Hollywood Reporter: After all this evidence and being exonerated, Donald Trump is still insisting you are guilty; explain what that does to your psyche.
Yusef Salaam: You know, it is definitely very upsetting. But as Nelson Mandela said, "When you are angry and you are bitter that can metastasize into something else." [Anger] really doesn’t do anything toward the object of your displeasure, but it does bring a lot towards you in terms of bringing you down, and bringing your energy down. I look at the positive in it, to be able to really look at the Central Park Jogger case as a pivotal moment and that pivotal moment being that we want America to be great. But in the America that we live in today, a lot of black and brown people are being murdered. A lot of people are being sent to jail for crimes that they didn’t commit. And that brings us full circle.
HR: Trump is the only person still saying you may have done it, right?
YS: He’s going off of reports that the police department produced back in 1989 and 1990. And when you look at the reports you get a false impression. I was the only one that didn’t make a written or videotaped confession. But when you look at the other confessions, these things that they called "confessions" were found to be false; you find out that none of them matched anything that the others were saying. Now he’s patting himself on the back. He’s now calling himself the "law-and-order president."
