In 1989, Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in the New York Times urging the execution of the Central Park Five, five teens wrongfully accused of raping and assaulting a woman in the city’s landmark park.
More than 30 years later, on the day of Trump’s historic arraignment on a 34-count indictment, Dr. Yusef Salaam, one of the exonerated men from that case, makes a mock ad addressing the real estate mogul’s current case.
The headline copy mirrors that of the then-real estate mogul, but instead of calling for the “death penalty” and heavier policing, his ad called for “justice and fairness” for his beloved Harlem.
The New York City Council hopeful tweeted news about his ad around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, the night the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office formally presented the charges against the 45th president of the United States.
Trump, the first president to be indicted, is charged with several Class E felonies, including falsifying business records in an effort to possibly evade New York tax laws. He is also accused of falsifying business documents to hide a series of state and federal election crimes. Of these crimes is an instance where one of his associates paid adult entertainer Stormy Daniels not to speak publicly about her illicit affair with Trump in 2006 during his presidential campaign.
The prosecution alleges it has proof that Trump reimbursed his associate the monies used on the bribe in $35,000 increments by check — thus breaking the law.
Salaam, who was incarcerated and spent 13 years with the label of a rapist before being exonerated, headline in bold capital letters read, “BRING BACK JUSTICE &…
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