The ‘Central Park Five’ Are Suing Donald Trump for Defamation

At the presidential debate on September 10, Donald Trump made a false statement when he said that the 1989 attack victim had died and that the men had entered guilty pleas.Donald Trump’s comments at last month’s presidential debate have prompted the five men who were once known as the Central Park Five and now go by the name Exonerated Five to sue him for slander. Trump claimed that the five men—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise—pleaded guilty when they were tried in relation to the assault and rape of a woman who was running in Central Park on April 19, 1989. The lawsuit centers on the debate that took place in Pennsylvania on September 10. He said : “They admitted — they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty — then they pled we’re not guilty.”