2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump Blamed Mike Tyson’s Rape Victim: She Went to Hotel Room on ‘Her Own Will’
After boxer Mike Tyson was sentenced to six years for raping an 18-year-old beauty queen, Donald Trump responded by arguing on national television that Tyson had been railroaded, noting that she had gone to Tysons hotel room on her own.
You have a young woman that was in his hotel room late in the evening at her own will, Trump told NBC News in 1992, in a clip dug up by Buzzfeed. You have a young woman seen dancing for the beauty contestdancing with a big smile on her face, looked happy as can be.
Its my opinion that to a large extent, Mike Tyson was railroaded in this case, Trump said.
Purely by coincidence, Trumps advocacy for Tyson came at a time when he stood to make a huge profit if he was released. As Mother Jones noted in December, Tysons bouts had been highly lucrative for Trumps casinos, which paid millions to host the fights but reaped millions more in revenues from the surge in gambling that resulted during these highly anticipated events.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-blamed-mike-tysons-rape-victim-she-went-to-hotel-room-on-her-own-will/
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Are you claiming that dancing happily and being in a beauty contest infers consent?
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)Where does he draw the line??
LeftRant
(524 posts)That's the relevant thing here.