When We Say Donald Trump and Death Penalty, Let's Remember Exactly Who He Is...

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From 2016......an insight into the racist Donald Trump.

Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue

In 1989 five young black men were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging in New York City. Leading the charge against them was a real estate mogul whose divisive rhetoric can be found in his presidential campaign today.

Yusef Salaam was 15 years old when Donald Trump demanded his execution for a crime he did not commit.

Nearly three decades before the rambunctious billionaire began his run for president – before he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, for the expulsion of all undocumented migrants, before he branded Mexicans as “rapists” and was accused of mocking the disabled – Trump called for the reinstatement of the death penalty in New York following a horrific rape case in which five teenagers were wrongly convicted.

The miscarriage of justice is widely remembered as a definitive moment in New York’s fractured race relations. But Trump’s intervention – he signed full-page newspaper advertisements implicitly calling for the boys to die – has been gradually overlooked as the businessman’s chances of winning the Republican nomination have rapidly increased. Now those involved in the case of the so-called Central Park Five and its aftermath say Trump’s rhetoric served as an unlikely precursor to a unique brand of divisive populism that has powered his rise to political prominence in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue

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Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue

In 1989 five young black men were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging in New York City. Leading the charge against them was a real estate mogul whose divisive rhetoric can be found in his presidential campaign today

Oliver Laughland in New York
@oliverlaughland
Wed 17 Feb 2016 13.15 EST Last modified on Thu 9 Aug 2018 16.35 EDT

Yusef Salaam was 15 years old when Donald Trump demanded his execution for a crime he did not commit.
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Link to tweet

[magicarpet]

2. This man is so toxic and poison.

[kirby]

3. Not really the same thing though...

Wouldn't you agree there is a difference between apprehending someone during a murderous shooting and rounding up some suspects after the fact and coercing confessions or trying them with only circumstantial evidence?

Depending on ones view of the death penalty, I think there is a big difference between these two cases.

[harumph]

4. Yes - the cases are different

However I think the Op is getting to the lack of credibility of Trump to inveigh on the
subject. It's not like Trump gives one shit - it was just something for him to say to
sound sympathetic (b/c that's the calculation of a sociopath - gee I better show people
that I'm outraged "death penalty!!!" - YEAH... THAT'S THE TICKET!

[kirby]

6. I think we all agree...

Trump not have credibility on anything he speaks about. In fact, typically whatever he says, the opposite it true.

[BSdetect]

5. But he pardons actual thugs like that shitty sheriff....