I saw Yusef Salaam (Central Park 5, new NY City Council member) interviewed on The View this morning. He was asked about the NYT full page ad and other ads that Trump took out calling for bringing back the death penalty directed at the CP5 who were 15 and 16 at the time. Trump still defends the ads even though the CP5 were fully exonerated. In 2019, when asked by a reporter about the ads, Trump asked, “Why do you bring that question up now? It’s an interesting time to bring it up. You have people on both sides of that. They admitted their guilt*.” Notice the same "both sides of that" defense. Sound familiar?
Salaam pointed out that, despite being minors, all the CP5 names telephone numbers and addresses were printed in the papers. He said, "What that ad was, and still is, was a whisper into the most sadistic, darkest enclaves of society to do to us what they had done to Emmet Till." Not much different than Trump's J6 calls to his MAGA faithful after his election loss:
"Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild."
"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
Trump is such an insecure narcissist that he can't admit he's wrong about anything, ever. Regardless, he still has the support of millions of Americans who think he's fit to be the most powerful person in the world when he's actually one of the weakest and most pathetic.
*Those confessions were recanted and proved to be coerced through threats, lies, and physical force with no lawyer or parent present.
