By: Bitethehand

Bitethehand
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:09:37 +0000

“Kelly’s central claims aren’t exactly compelling, either. Trump is far from a blameless saint, of course”.

Indeed: From Mary L Trump’s book ‘Too Much and Never Enough’, Ch. 14 ‘A Civil Servant in Public Housing’, pp. 197-198.

“The full-page screed he (Donald Trump) paid to publish in the New York Times in 1989 calling for the Central Park Five* to be put to death wasn’t about his deep concern for the rule of law; it was an easy opportunity for him to take on a deeply serious topic that was very important to the city while sounding like an authority in the influential and prestigious pages of the Gray Lady. (The New York Times) It was unvarnished racism meant to stir up racial animosity in a city already seething with it.
All five boys… 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 fact.”

* Also known as The Central Park jogger case – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case