Earlier today, during his appearance on The View, billionaire and Kamala Harris surrogate Mark Cuban suggested that former President Donald Trump avoids associating with “strong, intelligent women,” sparking immediate heated reactions.
The remarks came after Cuban was asked whether he felt Trump had effectively courted the voters of fellow Republican and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Cuban responded by saying, “You never see Donald Trump around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple.” He elaborated that he believed Trump feels “intimidated” by such women, adding that figures like Haley might “call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women.”
Cuban’s comments follow a recent controversy over a statement by President Joe Biden referring to Trump supporters as “garbage,” a remark that has fueled ongoing debate over the tone of political discourse in the lead-up to the election.
NEW: Kamala Harris surrogate and billionaire Mark Cuban says there are never any "strong, intelligent women" around Donald Trump.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 31, 2024
The comment comes after President Biden called all Trump supporters "garbage."
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As Mediaite reports:
Cuban was an early supporter of Trump but has said he “grew out” of it when he felt Trump did not want to learn actual policy enough.
The hosts tried cleaning up the comment before moving on with Joy Behar calling Stormy Daniels a “very smart” woman. Trump continues to deny to this day ever having an affair with Daniels. In May, Trump was found guilty of multiple felony counts related to a hush money payment made to Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. Trump also continues to deny knowledge of this payment.
“I think Stormy is intelligent. I don’t think that’s 100%. She’s very smart,” Behar told Cuban.
Alyssa Farah Griffin and Whoopi Goldberg both then jumped in to clarify what they felt Cuban meant before Sunny Hostin took the next question.
“He means onstage,” Goldberg said, attempting to smooth things over.
The Trump campaign quickly responded to Cuban’s criticism. National press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the remarks “extremely insulting” to the “thousands of women” working for Trump and the “tens of millions” supporting his campaign and urged Harris to publicly disavow Cuban’s statement.
The full statement from Leavitt reads:
Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage, and now Kamala’s top surrogate Mark Cuban insinuated female Trump supporters are “weak and dumb.” This is extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are voting for him. These women are mothers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders and they are, indeed, strong AND intelligent, despite what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say. The joy at Kamala HQ has been replaced by division, vitriol, and a disturbing level of disrespect for the millions of Americans who are supporting President Trump after four years of destruction under Kamala Harris. Women want a President who will secure our border, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods, and put more money in our pockets — and that’s exactly why we are supporting President Trump. Kamala Harris must immediately condemn Mark Cuban’s disrespectful insult to women.
Regardless, Cuban’s comments add to the mounting tensions in the final days of this election cycle, highlighting the deepening divides among candidates and their supporters.
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Is Kamala Harris to fear for her Intelligence?
I would NOT fear her for THAT – but for her LAWYER TRICKERY!
We have to be careful with “Kamala the Lawyer”:
Imprisonment:
She fought to keep people in prison even after they were proven innocent!
In this context, she put an innocent man in prison for 18 years – knowing that he was convicted on “testimony” of a “bought informer of her own Mentor”
– but too politically tied to ever let this out: The man was imprisoned again – for the same false thing – AND SHE KNEW! – Ask the ‘Innocence Project”!
In other cases, Harris also overlooked and defended law enforcement officials accused of misconduct. In one of these, a state prosecutor, Robert Murray, falsified a confession, using it to threaten the defendant with life in prison. After a court threw out the indictment, Harris’s office appealed it, dismissing the misconduct because it did not involve physical violence.
In the case of Daniel Larsen, her office argued against that man who was proven innocent by the Innocence Project, because, Harris’s office claimed, he filed his petition for release far too late after a legal deadline. (In the New York Times, Bazelon listed several more such cases.) – Ask the ‘Innocence Project”!
Slavery?
At one point, her lawyers argued that the state couldn’t release some prisoners because it would deplete its pool for prison labor. – [by the way, her family owned about 200 slaves on their plantation in Jamaica, before they moved to the USA!]
Police Shootings:
Harris resisted attempts to hold police accountable for shootings.
She also defied calls to have her office quickly investigate certain police shootings in California.
Her inaction angered activists.
“How many more people need to die before she steps in?” an activist and former supporter, Phelicia Jones, told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2016, regarding police shootings.
[by the way, the WashPost statistics showed that the years of Trump Presidency were the first ones when LESS THAN 1,000 BLACK PEOPLE WERE SHOT DEAD by police!]
Death Penalty:
as attorney general, she told voters she would enforce capital punishment. And she did: In 2014, she appealed a judge’s decision that deemed California’s death penalty system unconstitutional.
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There is now the claim that Ms. Harris has become “progressive” – but one has to ask:
What that means, as we have seen violent criminals released on “progressive bail”,
who, used that freedom to run cars into Christmas parades!
But, as for Harris, some argue that she might never be redeemed, because:
The job she did at the time she took it just does NOT line up with Justice values
AND WITHOUT THESE, NO FAIR POLITICS ARE POSSIBLE!
Trump’s married to one. How come we never see Cuban with ANY women? Except, that is, the harpies on “The View”. Trump had multiple “strong, intelligent women” women on his staff, nominated one for the Supreme Court and numbers in the millions such women.
Mark Cuban is a fine example that you can have more money than brains!! Who really cares what he thinks … we ALL have to make up our own minds on who we want to vote for.