Too Much and Never Enough: on Crime

OpEd: Central Park 5 innocent by DNA, but still "guilty"

[In the 2016 campaign], he did tap into a certain bigotry and inchoate rage, which he's always been good at doing. The full-page screed he paid to publish in the New York Times back in 1989 calling for The Central Park Five to be put to death wasn't about his deep concern for rule of law; it was an easy opportunity for him to take a deeply concerned topic that was deeply important to the city, while sounding like an authority. It was unvarnished racism meant to stir up racial animosity in a city already seething with it. All five boys (Kevin Richardson, Anton McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam, were subsequently cleared, proven innocent via incontrovertible DNA evidence. To this day however, Donald insists that they were guilty--yet another example of his inability to drop a preferred narrative even when it's contradicted by established facts. Source: Too Much and Never Enough, by Mary Trump, p.204 Jul 14, 2020

The above quotations are from Too Much and Never Enough How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D. Click here for definitions & background information on Crime. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Donald Trump on Crime.
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