilty in an infamous, decades-old rape case, two members of the since-exonerated group blasted Trump in interviews with Mother Jones, calling him a "stunt artist" and saying "he's gotten worse" since his involvement in their 1990 conviction.
"You have a person who's supposed to be a very intelligent business man, and what I'm sure he would do if he was trying to purchase a property is do his due diligence," Yusef Salaam told me Friday, noting that Trump continued to ignore the facts of the Central Park Five case. "For somebody to still stand on the side of injustice like Donald Trump is, that becomes a very scary place to be."
In a statement to CNN this week, Trump said he still believed the Central Park Five were guilty. "They admitted they were guilty," he told CNN's Miguel Marquez. "The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."
READ MORE: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/1...
This man don't care about the FACTS in this case, all he wants is blood and he don't want to be proven wrong in his call.