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The first time Trump went to campaign in Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Palmer’s hometown – in September 2020, he is said to have recounted a story of admiring the legendary golfer’s naked body to his team before traveling to the city.

Ariana Baio has the story.

Alicja Hagopian reports on the latest numbers as the campaigns enter their final two weeks.

The Central Park Five, who now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump over his remarks during last month’s presidential debate.

During the September 10 showdown between Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said that the five men — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — pleaded guilty when they were tried in connection with the assault and rape of a woman who had been running in Central Park on April 19, 1989, and that the victim died.

The former president said during the debate: “They admitted — they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. And if they pled guilty — then they pled we’re not guilty.”

Each of them men pleaded not guilty during their trials, and the victim did not die.

In the complaint, they said that Trump’s statements are ‘demonstrably false,” adding, “Plaintiffs never pled guilty to any crime and were subsequently cleared of all wrongdoing. Further, the victims of the Central Park assaults were not killed.”

The complaint argues the men have “suffered injuries as a result of Defendant Trump’s false and defamatory statements.”

At the time of the attack and the trial, the five were teenagers and maintained their innocence throughout and during their time in jail. Trump inserted himself into the narrative by taking out large newspaper ads calling for the return of the death penalty.

In 2002, they were exonerated after DNA evidence linked a serial rapist to the attack. They received a legal settlement from New York City of $41m.

Donald Trump bizarrely impersonated a duck during his town hall in Pennsylvania on Sunday, not long after boasting that he had “aced” two cognitive tests.

During the event, Trump touted his own mental acuity and insisted that, at 78, he is “not close” to 80 years old.

James Liddell reports on the latest worrying behavior by the former president.