Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
x-Post from GD: "Donald Trump calls Central Park 5 settlement 'A Disagrace'"
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/21/donald-trump-central-park-5_n_5517784.html
The five black and Latino men, who were then teens, were convicted in 1989 of raping a 28-year-old woman in Central Park. But DNA evidence and a confession by a serial rapist later cleared Antron McCray, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Yusuf Salaa and Raymond Santana in 2002, after the five had spent as long as 13 years in prison.
In an op-ed published in the New York Daily News on Saturday, Trump calls the settlement a "disgrace."
My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it’s a disgrace. A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it “the heist of the century.”
Settling doesn’t mean innocence, but it indicates incompetence on several levels. This case has not been dormant, and many people have asked why it took so long to settle? It is politics at its lowest and worst form.
In an op-ed published in the New York Daily News on Saturday, Trump calls the settlement a "disgrace."
My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it’s a disgrace. A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it “the heist of the century.”
Settling doesn’t mean innocence, but it indicates incompetence on several levels. This case has not been dormant, and many people have asked why it took so long to settle? It is politics at its lowest and worst form.
6 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
Donald Trump does something naughty and pulls a dodge, deflect, defer. My questions for him:
WHAT is that thing running around on your head?
WHAT didjado in the margins?
Because he has done something. This is how he operates. As an aside - I was shocked to learn he was only a year or two older than my mom.
That's what being mean does to you though. It shows all over.
