Donald Trump indicated this week that he still believes the five teenage boys exonerated after being convicted in the brutal 1989 assault of a Central Park jogger are guilty. At the time, Trump took out full-page ads in the New York newspapers calling to "bring back the death penalty" and said the "murderers" should "suffer." But the boys said their confession was coerced, and in 2002, another man, serial rapist Matias Reyes confessed to the assault. "They admitted they were guilty," Trump said in a statement to CNN's Miguel Marquez. One of the men, Raymond Santana, dismissed Trump's statement at the time as a "pathetic" attempt to seek publicity.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 07, 2016 17:14 UTC