Trump Won’t Let NFL Row Go, Drags In Chief of Staff Over CNN Report

2018/05/14 15:21:35 網誌分類: inhandnetworks
14 May

Donald Trump continued his running battle with the NFL Monday night, dragging Chief of Staff John Kelly and CNN into the debate.

“.@CNN is #FakeNews. Just reported COS (John Kelly) was opposed to my stance on NFL players disrespecting FLAG, ANTHEM, COUNTRY. Total lie!” Trump tweeted late Monday.

CNN had claimed in a report Monday evening that Kelly, a former United States Marine, was “not pleased” with the way Trump’s comments erupted into a fight over the weekend between the president and the country’s biggest sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA. At a rally in Alabama Friday, Trump spoke of his desire to see NFL owners “fire” NFL players who kneel during the national a remote machine monitoring nthem, a gesture that has become widespread since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick first performed it in a regular-season game last September in protest at the mistreatment of minorities in the United States.

Kelly, whose son Robert Michael was killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2010, told CNN Monday night he believed players should stand for the anthem. "I believe every American, when the national anthem is played, should cover their hearts and think about all the men and women who have been maimed and killed," Kell industrial LTE router y said.

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