10-08-2016, 02:34 AM
Last I heard, Trump was still insisting that the African Americans love him and he's going to win the black vote.
If he ever really believed that claim, he's delusional. And his statements this week will probably dwindle his small percentage of the black vote even further.
Snip:
More than a decade after the exoneration of all five men wrongly convicted as teenagers in New York City’s most infamous rape case, one resident of the city still refuses to accept their innocence. Yep, Donald J. Trump.
“They admitted they were guilty,” said Donald Trump this week on CNN. In 2002, the convictions of the five known as the “Central Park Five” were overturned after an imprisoned serial rapist, Matias Reyes, confessed to the 1989 rape and beating of a New York City woman. DNA linked Reyes to the rape, while none of the the five - who were aged 14 to 16 at the time of the crime - were connected through DNA. The exonerated men had long claimed they were coerced as teenagers to confess, after being denied food and sleep for dozens of hours.
In the days after the rape, Trump took out full-page ads in four New York papers calling for a return to the death penalty, and has continued to defend the original investigation of the case years after the convictions were overturned.
Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump...re-guilty/
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The city settled wrongful conviction cases with the black and Hispanic men to the tune of $41 million, but Trump continues to claim he was right, despite all evidence to the contrary.
If he ever really believed that claim, he's delusional. And his statements this week will probably dwindle his small percentage of the black vote even further.
Snip:
More than a decade after the exoneration of all five men wrongly convicted as teenagers in New York City’s most infamous rape case, one resident of the city still refuses to accept their innocence. Yep, Donald J. Trump.
“They admitted they were guilty,” said Donald Trump this week on CNN. In 2002, the convictions of the five known as the “Central Park Five” were overturned after an imprisoned serial rapist, Matias Reyes, confessed to the 1989 rape and beating of a New York City woman. DNA linked Reyes to the rape, while none of the the five - who were aged 14 to 16 at the time of the crime - were connected through DNA. The exonerated men had long claimed they were coerced as teenagers to confess, after being denied food and sleep for dozens of hours.
In the days after the rape, Trump took out full-page ads in four New York papers calling for a return to the death penalty, and has continued to defend the original investigation of the case years after the convictions were overturned.
Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump...re-guilty/
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The city settled wrongful conviction cases with the black and Hispanic men to the tune of $41 million, but Trump continues to claim he was right, despite all evidence to the contrary.