Trump confronted by ‘Central Park Five’ member in debate spin room
www.independent.co.uk
Trump was all smiles as he was confronted by the man he called to be executed for a crime he didn’t commit
  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
    168·
    2 months ago

    During the debate, he doubled down on his full page ad calling for the execution of the central park five. Despite everything since then that’s come out strongly showing they were innocent

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
        22·
        2 months ago

        I’ve never a actually read this. This is horrendous and by itself - like so, so many things - should have effectively made him unelligible for office.

        Even if he’d been right about them.

        This also could easily have been written today, and shows an amazing example of what’s wrong with a huge number of people.

        • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Oh I was flabbergasted when I read it too. It’s also funny because it shows his speaking style hasn’t changed that much in 40 years.

          Shows Harris did her damn research though, and fully expected to be on the attack for the race angle. I never even heard about this ad before the debate.

          • ripcord@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 months ago

            This is a very well known thing and has come up in tons of discussions about Trump in the last decade, especially his 2016 presidential run. I just personally had never read the text before.

            Doesn’t mean everyone is aware, but wouldn’t be THAT impressed by Kamala being aware of it.

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
            1·
            2 months ago

            it shows his speaking style hasn’t changed that much in 40 years.

            Does it? My first thought was “who wrote this? Trump definitely doesn’t know some of those words” lol

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    69·
    2 months ago

    It wasn’t clear if Trump immediately understood why Salaam was there, but he grinned and pointed at him, quipping: “That’s good, you’re on my side!”

    Salaam, obviously taken aback, laughed along with some of the reporters around him.

    “No, no, I’m not on your side!” Salaam shot back.

    This senile old fuck has no business being in office again, nor did he the first time.

  • Albbi
    291·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think this was much of a confrontation. He couldn’t hear. The guy behind the camera said “I’m Yusef Salaam” and Trump heard “I’m <unintelligble> side” and thought he said “I’m on your side”. There were so many people trying to get his attention.

    It’s too bad that the poor man can’t get an apology. Could you imagine if Trump actually apologized? It would break everybody’s brains.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    293·
    2 months ago

    “…for a crime they were later they later exonerated of.”

    Is The Independent a reputable news source? On the flip side, it’s clear this wasn’t written by AI!

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months ago

    It wasn’t clear if Trump immediately understood why Salaam was there, but he grinned and pointed at him, quipping: “That’s good, you’re on my side!”

    That ain’t no fucking quip, yo. Goddamn.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    2 months ago

    this is a great article, and somewhat unrelated, do all publications not have built-in grammar checks for their articles?

    “…crime they were later they later exonerated…”

    i keep seeing worse and worse typos, although it’s difficult to call them typos at this point, how does such a clusterfuck happen these days?

    • Odigo2020@lemmy.zipEnglish
      351·
      2 months ago

      There used to be copy editors. Copy editors cost money. Now, there are no copy editors.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        14·
        2 months ago

        That and research/investigative journalism were the first things to get the axe after the major corporations bought most of the media outlets.

        It’s just another money extraction device now

      • 4am@lemm.ee
        5·
        2 months ago

        AI training on itself after training on the collective random grammar mistakes of humans for all of time.

        Yeah, it’ll make the CEOs richer alright.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Generous to assume they replaced the proof guy with ai instead of just firing everyone and letting ai write everything.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      You’ve noticed the bane of my existence. The death of news and journalism has meant an end to good copy editing.