Another view ...

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 ... 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?