Discussing Burns’ film
The Central Park Five — about five black teens who were wrongly convicted of assaulting a white woman in New York City — Burns recalled how Trump reacted at the time.
“He shamefully took out a full-page ad in all of the New York dailies asking for a restoration of the death penalty for two 14-year-old, two 15-year-old, and one 16-year-old innocent children,” Burns explained. “While New York State laws would not have permitted their execution, just the fact that there was a rush to judgment ought to be complete evidence of how temperamentally unsuited he is for the office he now seeks.”
After
interviewer Marlow Stern noted that the teens were later exonerated and received a $41 million settlement from the city — which Trump criticized — Burns explained it was all about race.
“Of course it was [racially motivated]. I found no outrage at the ‘preppie killer,'” Burns said.