Posted on 11/19/2017 3:03:10 PM PST by mandaladon
President Donald Trump says he should have left three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting in China in jail.
Trump's tweet Sunday comes after the father of player LiAngelo Ball minimized Trump's involvement in winning the players' release in comments to ESPN.
"Who?" LaVar Ball told ESPN on Friday, when asked about Trump's involvement in the matter. "What was he over there for? Don't tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out."
Trump has said he raised the players' detention with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) during the leaders' recent meeting in Beijing.
The players returned to the U.S. last week. They have been indefinitely suspended from the team.
Says Trump: "Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!"
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He has a good enough relationship with China now - they’ll take them back if he asks them to....And made this dad of theirs too.
What Trump said!
Trump shoulda cut a deal to leave them there for 30 days without knowledge of the actual term. It woulda been better instruction.
Now we know where his lack of character is from
So I guess he’s not the sort who would thank you if you held the door open for him.
The dad is the epitome of “garbage-human”. China should ask for them back, and we extradite their asses back there.
Trump should stop giving an attention to people that don’t deserve it.
I agree, he should have left them there. We have enough thieves running loose, send them back.
He should have left them there to rot. Learn what “oppression” actually is!
Then he could’ve gotten them out a month later after they’ve panicked a bit.
Slap the ingrates in the face.
Yes, a little extradition should calm the basketball players and their parents down.
LaVar Ball is stupid, in addition to being a total jerk.
Indeed, excellent point.
Ends up just giving the lefties more fodder. Stop the childish prattle, Trump!
“Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt!”
Oh, please, everyone whining about Trump’s Tweet would never vote for him anyway.
Trump showed that he will give somebody a chance if he thinks they deserve it. Time will tell.
Live and learn.
He should have let LaVar Ball continue to show what an asshole he is and said nothing in refurn.
You, who thinks they need more fodder is going to weigh in?
BWAHAHAHAAHHHAHAHA.
Your post reads like something a 'deep thinking' idiot would write.
I wish he’d waited for them to ask for his help. They might have appreciated it if they had to beg. Instead, he assumed they some dignity to protect.
Remember how long it took Turdbama to get the release of that Marine from a Mexican jail? Come to think of it, I’m not sure he helped at all.
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