Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Georgia State University Convocation Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 3, 2024.
Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who is at the center of gender controversy in the 2024 Paris Olympics, is transgender.
Trump made the false claim during his campaign rally at the Georgia State University Convocation Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 3.
“Now all you have to do is look at the boxers. This young girl from Italy, a champion boxer, she got hit so hard she didn’t know what the hell hit her,” Trump said, referring to Italy’s Angela Carini who quit 46 seconds into her Olympic match against Khelif last Thursday, August 1.
“It’s a person that transitioned,” the former president said of Khelif. “He was a good male boxer. And [Carini] didn’t even go down. He hit her with two jabs and she said ‘I’m out.'”
Before Trump’s rally in Atlanta, he shared a video of the fight between Khelif and Carini in a post on Truth Social, saying: “I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!”
A spokesperson from Trump’s campaign then tied the controversy surrounding Khelif to the ongoing debate on trans women competing in female sports. Trump’s camp also used the Olympic boxing controversy to attack Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
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