Boxing Promoter Don King Endorses Trump for President

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โ€˜A vote for Trump is a vote for yourself,โ€™ the iconic boxing promoter has said.

Iconic boxing promoter Don King has endorsed former President Donald Trump for president in the 2024 election.

The 92-year-old made the remarks on May 8 on the sidelines of an event after being asked if he has a message for President Trump, whoโ€™s facing a bevy of court cases that threaten to derail his presidential campaign.

โ€œGet reelected,โ€ Mr. King said. โ€œAnd we must reelect him to save ourselves. You know, a vote for Trump is a vote for yourself. Because weโ€™ve got to fight the system of lies and the creation of wrong being right and right being wrong. Thatโ€™s got to be eliminated.โ€

He called President Trump โ€œthe only man whoโ€™s got the intestinal fortitude to be able to stand up and fight the system like it should be fought,โ€

Mr. King said the former president โ€œunderestimated the power of this strong system of corruption and hypocrisy.โ€

While Mr. King didnโ€™t elaborate on the โ€œsystem of corruption and hypocrisyโ€ that he had in mind, it could be a reference to the numerous legal battles that the former president is fighting that he and his supporters argue are thinly veiled attempts to use lawfare to derail his comeback bid.

โ€œI want to say to him, letโ€™s [save] America, letโ€™s save ourselves, and then we can help others to be safe,โ€ Mr. King added.

President Trump shared the video on his social media platform, Truth Social, thanking Mr. King for his endorsement and message of encouragement.

โ€˜Heโ€™d Be Muhammad Aliโ€™

Mr. Kingโ€™s sympathies for the former president are well-established, with the boxing promoter being one of few celebrities who endorsed then-candidate Trump in the 2016 election.

Introducing then-candidate Trump at a church event in Ohio in 2016, Mr. King called him โ€œcourageous and braveโ€ and said he believed the future president would fix the โ€œcorruptโ€ and โ€œriggedโ€ system and bring the country โ€œback to inclusiveness.โ€

In mid-2017, after President Trump had spent several months in office, Mr. King told Politico Magazine in an exclusive interview that he believed he was doing an โ€œexcellent jobโ€ while lamenting the fact that his presidency was being overshadowed by the so-called โ€œRussian collusionโ€ scandal, which later turned out to be a hoax.

Byย Tom Ozimek

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