Should 606 Context of hate and misjudgment pay up $1.8 billion?
Here’s a quick rant/opinion for May 2026. Even though there’s so much going on in the world, like the U.S., along with Israel, which is still at war with Iran, high gas prices, etc. But here’s another add-on to the list of controversies from President Donald Trump. And before I continue, I just hate the fact that every week it’s always something he says or does that makes a story. Quite frankly, I’m sure people are making careers of this dysfunctional administration. But anyway, I guess he decided to wake up one day and thought of the idea of rewarding the so-called Patriots who stormed, looted, trashed, and trespassed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, with $1.8 billion. The audacity of him to not only pardon a little over 1500 people who participated in the insurrection, but now wants to use this slush fund to grant them $1.8 billion for claiming them as victims of injustice. And despite the pardoning from their King, some still manage to get in trouble with the law afterward. Example: Andrew Paul Johnson, who was just sentenced to life in 2026 for sexually abusing children. Well, I let that marinate.
I say all that just to say, what about the people who were actually innocent of a crime they were accused of? So many stories and examples of injustice cases in America. Here’s one that people like to sweep under the rug; well, at least the urban community across the country didn’t forget: the infamous Central Park 5. April 19, 1989, Trisha Meili, who is known as the “Cental park Jogger,” was viciously attacked and raped. Five young boys: Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, and Antron McCray, who were all under the age of 18 and still minors, were arrested. And yes, for those who are young reading this and weren’t born yet, they were minorities.1 Hispanic and 4 African American, and as you guessed, they were already guilty just off that alone. While in custody, they were pretty much intimidated into falsely confessing to a crime they didn’t commit. NYPD: Eric Reynolds. Homicide detectives: Mike Sheehan, Bruce Kimmitt, and Tom McKenna. Manhattan D.A. Linda Fairstein, along with Elizabeth Lederer, are all guilty of robbing 5 young boys of their freedom. As you already know, the local media were all over the story, and their coverage basically made New Yorkers pick whose side they were on.
Now this is when Donald Trump, who was just a private citizen at the time, decided to add his $85,000 opinion on the case. That was the total cost he coughed up just to have his 606-word post in New York newspapers. The irony of a man who, along with his father, was sued by the DOJ for racial discrimination in housing, would publicly advocate the death penalty of 5 minorities. You have to ask yourself why a privileged, spoon-fed millionaire cared so much about the locals that he feels are beneath him, that he was willing to put up $85K of his or his father’s money to advertise hate? And of course, he didn’t know the facts behind the case, but probably did that for attention. Nonetheless, all 5 boys pleaded not guilty and claimed their innocence, but unfortunately, they were found guilty. A combined sentencing of 35.5 years was a sad ending to the chapter. It wasn’t until 2002 that DNA evidence proved their innocence. Not only does DNA help their exoneration, but the actual person who committed the horrific crime came forward. Matias Reyes confessed to the assault and rape of jogger Trisha Meili. Guilt, at times, can weigh heavily like gravity. And you can imagine the years of guilt were building up on Reyes’s conscience.
Now, morally, if you accused someone of a crime and it turned out that they were innocent. You would apologize, right? Trisha Meili has yet to apologize to the now-grown men who were robbed of their teenage years after being falsely accused and imprisoned. And of course, President Donald Trump, as usual, never apologized to anyone in his lifetime. What makes his arrogance worse is that he still says the 5 men were guilty then and guilty now. This is despite the DNA evidence and Reyes’ confession. So this talk about $1.8 billion to insurrectionists for being wrongly convicted is laughable. Yes, each of the 5 men received around $7 million, and after that were swept under the rug. Still no real apology from Meili, Trump, and even NYPD Eric Reynolds, who still went on live TV to criticize the Netflix series When They See Us. Overall, this slush fund is not to be taken seriously because President Trump doesn’t care about justice at all. Some even speculate that this is just another way to scam taxpayers out of their money, just like Trump’s East Wing ballroom.
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