Trump faces yet another defamation lawsuit as Central Park Five allege decades of ‘extreme and outrageous conduct’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Let’s remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five,” Harris said during the debate. “Took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.” Members of the exonerated Central Park Five — now suing Donald Trump for defamation — appeared at the Democratic National Convention in August In response, Trump said “they come up with things like what she just said going back many, many years when a lot of people including Mayor Bloomberg agreed with me on the Central Park Five.” Bloomberg was not mayor at the time. “Plaintiffs suffered harm, including severe emotional distress and reputational damage, as a direct result of Defendant Trump’s false and defamatory statements at the September 10 debate, as well as his continuing pattern of extreme and outrageous conduct,” according to the lawsuit from the exonerated Central Park Five. New York City councilmember Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated members of the so-called Central Park Five, is the lead plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.