The president was asked today if he'd apologize over the 1989 case that has made headlines since Netflix's When They See Us premiered on May 31. Trump took out a full-page ad in four newspapers in 1989 calling for the suspects to be executed. “Why do you bring that question up now? It’s an interesting time to bring it up,” responded Trump. (It's unclear if he's even aware of Ava DuVernay's miniseries.) “You have people on both sides of that," Trump added. "They admitted their guilt. If you look at Linda Fairstein and if you look at some of the prosecutors, they think the city should have never settled that case. So, we’ll leave it at that.”
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