Thread by @Walt_Gekko12

1/Trump now face a defamation lawsuit by the "Central Park Five" against him for his remarks back in 1989:



For those who don't know or were not alive when this happened, in April 1989 a woman was jogging inside of Central Park near the north end as...yahoo.com/news/trump-mus…

2/I remember when a man raped her. Originally, five then-teenagers who became known as the "Central Park Five" were accused of the crime and as I remember were eventually coerced into admitting it. Trump took out full-page ads as I remember in the New York papers wanting them..

3/...executed for the crimes that years later we found out they did not commit. In 2002, another man, Mathias Reyes admitted HE was the man who raped the jogger. Trump has to this day refused to apologize to those he falsely accused at tha time of the original incident.

4/One of them, Yusef Salaam is now a New York City Councilmember. In August 2024, he spoke about his experience:



This is MASSIVE. I remember when this all happened back in April 1989 and may have had an affect on that Mayoral election that fall (though..democracynow.org/2024/8/26/yuse…

5/the main effect was the murder of Yusef Hawkins four months later) where David Dinkins upset Ed Koch in the Democratic primary that September and then defeated Rudy Giuliani in the general election for May in Nov. 1989 (Rudy would win the rematch in 1993 when Staten Island,...

6/the one GOP-heavy borough in NYC was voting to secede from NYC then).

Could this all these years later be what comes back to bite Trump in ways he never could have imagined when he made those remarks in 1989?

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