Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is a racist for mentioning this week that professional boxing legend Mike Tyson was once convicted of rape, said longtime political operative and Donald Trump supporter Roger Stone.
“I knew [Carly Fiorina] was an incompetent. I didn’t know she was a racist,” he said Friday on social media.
Fiorina, who accepted a position this week as Sen. Ted Cruz’s, R-Texas, running mate, took a shot at Trump during a press conference Friday, and mocked the billionaire businessman for bragging recently that he had secured an endorsement from “tough guy” Mike Tyson.
“By the way, if I could just add, I was actually interested to see an endorsement the other day by Mike Tyson for Donald Trump, and Donald Trump saying, ‘Wow, all the tough guys are endorsing me.’ Sorry, I don’t consider a convicted rapist a ‘tough guy,'” she said.
“And I think it says a lot that Donald Trump’s campaign and his character that he is standing up and cheering for an endorsement by Mike Tyson,” she said.
Tyson was convicted in the early 1990s of raping an 18-year-old woman in Indiana. He was sentenced to six years in prison for his crime.
For Stone, who until August 2015 served as an adviser to the casino tycoon, Fiorina’s remarks smacked of racism.
His strong reaction to the former CEO’s remarks is notable given some of the stuff that he has said in the past about African-Americans.
In 2012, he referred to CNN contributor Roland Martin in 2012 as a “fat negro.” The infamous political operative also joked once that former 2016 GOP candidate Ben Carson’s campaign headquarters could be called, “Uncle Tom’s cabin.”
Would @BenCarson2016 HQ be called Uncle Tom’s cabin ? Just asking……
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) November 15, 2015
Trump’s endorsement from the boxing icon comes ahead of Indiana’s Republican primary, which will pit Trump against Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
