Trump Seeks Dismissal Of Central Park Five Suit, Claims First Amendment Right To Falsely Call Them Murderers

Reuters reports:

Trump on Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements during his campaign about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park.

Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing that his statements about the men, known widely as the Central Park Five, were legally protected expressions of opinion. Attorneys for Trump said the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment “protects the President-elect’s speech about matters of public concern.”

The Central Park Five were cleared in 2002 based on new DNA evidence and another person’s confession. Trump falsely said at a Sept. 10 presidential debate with Democrat Kamala Harris that they had killed a person and pleaded guilty.

Read the full article. Nobody was killed and nobody pleaded guilty but Hair Furor says he has a First Amendment right to lie that both things happened. Note the photo chosen by Newsmax.