"Just say you are investigating the Bidens..."

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12. It started long before then

On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump, then a real estate magnate, called for the return of the death penalty for murder in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. Trump said he wanted the "criminals of every age ... to be afraid".[2][43] The advertisement, which cost an estimated US$85,000 (equivalent to $186,000 in 2021),[2][43] said, in part,

Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer ... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS![44]

According to a contemporaneous article in the New York Amsterdam News, the ad was "widely condemned," including by then-Mayor Koch. Colin Moore, one of the attorneys defending one of the Central Park defendants, said that the ad "proved that anything is possible in America," and that "even a fool can become a multi-millionaire."[45][46]

According to defendant Yusef Salaam, quoted in a February 2016 article in The Guardian, Trump "was the fire starter" in 1989, as "common citizens were being manipulated and swayed into believing that we were guilty."[47] Salaam said his family received death threats after papers ran Trump's full-page ad urging the death penalty.[47]

Central Park 5 case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case