Trump has his own apologies to make

Donald Trump needs to apologize to the Central Park Five teenagers. Trump falsely accused five teenagers of raping and beating a 28-year-old investment banker in 1989.

Trump spent $85,000 on ads in four New York newspapers to accuse the five teenagers of the crime. Trump was wrong, egregiously wrong. Trump needs to apologize to these young men. They were innocent. A person by the name of Matias Reyes was later found to be the guilty person.

So the next time Donald Trump says someone has to apologize to him, the answer is that he must apologize to five young men he falsely accused of a crime, and made discriminatory accusations.

And secondly, now as an occupant of the White House, he has sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution. In the second paragraph of Article I, Section 9, the Constitution gives Americans the right to see criminal charges against them in writing by the authorities not in a newspaper by a private citizen.

The Fifth Amendment gives Americans the right to due process of law before they are imprisoned for a crime, i.e. a trial in a court of law. Each time Trump instigates crowds to yell "Lock her up" he has violated his oath of office.

And as a private citizen in 1989, he ignored the U.S. Constitution's provision giving all Americans the right to be considered innocent until found guilty in a court of law.

Trump trashes the U.S. Constitution.

Tom Teune

Wheaton