Trump’s Arrest Is ‘Karma,’ Says Wrongfully Accused Man Who Former President Wanted To Be Executed

Yusef Salaam attends the unveiling of the Gate of the Exonerated in Harlem on December 19, 2022 in New York City. The Gate of the Exonerated honors the Central Park Five, five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly convicted for the 1989 Central Park jogger rape. JOHNNY NUNEZ/BENZINGA

Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men dubbed the Central Park Five (now the Exonerated Five), parodied an ad that Donald Trump placed in newspapers back in the 1980s calling for New York to “bring back the death penalty.”

“Over 30 years ago, Donald Trump took out full page ads calling for my execution,” Salaam tweeted on Tuesday night. “On the day he was arrested and arraigned, here is my ad in response.”