'Central Park Five' Accuse Trump of Defamation Over Presidential Debate Remarks

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46% : Counsel has yet to enter an appearance for Trump.
43% : The suit, Salaam v. Trump, was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of the plaintiffs, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise, who are also known as the "Exonerated Five," after they were wrongfully convicted in a series of assaults nearly 35 years ago.
25% : Further, the victims of the Central Park assaults were not killed," the complaint said, claiming Trump has previously made false public statements about the Central Park assaults, and the recent incident is "part of a continuing pattern of extreme and outrageous conducted directed at plaintiffs.
24% : The complaint maintains that the topic of the Central Park Five was raised at the debate after Vice President Kamala Harris said that Trump "took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five."Trump responded with, "'They come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five.
20% : The complaint alleges that Trump made false statements about the five men during the Sept. 10 presidential debate, which was hosted in Philadelphia.
19% : However, Trump is accused of falsely stating that the plaintiffs killed an individual and pleaded guilty to the crime.
16% : The complaint also alleges that the statements qualify as defamation per se because the assaults involved rape, and therefore Trump ascribed "serious sexual misconduct" to the plaintiffs.

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