Trump Sued for Defamation by Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ (2)

Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during the September presidential debate about five men who were wrongly convicted in the 1989 jogger rape case and came to be known as the “Central Park Five.”

The men, who were teenagers when they were arrested, said in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Philadelphia that Trump defamed them by saying during the debate that they had pleaded guilty when they hadn’t. Trump also made erroneous comments during the debate suggesting someone had been killed during the 1989 incident.

The case comes as Trump enters the ...