Trump faces another defamation lawsuit as the Central Park Five alleges decades of “extreme and outrageous behavior.”

Donald Trump has been sued for defamation by a group of men who were wrongly convicted of raping a jogger in New York’s Central Park in 1989.

At the time, the real estate mogul bought full-page ads in major newspapers with the headline “Bring Back the Death Penalty.”

The so-called “Central Park Five” had their wrongful convictions overturned in 2002 and the city paid $41 million in 2014 to settle a civil rights lawsuit.

Not only has Trump refused to recant or apologize for these statements, he has also falsely claimed that the men had pleaded guilty and suggested that they “ultimately killed a person.”

These men, now called the “Exonerated Five,” have accused the former president of making “false and defamatory” statements about them in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Pennsylvania.

Trump made his latest comments during his first and only presidential debate with Kamala Harris on September 10 in Philadelphia.

“Let’s remember that this is the same person who took out a full-page ad The New York Times “They are calling for the execution of five innocent black and Latino boys, the Central Park Five,” Harris said during the debate. “Put out a full-page ad calling for her execution.”

In response, Trump said, “You come up with things like what she just said many, many years ago when many people, including Mayor Bloomberg, agreed with me about the Central Park Five.”

Bloomberg was not mayor at the time. It was Ed Koch who refuted Trump’s statements at the time, saying: “No one I know in Western society believes that the death penalty would ever be imposed on juveniles under any circumstances.”

“You admitted,” Trump said at the debate. “They said they pleaded guilty. And I said, ‘Well, if they pleaded guilty, they seriously injured and ultimately killed a person.’ And if they pleaded guilty – then they maintained that we’re not guilty.”

One of those teenagers, Yusef Salaam, now 50, spent almost seven years in prison because of his wrongful conviction. Last year he was elected to the New York City Council representing Harlem.

He is the lead plaintiff in the latest defamation lawsuit against the former president, who, as the lawsuit lays out, has been accused of engaging in “extreme and outrageous behavior” toward the exonerated men for decades.

A jury concluded that Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault at a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, then lied in statements denying that he had accused her had ever met. He continues to deny the allegations even though a jury found him guilty of sexual abuse.

“Plaintiffs suffered harm, including severe emotional distress and reputational harm, as a direct result of Defendant Trump’s false and defamatory statements at the September 10 debate, as well as his ongoing pattern of extreme and outrageous behavior,” says the lawsuit filed by exonerated Central Park Five.

Her story was the subject of a documentary by Ken Burns and the acclaimed series When they see us by Ava DuVernay, which examined a broken justice system and the fog of racism and hate that surrounded the case and which Trump exploited.

Trump also encountered Salaam in the moments after the debate when the former president visited the so-called spin room.

“Are you going to apologize to the Exonerated Five? “Sir, what do you say to a member of the Central Park Five, sir?” Salaam shouted. “President Trump, I am Yusef Salaam, one of the Exonerated Five. How are you doing?”

Trump replied: “Then you’re on my side.”

“No, no, no, I’m not on your side,” Salaam replied.

On August 22, Salaam and three other exonerated men, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to support Harris.

“Forty-five wanted us no longer alive,” Salaam said, referring to Trump’s nickname as the 45th president.