Posted on 06/08/2018 6:35:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump held out an olive branch in his feud with National Football League players on Friday, asking them for recommendations as he considers pardoning several thousand people who may have been unfairly treated by the criminal justice system.
But civil rights activists were skeptical of Trump’s gesture, given his repeated use of a controversy around the national anthem at NFL games to stoke the country’s culture wars, and his fraught relationship with the African-American community.
Trump has been highly critical of NFL players who have protested the fatal police shootings of unarmed black men and systemic inequities by kneeling during the playing of the national anthem at games....
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With the current employment numbers, he should get 25%. People like paychecks
It can’t hurt, and may help a little.
The gesture should be conducted in a low key fashion, with very few if any cameras or blabbermouth ‘reporters’.
The more advance notice to a joint meeting, the more some Race-Baiter will try to sabotage it; talk the athlete out of meeting with Trump anywhere, or for any reason. Jay Z and LeBron James are two such people, who thrive off of racial hatred and manipulation of weaker minds (i.e. Steph Curry).
He’s forcing their hand to substantiate their complaints with real cases and not just the bs assumptions that get thrown around.
Not a one will take him up on it.
Nothing good ever came from appeasing spoiled children.
I highly doubt this will be the end of it. If history is any guide, the ‘demands’ by the overpaid thugs masking as professionals will only intensify.
I see the realization finally dawning on the aging Dem leadership that their fear tactics and personal attacks are having zero effect and that their base is beginnng to feel active dislike for them.
They are like a person debating which seat to take on a train that’s already left the station.
“Not a one will take him up on it.”
Me neither. It’s a sign of weakness. Those animals should be the one giving an olive branch and the entire tree..
Quite. Killing them with kindness. They have no idea how to react.
“He just needs to slowly peel-off 5 or 10% of black and Hispanic voters and the Democrats will have no chance in the next presidential election.”
President Trump is aways far ahead of the Democrats on matters of race.
Pardoning several thousand Blacks in Swing States would provide a lock for Trump winning in 2020.
I do always wonder with protestors, is it about making things better or the protest in and of itself? And they’d really have to humble themselves to put forth names to President Trump.
It is legal.
It is a direct response to their complaints.
It makes them come to him with requests that only he can fulfill.
It can create great press.
Every single case makes people wonder, “Why didn’t Obama do that?”
There were players who claimed they knew “innocent” black men who were victims of a racist justice system. They probably didn’t expect that they would have to name names. With “innocent” being such a subjective claim for them. This should be interesting.
Considering their propensity to commit violent crimes, they should take him up on his offer. They may need their own pardon soon.
I guess one man’s “olive branch” is another man’s “put up or shut up”.
“He’s forcing their hand to substantiate their complaints with real cases and not just the bs assumptions that get thrown around.”
Exactly.
He ain’t offering Jack@#$%. He’s making them put up or shut up and he knows they won’t be able to put up. Trump is some kind of genius. Really like a svengali who is the LEFT’s worse nitemare. Amazing to watch........
Nothing good ever came from appeasing spoiled children.
President Trump is very good at playing the long game. It cost nothing to make the offer.
Sometimes words are not meant for those that they are directed at, but at those standing by watching what is going on. I don’t think President Trump is speaking to the players (although I am sure he will follow through is any of them take up his offer), I think he was speaking to the black community.
Understood.
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