The lawsuit was in response to Donald Trump's comments at the Sept. 10 presidential debate, where he incorrectly said the men pleaded guilty and the victim in the 1989 attack had died.

The lawsuit focuses on the Sept. 10 debate in Pennsylvania, where Trump said that the five men — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — pleaded guilty when they were tried in connection with the assault and rape of a woman who had been running in Central Park on April 19, 1989, and that the victim had died.

During the debate 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.”

At the time of the trials, each had pleaded not guilty and the victim of the attack survived.

  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Don’t worry, I’m sure one of his drooling supporters will be along shortly to tell us “what he really meant”.