Trump asks judge to dismiss Central Park Five defamation lawsuit

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: msn/Raw Story

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President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion to try to toss out the lawsuit against him by the exonerated "Central Park Five" — the group of five Black and Latino men who were initially convicted of a brutal rape in New York City in the late 1980s but later cleared as innocent.

The defamation suit was filed in October, after Trump — who initially responded to the case by taking out a massive pro-death penalty ad in the papers — doubled down on claiming it was reasonable to infer their guilt during the presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

"A lot of people including Mayor Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five," said Trump in the debate, despite the fact that Ed Koch was the mayor at the time, not Michael Bloomberg. "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."

In the filing to get the case thrown out, Trump and his legal team insist that he was not saying they were guilty when he made these remarks.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-asks-judge-to-dismiss-central-park-five-defamation-lawsuit/ar-AA1vH4qB

[3Hotdogs]

1. After reading it a couple of times, I think he is right.

[marybourg]

2. You're a brave soul.

[Dlpger61]

3. The Person was not killed

The person did not die.

[thesquanderer]

5. One of the problems is, we all know that Trump's brain frequently confuses things.

Even in this very piece, they mention he referred to Bloomberg when the mayor at the time was Koch. He is very loose with "facts" and mixes things up so much, that can be hard to be sure when he's intentionally lying vs. when he's just confused and doesn't know what he's talking about. You can hold him liable for defamation if he's lying, but it's tougher to hold him to that if he was merely confused, since intent matters. The Central Park 5 incident was 1989. There was also an infamous "Central Park Killer" incident in 1986, and actually I would not be surprised if he conflated the two.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. What he did back then

had a parallel -



The problem is that after they were acquitted, he continued to defame them.