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Trump to freed UCLA players: 'You're welcome'
Fox News ^ | Nov. 16, 2017 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 11/16/2017 6:14:41 AM PST by Bon of Babble

“To the three UCLA basketball players I say: You’re welcome, go out and give a big Thank You to President Xi Jinping of China who made your release possible and, HAVE A GREAT LIFE!” Trump tweeted early Thursday. “Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life!”

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KEYWORDS: athletes; trump45; trumpchina; ucla
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Should have left them to rot in a Chinese jail.
1 posted on 11/16/2017 6:14:41 AM PST by Bon of Babble
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To: Bon of Babble

Their apology sounded sincere and was much more than I expected. President Trump’s reply was fantastic.


2 posted on 11/16/2017 6:18:11 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan

Could you imagine the hosannas if Obama freed them?


3 posted on 11/16/2017 6:18:56 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Bon of Babble
and, HAVE A GREAT LIFE!...

I'd have phrased it "GET A LIFE!" and leave it at that.

4 posted on 11/16/2017 6:20:08 AM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: Luke21

I’m wondering if they’ll catch hell back on campus for thanking the president.


5 posted on 11/16/2017 6:20:21 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
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To: Luke21

Obama left people rotting in jails in Mexico, Somalia, and North Korea.


6 posted on 11/16/2017 6:21:04 AM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: Bon of Babble

I believe the President is taking the high road here. There is no harm in doing so.


7 posted on 11/16/2017 6:22:07 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Bon of Babble
"“Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life!”"

Very kind and generous advice from The President of the United States to these young men.

8 posted on 11/16/2017 6:22:15 AM PST by OKSooner (“Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life!” - POTUS Donald J. Trum)
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To: OKSooner

Edit to try to get that “A” out of my new tagline.


9 posted on 11/16/2017 6:23:41 AM PST by OKSooner (“Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life!” - POTUS Donald J. Trum)
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To: pgkdan

Agreed.


10 posted on 11/16/2017 6:24:15 AM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: OKSooner

.


11 posted on 11/16/2017 6:24:29 AM PST by OKSooner (Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
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To: OKSooner

A bit of humility goes a long way.


12 posted on 11/16/2017 6:27:06 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: OKSooner

Success at last......... lol


13 posted on 11/16/2017 6:27:09 AM PST by deport
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To: Bon of Babble

And this is why the first tweet was brilliant. Chess players think through many moves ahead . . . he set it up and now is able to also chalk up a marker on President Xi, as well as shutting the door on the critics of the first tweet. And diffused a really potentially messy affair.

When Clinton was President he publicly called for leniency with the Michael Fay caning in Singapore but didn’t get his way because they DIDN’T RESPECT HIM. Trump goes to bat and he makes himself AND Xi look statesmanlike, BECAUSE China RESPECTS TRUMP.

Trump gains a huge victory over the media and his critics

And notice the other benefit of this . . . LaVar has been SILENCED . . . who else can claim to have done that?

And now you have the juxtaposition . . .

Kap vs LiAngelo when it comes to the near future. Guess which side the African-American mother sides with?

Sometimes I wonder about my fellow Freepers . . . stop with the absolutes in these things . . . we won this BIGLY!


14 posted on 11/16/2017 6:28:35 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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I'm glad president Trump helped these guys out. It blows up the racist narrative put out by the Limousin liberals. President Trump is a man of action who knows how to get things done. Too bad the republican party can't say the same thing.
15 posted on 11/16/2017 6:35:26 AM PST by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's uunderwear)
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To: deport

:)


16 posted on 11/16/2017 6:45:54 AM PST by OKSooner (Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
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To: peeps36
It blows up the racist narrative put out by the Limousine liberals.

You mean there was a racial component to the story? And here I thought it was just a few college basketball plyers misbehaving! < /sarc >

17 posted on 11/16/2017 7:09:08 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: peeps36

Masterful.


18 posted on 11/16/2017 7:09:44 AM PST by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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To: Luke21

If 0bama had been President, they wouldn’t have been released for something like 444 days. That’s how democrat presidents roll.


19 posted on 11/16/2017 7:10:18 AM PST by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“I believe the President is taking the high road here. There is no harm in doing so.”
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Yeah!

TRUMP Is No Coincidence @ this time and place; as for all the rest of gubmint, etc,...I am reconsidering!

Semper POTUS.45 ~ IF We Can Keep Him?/!

Dick Gaines: AMERICAN! (NOTAINO)
aka: Gunny G
+++++++++++++++++++++++


20 posted on 11/16/2017 7:12:38 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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