Trump moves to get exonerated Central Park Five defamation lawsuit thrown out

President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion to try to toss out the lawsuit against him by the exonerated "Central Park Five" — the group of five Black and Latino men who were initially convicted of a brutal rape in New York City in the late 1980s but later cleared as innocent.

The defamation suit was filed in October, after Trump — who initially responded to the case by taking out a massive pro-death penalty ad in the papers — doubled down on claiming it was reasonable to infer their...