“They admitted – they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately,” Trump said. “And if they pled guilty – then they pled we’re not guilty.”The lawsuit also lays out an encounter between Trump and Salaam after the debate. Salaam introduced himself to Trump as attendees asked Trump if he would apologise to the five men for his comments. “Plaintiff Salaam was attempting to politely [have] dialogue with defendant Trump about the false and defamatory statements that defendant Trump had made about plaintiffs less than an hour earlier, but defendant Trump refused to engage with him in dialogue,” the lawsuit says.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 22, 2024 13:58 UTC