Donald Trump Blamed the Victim in Mike Tyson’s Rape Case
‘You have a young woman that was in his hotel room late in the evening at her own will’
Donald Trump Blamed The Victim In Mike Tyson’s Rape Case (BuzzFeed)
When heavyweight-boxing champion Mike Tyson was convicted in 1992 of raping a beauty pageant contestant, his friend Donald Trump came to his defense — advocating for a way Tyson could avoid prison time and publicly defending the boxer’s character.
As first reported by Mother Jones, Trump suggested Tyson could pay the contestant, Desiree Washington, with money from a fight to avoid serving a jail sentence, and he said of Tyson, “After knowing Mike, I don’t know how it did happen.”
But in video obtained by BuzzFeed News, Trump went a step further by more directly suggesting Washington wasn’t a victim of rape at all.
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