“His comments made prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security clearly do not reflect the values of DHS and the administration."
***Actually his comments do reflect administration values.***
Donald Trump Says Central Park Five Are Guilty, Despite DNA Evidence
by BENJY SARLIN
Wading into a racially-charged case from his past, Donald Trump indicated that the “Central Park Five” were guilty, despite being officially exonerated by DNA evidence decades after a notorious 1989 rape case.
“They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said to CNN in a statement.
“The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same.”
The five men were convicted as teenagers after implicating each other under intense questioning over a brutal sexual assault on a jogger that dominated the tabloids. Defenders said they were coerced into confessing and all five were later cleared by DNA evidence and a separate confession in 2002 from another criminal who took credit for the assault.
New York paid them $41 million in a settlement in 2014 over their ordeal.
Trump took out a full-page ad at the time of the crime calling for New York to reinstate the death penalty in response.
The case was notable for its racial politics: Four of the Central Park Five were black and one was Latino while the victim was a white banker.
Only the best people, every time. The Federal government is being turned into a snake pit.
I was just about to post a similar, “actually they do.” I’m just surprised he wasn’t offered an immediate promotion.
In a way that has nothing to do with Russian interference: we’re grappling with the self-exposure of neo Nazis, unqualified and incompetent idiots and racist scumbags.
What a time to be alive!
Guess who appointed this guy? I won’t tell you his initials but his name is John Kelly, the famous adult in the room. Remember how pleasant it was when anyone in public life had enough damn sense not to say this stuff out loud? I really do hate starting every day feeling disgusted with my own damn country but anyway have a nice Friday, folks. Fuck.
In charge of interfaith programs.
You are so right.
Everyday I wonder how can we as a country survive the next few years. It is soul numbingly exhausting.
People still resign over racist remarks? How quaint. I thought that went out with Earl Butz.
Wow. Really? “White people came here while black people were held in slavery and did a better job climbing the social ladder, so it really shows how bad black people are at self-improvement”??? REALLY?
#REALLY???
Remember: “Christian” has become a code word among them for really only referring to white people.