So wrote Donald Trump back in the late 80s about a notorious rape in Central Park. The arrested youths were clearly deserving of as painful and awful a punishment as could be devised.
Except that DNA evidence later exonerated them.
Except that the Donald doesn't believe in DNA evidence. The Donald knows who's guilty, and who should be punished. Or, even if they are innocent, who should be punished so as to provide an object lesson for others.
The King's Justice is sometimes swift, but always unpleasant.
Donald Trump and the Central Park Five – The Atlantic
The Republican nominee continues to insist that five men exonerated in a notorious case were guilty.