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The Central Park Five, who now name themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a defamation lawsuit towards Donald Trump over his remarks throughout final month’s presidential debate.

During the September 10 showdown between Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump mentioned that the 5 males — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — pleaded responsible once they had been tried in reference to the assault and rape of a girl who had been operating in Central Park on April 19, 1989, and that the sufferer died.

The former president mentioned throughout the debate: “They admitted — they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty — then they pled we’re not guilty.”

Each of them males pleaded not responsible throughout their trials, and the sufferer didn’t die.

In the grievance, they mentioned that Trump’s statements are ‘demonstrably false,” adding, “Plaintiffs never pled guilty to any crime and were subsequently cleared of all wrongdoing. Further, the victims of the Central Park assaults were not killed.”

The complaint argues the men have “suffered injuries as a result of Defendant Trump’s false and defamatory statements.”

At the time of the assault and the trial, the 5 had been youngsters and maintained their innocence all through and through their time in jail. Trump inserted himself into the narrative by taking out massive newspaper adverts calling for the return of the loss of life penalty.

In 2002, they had been exonerated after DNA proof linked a serial rapist to the assault. They acquired a authorized settlement from New York City of $41m.

Donald Trump bizarrely impersonated a duck during his town hall in Pennsylvania on Sunday, not long after boasting that he had “aced” two cognitive tests.

During the event, Trump touted his own mental acuity and insisted that, at 78, he is “not close” to 80 years old.

James Liddell reports on the latest worrying behavior by the former president.

Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on CBS over the interview with Kamala Harris on flagship show 60 Minutes.

Here’s what the previous president wrote on Truth Social this morning:

When will CBS launch their Transcript of the fraudulent Interview with Comrade Kamala Harris? They modified her reply with a view to make Kamala look clever, moderately than “dumb as a rock.” This stands out as the Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History! CBS MUST GET THE TRANSCRIPT OUT NOW — Litigation has already began. Harris wasn’t capable of put two sentences collectively, in order that they utterly eliminated her reply, and put in one other one. The Public has a proper to know what was modified to save lots of this TOTALLY UNFIT Presidential Candidate from our Country’s Voters. SHE IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

CBS responded to Trump’s assaults in an announcement on Sunday. Here’s James Liddell’s report: