Carly Fiorina went after Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump Friday for proudly touting an endorsement from Mike Tyson in the same city the ex-heavyweight champion was convicted for rape.
Fiorina, Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) newly-minted running mate, told reporters Trump was touting “all the tough guys” like Tyson endorsing him during a rally this week in Indianapolis.
“Sorry, I don’t consider a convicted rapist a tough guy,” she said. “And I think it says a lot about Donald Trump’s campaign and his character that he is standing up and cheering for an endorsement by Mike Tyson.”
In 1992, an Indianapolis court convicted Tyson of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington, a former contestant in the Miss Black America beauty pageant.
Trump supported Tyson after the verdict and said in a recently unearthed interview that the boxer was “railroaded.” He further blamed Washington for going to Tyson’s hotel room “at her own will.”
At the campaign event, Trump cited a tweet from Tyson endorsing him, but no such tweet appears to exist from @MikeTyson‘s verified Twitter account. As the Weekly Standard first flagged, Tyson’s only tweets about Trump were challenging the billionaire to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in summer 2014.
With no due respect, Ms. Fiorina, but how many companies have you raped over?
broken clock etc
Can’t wait for The Donald’s twitter response to Fiorina. Pass the popcorn please. The next few days should be entertaining as the totally desperate Cruz campaign goes after Trump and he returns fire. I think it’s going to be a combo scorched-earth show.
What was she wearing?
Many professional athletes have been coddled for so long, and escaped consequences for moral and criminal transgressions for years due to their skills, that they feel exempt from conventional norms of behavior. That includes treatment of women. They often have levels of mood altering steroids and supplements in the system. Their sport requires the cultivation of an aggressive and domineering attitude towards others, at least on their field of play. Unfortunately it may naturally spill over to their private life, those urges can be hard to wall off. Knowing all that I fail to understand why in the hell a single woman would enter, unescorted and/or alone, the hotel room of a pro athlete. Coaches have an admonition doled out to players, “Nothing much good ever happens after midnight.” Similarly, nothing much good ever happens to a young woman alone late at night in the hotel room of a professional athlete, especially considering it may be to cap off a night of drinking and partying. Go home, you’re asking for trouble.