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George Foreman accused of sexual abuse by two women: lawsuits
NYPost ^ | 08/26/2022 | Allie Griffin

Posted on 08/26/2022 12:45:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Callahan
The allegations are plenty believable.

50 year old allegations.

21 posted on 08/26/2022 1:33:15 PM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You need two or more women who were plausibly in his presence to make this stick. The women had to wait to the social media era to join forces.


22 posted on 08/26/2022 1:34:18 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Mr. Rabbit
If these accusations are from the 1970s, it's a money grab.

Somebody looked at me the wrong way back in 1982. I think they should pay.

23 posted on 08/26/2022 1:46:52 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,918,974 users on Truth Social)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Two women are suing George Foreman over allegations that the former heavyweight boxing champion sexually abused them when they were teenagers in the 1970s.

They waited over 40 years to sue the guy? Yeah, that sounds totally legit.


24 posted on 08/26/2022 2:12:25 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: EastTexasTraveler
It worked out so well for that ditz who tried to derail the confirmation of Brent Kavanaugh. She later admitted she was lying and suffered zero consequences.

She is still a folk hero to the left.

25 posted on 08/26/2022 2:14:29 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Callahan

His idol was Jim Brown, a notorious wife-beater. His sparring partner was Sonny Liston, another mean guy who famously hung out with thugs and mobsters.

So he’s guilty because people he associated with were guilty. That is not logical.


26 posted on 08/26/2022 2:15:11 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

50 YEARS? These people should have THEIR possessions taken by force and sent to prison.


27 posted on 08/26/2022 2:30:07 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
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To: Callahan

Don’t confuse cuddly pitch man George with 1970s George. By his own account, Foreman was a ghetto-raised mugger and all-around cruel dude as a younger man. His idol was Jim Brown, a notorious wife-beater. His sparring partner was Sonny Liston, another mean guy who famously hung out with thugs and mobsters. The allegations are plenty believable.

Idolizing a man has nothing to do with how he acted in Private. MANY people idolized him. Liston was a boxer, ALL boxers hang out with thugs(boxers) and mobsters. Cassius Clay hung out with Bundini Brown, the Black Muslims, and Calypso Louie. The Nation of Islam was very likely to have killed Malcolm X . In the boxing world, organized crime is thickly represented.


28 posted on 08/26/2022 2:35:08 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Please, don’t hold this against me, but I have trouble remembering what I ate two days ago.

5.56mm


29 posted on 08/26/2022 2:35:43 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: mykroar

They can’t change statutes of limitations, on crimes long ago. To be Constitutional, it could only apply from signing into the future.


30 posted on 08/26/2022 2:36:15 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
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To: Callahan
In 1968, when other black athletes were raising their fists at the Olympics during the national anthem and pressuring them to join their protests, he carried American flags with him into the ring each time he fought.

60-year-old allegations are inherently not credible. We cannot have a society where somebody can be accused of something that long after the fact, making them unable to defend themselves, and give those accusations any credibility.

31 posted on 08/26/2022 2:40:56 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Glad2bnuts

HAHAHA. You said Constitutional!


32 posted on 08/26/2022 2:43:59 PM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any proof?


33 posted on 08/26/2022 2:46:59 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: lee martell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWCHbZRzR4


34 posted on 08/26/2022 2:48:46 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is like the Bob Dylan accuser alleging stuff in 1965!

Which was just dropped last month, I think. The media dropped her like a rock when it became clear her claims were impossible based on his tour dates because he was on the west coast and then flew from Seattle to London during the time she claimed he was in NYC plying her with booze and pills.

Foreman may also have a very well document travel history that puts the lie to the allegations.


35 posted on 08/26/2022 2:50:01 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Callahan
I was about to say the same thing. The George Foreman of the 1970s was not a nice guy.

I would quibble on one point - Foreman was Sonny Liston's sparring partner. Their careers were on different trajectories but at the time when Foreman was sparring with Liston, Liston was still a main-event fighter while Foreman had not yet broken into that level. Foreman admitted that Liston roughed him up a lot in those sparring sessions.

36 posted on 08/26/2022 3:02:52 PM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Callahan
"Don’t confuse cuddly pitch man George with 1970s George. By his own account, Foreman was a ghetto-raised mugger and all-around cruel dude as a younger man. His idol was Jim Brown, a notorious wife-beater. His sparring partner was Sonny Liston, another mean guy who famously hung out with thugs and mobsters."

Which changed with his crisis conversion in In March 1977,

minutes after he was pummeled into defeat by the heavyweight Jimmy Young, and it came in the most frightening way. “In the dressing room, I was walking back and forth to cool off,” he told The Houston Chronicle. “Then in a split second, I was fighting for my life.” Foreman’s mind filled with battling thoughts: preening pride versus death and panic. “I kept thinking, You believe in God; why are you afraid to die?” Foreman said. “But I really didn’t believe.”
Foreman bargained, offering to devote his boxing prize money to charity. “I don’t want your money,” Foreman heard a voice say. “I want you.” Instantly he found himself cast into the bleakest darkness he had experienced. “It was the saddest, most horrible place I had ever seen,” he said. Then a “giant hand” plucked him into consciousness. Foreman found himself on a locker room table, surrounded by friends and staff members. He felt as if he were physically filled with the presence of a dying Christ. He felt his forehead bleed, punctured by a crown of thorns; his wrists, he believed, had been pierced by nails of the cross. “I knew that Jesus Christ was coming alive in me,” Foreman said. “I ran into the shower and turned on the water and — hallelujah! — I was born again. I kissed everybody in the dressing room and told them I loved them. - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/sports/the-conversion-of-george-foreman-packing-a-wallop-in-the-pulpit.html Video
As for the 45 year old accusation,
“They are falsely claiming that I sexually abused them over 45 years ago in the 1970s. I adamantly and categorically deny these allegations.”

that would be sometime in 1977, and if after his manifest conversion, casts more doubt on accusations many decades of silence. If true, then the denial is the actual issue that impugns his character.

37 posted on 08/26/2022 3:44:15 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They never got their dresses cleaned? Here we go again...


38 posted on 08/26/2022 4:38:58 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: ronniesgal

‘’Fathers” (at least to 75% of a certain ethnicity) somehow aren’t present in the households..but the EBT’s, Food Stamps, FREE abortions, and Obamaphones always are.


39 posted on 08/26/2022 5:10:09 PM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

40 posted on 08/26/2022 5:13:24 PM PDT by al baby (Yes i know it was Gere )
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