Reply #18: Whoah! This thread just made me remember something about Trump.

[Chorophyll]

Some of you may remember the "Central Park Jogger" case from the late 80s. A white woman was beaten and raped while running through the northern edge of Central Park. Police rounded up a large group of African American youths and coerced confessions out of them. Turned out, years later, that the rapist was someone else entirely. BUT, at the height of the media circus, the Donald took out full-page ads in NY newspapers calling for reinstatement of the death penalty... well, here's a link, you'll get the idea:

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2002-10-28/news/18202607_1_jogger-case-matias-reyes-reyes-confession

Always an arrogant prick, and yes, a racist.

On edit: not a great link, but the five young men's convictions were overturned, over a decade after the fact.