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Don King sets the record straight: 'Yes, I endorsed Donald Trump'
USA Today's Boxing Junkie | June 11, 2016 | Bob Velin

Posted on 06/11/2016 8:34:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: http://boxingjunkie.usatoday.com/2016/06/11/don-king-yes-i-endorsed-donald-trump/


TOPICS: Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016endorsements; afroturf; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; cleveland; donking; election2016; newyork; ohio; redistribution; reparations; trump; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 06/11/2016 8:34:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link to article: http://boxingjunkie.usatoday.com/2016/06/11/don-king-yes-i-endorsed-donald-trump/


2 posted on 06/11/2016 8:35:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Good for DK!


3 posted on 06/11/2016 8:37:22 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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I guess Don K. needed time to prepare for the backlash he knows will be coming.


4 posted on 06/11/2016 8:42:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This seals the deal!


5 posted on 06/11/2016 8:46:12 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far.)
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Don King has always been republican, hasn’t he???

Glad to see he’s smarter than the GOPe elitists....


6 posted on 06/11/2016 8:50:59 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mike Tyson. Don King. Self-made African Americans who make their homes in Vegas

No plantation African Americans in Vegas. Those are for the coasts and the Acela Corridor.


7 posted on 06/11/2016 8:51:35 PM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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One of my fond memories is being at a bus stop near the LA City Hall and suddenly seeing Don King and his entourage walking down the steps. The man has charisma, that's for sure! What a pure American character.
8 posted on 06/11/2016 8:54:40 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess Don King must be a racist then. /sarc


9 posted on 06/11/2016 9:03:23 PM PDT by RC one
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Don King and Donald Trump use the same hair stylist!


10 posted on 06/11/2016 9:04:03 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Kerry, Barry, and Cankles need to be hung by their heels, after trial and conviction for Treason!)
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He definitely is a character...He is well liked...I remember when I first saw him on TV, I thought he’d stuck his finger in an electric socket the way his hair stood up...


11 posted on 06/11/2016 9:04:28 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Thank you Don.


12 posted on 06/11/2016 9:07:29 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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But he wants Trump to run with Stalinist Sanders.


13 posted on 06/11/2016 9:20:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Gotta hand it to Don. He has probably known Donald Trump longer than anyone else in the celebrity and business realm.


14 posted on 06/11/2016 9:24:52 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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I guess King and Trump made up after their fabled battle on Celebrity Deathmatch:

Celebrity Deathmatch: Donald Trump v. Don King

Go to the 8 minute mark.

15 posted on 06/11/2016 9:26:35 PM PDT by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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Don King? Classify that under: I thought he died years ago.


16 posted on 06/11/2016 9:46:35 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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Don King has always endorsed Republicans. No news there.

Frankly, although endorsements like his are meaningless, they always make me uncomfortable (hint: Google Don King’s controversial history with his boxers. I only know what I’ve read, and I don’t think you’ll find a one who’ll have a nice thing to say. Cus D’Amato told Mike Tyson: “Stay away from Don King!” But Cus died while Mike was still a teenager. After Tyson became champ, and another close associate (Jacobs) died unexpectedly, King got his ear. His old team was tough on Tyson, wanting him to keep training hard. King told him, as I recall, things to the effect of “You’re THE CHAMP! You can do what you want!” The charmer won. Tyson fired his old team and joined team King. Started partying, slipping - ran into Buster Douglas’s right hand, then went up the river convicted for a crime he may or may not have committed. Went broke (that seems to be the common thread with King’s boxers). King’s sitting pretty. Its just that there is a very bad stink around his story. Again, since his endorsements don’t matter, it doesn’t bother me much that he always endorse’s Republicans. His personal story does bother me, though).


17 posted on 06/11/2016 10:06:46 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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“Don King? Classify that under: I thought he died years ago.”
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Same thought I had about Abe Vigoda back in the early 80’s


18 posted on 06/11/2016 10:48:43 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Simon Foxx

“Don King has always endorsed Republicans. No news there.”

the news is in context with the phoney baloney racist meme the MSM, GOPe and Clintonoid sharks are obsessively playing on Mr T; Happy Birthday on Tues. (I believe) Mr T!


19 posted on 06/11/2016 11:51:19 PM PDT by DEEP_e
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a racist!!!!!!/ sarc


20 posted on 06/12/2016 1:27:47 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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