Trump declined to offer an apology to the “Central Park Five” on Tuesday while taking questions from reporters as he was leaving the White House for his reelection campaign kick-off rally in Orlando. The question from White House correspondent April Ryan related to Trump’s 1989 reaction to five teens accused of raping and brutally beating a jogger, Trisha Meili, in New York City’s Central Park.

Trump, then a real estate developer, purchased full-page ads in several New York newspapers with a headline that read, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE.” The ads, penned by Trump, included quotes such as, “At what point did we cross the line from the fine and noble pursuit of genuine civil liberties to the reckless an dangerously permissive atmosphere which allows criminals of every age to beat and rape a helpless woman and then laugh at her family’s anguish?” and “I want to hate these murderers and I always will. I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them.”