Trump Loses Bid to End 'Central Park Five' Defamation Lawsuit

Thursday, April 10, 2025

A federal judge denied President Donald Trump's request to dismiss a lawsuit over comments he made last year about five men who were wrongly convicted ...

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JUST IN: Trump must face defamation lawsuit from 'Central Park Five' defendants reut.rs/4j3QVm5

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-- Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com) April 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM

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Trump must face defamation lawsuit from Central Park Five defendants
www.reuters.com

... Judge says men presented enough evidence to pursue case. At issue are Trump's remarks during a 2024 debate. Damages sought for reputational and emotional harm.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-10 06:23 PM

One of many reasons Trump will burn in hell

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-10 06:33 PM

#2: Trumpf will get his acolytes in the GOP to pay for his lawyers. If you look carefully enough, you will see where the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) should end up-- right in the center of Dante's Inferno: i.pinimg.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-10 06:39 PM

The demented orange racist's goons will doxx the judge's kids.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-10 06:53 PM

More from the article in #1 ...

... The men were cleared in 2002 based on new DNA evidence and another person's confession.
Trump falsely said during a September 10 presidential debate with Democrat Kamala Harris that the men had killed someone and pleaded guilty, the plaintiffs said in their October lawsuit. Attorneys for the men said they gave false confessions that they later recanted. They never pleaded guilty.

The lawsuit said Trump's "demonstrably false" statements cast the plaintiffs in "a harmful false light."
In seeking dismissal of the lawsuit, Trump's lawyers said in a court filing in December that his statements about the men were legally protected expressions of opinion under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

Beetlestone said Trump's statement at issue "must be construed as one of fact, not opinion," because it can "objectively determined" to be false that the men pleaded guilty or killed someone.

Trump has drawn criticism before over his statements about the Central Park Five. After a 28-year-old woman was attacked in the incident, Trump spoke out about the case and took out a full-page advertisement in several New York newspapers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty. ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-10 07:31 PM

@#5 ... Trump falsely said during a September 10 presidential debate with Democrat Kamala Harris that the men had killed someone and pleaded guilty, the plaintiffs said in their October lawsuit. ...

So, yet another example of Pres Trump's running the mouth before the brain is in gear?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-10 07:32 PM

Of course, with all of the weekend golf, Der Dotard can not reasonably argue he is too busy to answer the charges, so he can play along with the suit ...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-10 08:39 PM

#6
His brain came with a gear?

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-11 10:22 AM

His brain came with a gear?

#8 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

One gear.

Reverse.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-11 01:06 PM

Lock him up! Lock him up!

#10 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-04-11 06:17 PM

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