On Tuesday, White House correspondent April Ryan asked Trump if he was finally ready to apologize to the so-called “Central Park Five,” given that they were exonerated after he called for their execution. Here is the president’s response.
Why would you bring that question up now? It’s an interesting time to bring it up. You have people on both sides of that. They admitted their guilt. If you look at Linda Fairstein, and if you look at some of prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case. So we’ll leave it at that.
He didn’t just refuse to apologize, he pointed to the teenage boys’ coerced confessions and held up the Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor who handled the case. Repeating his response to neo-Nazis marching violently in Charlottesville in 2017, he claims that there are two sides to the Central Park case.
The incident in question happened 30 years ago and the facts demonstrate that one side has been completely exonerated while the other has been disgraced. The boys Trump wanted to see executed were not only proven to be innocent of the rape and assault charges by a confession from the actual perpetrator combined with DNA evidence, they won a $41 milli