During Tuesday nights presidential debate, former President Donald Trump doubled down on one of his most notoriously racist stunts, seemingly defending his decision to run advertisements calling for a group of five Black and Latino teenagers to be executed.

Instead of apologizing to the wrongly convicted teenagers, who are now grown men, Trump used the spotlight afforded him to call them guilty all over again.

They admitted they said, they pled guilty, Trump said, responding to a remark from Vice President Kamala Harris about his actions.

And I said, Well, if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately, and if they pled guilty, he concluded.

(None of them pleaded guilty .)

One of the exonerated men, Yusef Salaam, approached Trump after the debate when the former president made an unexpected appearance in the spin room.

Thats good, youre on my side! Trump exclaimed when he saw Salaam, smiling and pointing at him.

Salaam, now a New York City Council member , retorted: No, no, Im not on your side!