Trump Insists the Exonerated Central Park Five Are Guilty
- Defendants in the notorious case were freed 14 years ago
- The case inflamed NYC racial tension and was a cause celebre
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks on Aug. 5, 2016, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Donald Trump stood by his long-held assertion that five men wrongly jailed for more than a decade were guilty of the 1989 rape of a banker jogging in Central Park, despite their exoneration by DNA evidence, another suspect’s confession and a $40 million city settlement.
“They admitted they were guilty,” the Republican presidential candidate told CNN. “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.”