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So let me see if I get this straight (Original Post) malaise Sep 2016 OP
Don the Con wanted the Central Park Five to be executed malaise Sep 2016 #1
yep ... napkinz Sep 2016 #3
Thanks for these sis malaise Sep 2016 #7
King Con is perfect! Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #2
He's the best con, the biggest con...a fabulous con! malaise Sep 2016 #5
he will do or say anything, anytime....the truth be damned. spanone Sep 2016 #4
Hi there malaise Sep 2016 #6
Oh My - Don King malaise Sep 2016 #8

malaise

(269,055 posts)
1. Don the Con wanted the Central Park Five to be executed
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 09:49 AM
Sep 2016

Turns out they were innocent
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york
<snip>
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.


“He was the fire starter,” Salaam said of Trump, in his first extended interview since Trump announced his run for the White House. “Common citizens were being manipulated and swayed into believing that we were guilty.”


DO not be fooled by KING CON - the racist King of Cons!!!

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
2. King Con is perfect!
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:06 AM
Sep 2016

He's the best con, the biggest con...a fabulous con!

Can't believe such a con is the Republican nominee for president in 2016. My mom and dad are laughing their Democrat heads off in heaven.

malaise

(269,055 posts)
8. Oh My - Don King
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 11:09 AM
Sep 2016

and King Don - Negroes, Negroes and King Con now turns the full 180 about the shooting of African-Americans.

I give up.

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