Perspective: Presidential outrage over a false tweet? Trump’s race-baiting did far more harm to the Central Park Five.
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist May 30 at 6:00 AM There are inconsequential social media screw-ups.The other day, an errant tweet — its author later said it was meant as satire — threw the president into a familiar-sounding uproar.
But Trump has yet to apologize for his own words and actions that — over decades — have been immeasurably more damaging. Coerced by police, the five Harlem boys confessed to the vicious attack and rape of a young Yale-educated investment banker, a white woman, who had been jogging in Central Park. She was in a coma for 12 days afterward.
One of the teens should be “hanged in Central Park,” Buchanan said, while the other boys should be “stripped, horsewhipped and sent to prison.”
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