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This Tweet was sent after NYC settled in June 2014. 12 years after the Central Park 5 were exonerated & convictions vacated. In Oct. 2016, one month before he was elected, he still claimed they were guilty. This spiteful man is president. #WhentheySeeUs
Here is Trump calling the Central Park Five “Wilding Thugs” while sharing the insanely racist NY Post *Editorial Board* criticizing NYC for “lavish[ing] taxpayer funds on a group of thugs” after their $40 million settlement in 2014. #WhenTheySeeUs
11 years after the exonerations of the Central Park Five, here’s the current president of the United States responding to some random Twitter account with “Innocent of what-how many people did they mugg?” #WhenTheySeeUs
11 years after the exonerations of the Central Park Five, Trump was rage tweeting at 3:27am at a random account challenging him about his racist rush to judgment: “Yea, ask me about the muggers!” #WhenTheySeeUs
After the Bill Moyers documentary on the Central Park Five aired in 2013, 11 years after their exonerations, Trump raged that the film “didn't explain the horrific crimes of these....” wholly innocent teenagers who he helped wrongfully convict?
Here’s a (badly written) Op-Ed Trump wrote after NYC settled w/ the Central Park 5. “Settling doesn't mean innocence. Speak to the detectives on the case & try listening to the facts. These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.” #WhenTheySeeUS nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
