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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
It was only fitting that Yusef Salaam was elected to a City Council seat from Harlem in the same week that former President Donald Trump was in a Manhattan courtroom lying about lying. The last time both men shared headlines in the same newspaper, Trump was calling for the death penalty after Salaam and four of his buddies were arrested and charged in the 1989 rape of a white woman jogging in Central Park. Salaam, Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana — Black and Latino teens from Harlem — had yet to face a jury, before Trump, a loudmouth, narcissistic real estate mo…