Mike Tyson and President Donald Trump were once very good friends, although it was a rocky relationship, to say the least. So in a weird way, it’s not entirely surprising that in a video posted by WNBC-TV, Thursday night, Tyson claimed that Trump promised him a pardon for his rape conviction.
It gets even weirder.
Tyson made the claim while sharing the stage with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and asked the governor to place a call to the president on his behalf. Christie joked — awkwardly — that he would raise the matter with Trump.
The exchanged happened while Tyson was appearing at the NJ Reentry Corporation’s prisoner reentry conference at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City. Former Governor Jim McGreevey asked Tyson if he had anything to say to Christie. To which Tyson replied:
Man, governor I wish you could talk to Donald Trump, cause I haven’t talked to him in many years. Tell him he said he was going to give me my pardon so I am waiting for my pardon. He said it out of his mouth so I’m waiting.
“I will put it on my list for the next phone call, Mike,” said Christie.
A spokeswoman for Tyson told NJ.com that Tyson was saying “partner,” referring to Trump as a past business partner.
“When I was on the phone with Mike he said he meant it in a joking way back when
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