Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam has won his Democratic primary in an election for a seat on the city council in NYC. And what better way to honor his victory than taking a shot at the man who once paid for multiple full-page ads calling for his death and is now currently drowning in legal woes of his own?

“There were large ads bought in 1989. A whisper for the state to kill us. A whisper, in fact, into the darkest enclaves of society for them to do to us what they had done to Emmitt Till,” Salaam said at a victory party on Tuesday in reference to former president and current defendant Donald Trump, according to the Daily Mail.

In 1989, Trump paid roughly $85,000 for full-page ads in several New York magazines calling on the state to “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY” and “BRING BACK OUR POLICE” so that all five Black and brown teens who were falsely caused of raping a white woman in Central Park could be executed.

“I want to hate these murderers and I always will,” Trump wrote at the time. “I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them.”

Then, in 2019, 17 years after their convictions were vacated, Trump still refused to apologize for his lynch-happy ad campaign and acknowledge that the five men were wrongly convicted. So, it’s understandable that Salaam has been using some of his time on the political stage to mock the twice-impeached one-term president who is currently facing 37 criminal indictments for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

From the Daily Mail:

In his response to Trump’s arrest in April, Salaam said: ‘Now, after several decades and an unfortunate and disastrous presidency, we all know exactly who Donald J. Trump is – a man who seeks to deny justice and fairness for others, while claiming only innocence for himself.’

His campaign featured an ad that he took out using the same typeface and capital letters: ‘BRING BACK JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS! BUILD A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR CENTRAL HARLEM!’

Salaam isn’t the only one celebrating his victory while chiding the former commander-in-voter-fraud-propaganda. The fine folks on Twitter were pretty relentless in doing the same.

Thirty-four years after Donald Trump led a lynch mob to execute him and four other wrongly accused young Black and brown men, Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five has declared victory in the New York City Council race to represent Harlem. pic.twitter.com/pJmTTt84NB

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 28, 2023

34 years ago Donald Trump took out a full page ad in the NYTimes demanding the death penalty for the Central Park 5.

Now, as Trump is facing his own prison time, Yusef Salaam is on his way to be the NYC Councilmember for Harlem!#Karma https://t.co/ru1nzlb9pP pic.twitter.com/zHkmzK9EsQ

— Cory Provost (@coryprovost) June 28, 2023

Donald Trump is under arrest and Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, is winning a seat on the New York City Council. pic.twitter.com/wNoSUYxQtm

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 28, 2023

Donald Trump is going to JAIL
And Yusef Salaam is going to CITY HALL#ExoneratedFive #CentralParkFive

— Toffee Fever (@ToffeeFever) June 28, 2023

Donald Trump is under arrest and on bail and Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, is winning a seat on the New York City Council. America is already great. https://t.co/tyqCq69XAz

— ‏ًً (@politicalplayer) June 28, 2023

If it had been up to #RACIST Herr #DonaldTrump, this INNOCENT MAN would have been put to death….

Central Park 5 member Yusef Salaam wins Democratic City Council primary in Harlem… https://t.co/0gh8xdI4mR pic.twitter.com/4RroeWY9Mz

— Neil M S (@NeilMS17) June 28, 2023

Exonerated Central Park 5 member Yusef Salaam winning city council primary

Donald Trump facing prison time. https://t.co/1l3PQgKuzj pic.twitter.com/MsRSIS2o9G

— Nathan Platt (@nathanplatt) June 28, 2023

At the end of the day, Salaam probably best described Trump’s situation in one word back in April:

“Karma.”

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