Mark Cuban Defends Saying Donald Trump Is Intimidated By ‘Strong, Intelligent Women’

Billionaire and Shark Tank entrepreneur Mark Cuban says he’s not backtracking on his remark that former President Donald Trump has a problem with sturdy ladies after Trump supporters known as on the marketing campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris to “disavow” Cuban’s remarks.

“Donald Trump, you by no means see him round sturdy, clever ladies. Ever,” Cuban mentioned Thursday on ABC’s The View. “It’s simply that easy. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t wish to be challenged by them.”

Cuban, who mentioned throughout the ABC interview that he believed “ladies are going to win this election for the vp,” argued that it was revealing that Trump had but to name on former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley—probably the most outstanding ladies within the Republican Social gathering—to marketing campaign for him.

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In an interview with Fox Information Channel’s Bret Baier Wednesday, Haley mentioned that the Trump marketing campaign was risking turning off ladies voters within the closing days earlier than Election Day with messaging that “borders on edgy to the purpose that it’s going to make ladies uncomfortable.” Haley mentioned he had not spoken to Trump since June and had not been requested by the marketing campaign to assist the previous president make his closing argument to voters.

Republicans like Kellyanne Conway have been fast to sentence Cuban’s feedback. “Whether or not it’s Joe Biden calling us rubbish, or Mark Cuban denying our power and intelligence,” Conway mentioned in a video posted on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter, that Trump was “unafraid” to encompass himself with clever and succesful “women and men.”

The Trump marketing campaign’s “warfare room” account on X known as Cuban’s remark “disgusting” and accused him of “brazenly attacking the hundreds of thousands of sturdy, clever ladies preventing” alongside the previous president.

However Cuban’s not backing down.

“Nikki Haley will name him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and the way he sees and treats and talks about ladies,” Cuban mentioned Thursday. “I imply, he simply can’t have her round. It wouldn’t work.”

In a submit later within the day on X, Cuban clarified that “I do know many sturdy, clever ladies voting for Trump, together with in my prolonged household. I’m definitely not saying feminine voters usually are not sensible, sturdy and clever.”

Cuban additionally famous that Trump—throughout his time in workplace—labored with ladies like Elaine Chao, Haley, and his personal daughter, Ivanka.