'It's hatred': A history of Trump's attacks on the wrongfully convicted 'Central Park Five'
It was 1989 and Donald Trump — “not widely known outside New York,” where he was a real estate developer and Art of the Deal author — had something he wanted to say.
The Selma director adapted the case into a five-part scripted series for Netflix, When They See Us, which premiered Friday. “Muggers and murderers,” according to Trump, “should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.”In that ad was an echo of the politically divisive but successful rhetoric Trump would campaign on in 2016, when he dismissed the need for decorum and described America as a nation wracked by the “carnage” of lawlessness and weakened authority.
Director DuVernay, who re-told the boys’ story for Netflix, told PEOPLE that Trump’s behavior was “unconscionable.” Eventually the exonerated five, now all adults, won a settlement from NY.C. for about $40 million, per the Times.
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