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From the Mid-Hudson Valley Perspective Archive

MEDIA WRONGLY CLAIM TRUMP AD PUSHED TO EXECUTE ‘INNOCENT CHILDREN’

Commentary by Brad Wilmouth

Since Donald Trump began his run for President in June 2015, parts of the dominant liberal media have repeatedly parroted the incorrect claim that, in 1989, Trump ran a newspaper ad in which he urged the execution of a group of young black and Hispanic teens who ended up eventually being proven “innocent” in spite of confessing to the infamous rape and beating of a Central Park jogger that year.

(Posted Monday, September 18, 2017 )   <Read it>

--NewsBusters.org--

Editorial Comment

After reading the ad, I’m not so sure that Trump didn’t at least strongly imply that the kids should be executed. - BK