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Posted on 02/10/2026 3:25:39 PM PST by Kazan
A U.S. Olympic curler has become the latest in a trend of American athletes to use the Winter Olympics as a platform to blast President Trump’s policies at home.
Rich Ruohonen, 54, a member of the U.S. Olympic curling team and a native of Minnesota, used a considerable chunk of his time in front of reporters on Tuesday to speak out against the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in his home state to rid the streets of criminal illegals.
“I’d like to say I’m proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least mention what’s going on in Minnesota,” said Ruohonen, a personal injury lawyer.
“What a tough time it’s been for everybody. This stuff is happening right around where we live,” he added.
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“I am a lawyer, as you know. We have a constitution, and it allows us freedom of speech,” Ruohonen continued. “It protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures. And makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. What’s happening in Minnesota is wrong. There’s no shades of grey. It’s clear.”
Ruohonen went on to praise the anti-ICE activists who are demonstrating against the federal agents.
“I really love what’s been happening there now. With people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, the integrity and respect for others that they don’t know, and helping them out,” he said.
“We love Minnesota for that … We love our country. We’re playing for the U.S. We’re playing for each other, we’re playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to get here today.”
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Do better.
Shut up and sweep.
If illegals just left there wouldn’t be a problem
a personal injury lawyer, eh? Most of them are Democrat party hacks.
He needs to quit the team if he is not on the American team representing the USA.
Great team player, that one.
Does he have some responsibility if the illegal immigrants are not deported and kill or rape someone?
They need to pull him (and the rest of the snowflakes) out and ship him back home, with the bill for all of the related costs.
By "We" he is referring to American citizens with Constitutional rights, and not citizens of some other country who are not covered by the US Constitution...right?
Right?
Well, being an ambulance chaser as he probably is, Constitutional law is likely irrelevant to the scumbag.
“”” What’s happening in Minnesota is wrong. There’s no shades of grey. It’s clear.”””””
This jagoff lawyer doesn’t know the difference between Minnesota and Minneapolistan. Once you get out of Minneapolistan, where the cops are told to stand down, you will be arrested for “peaceful protesting” while hindering the federal agents.
Idiot.
Scum like this is why US is behind in medals.
If protestors went home....there wouldn’t be a problem.
if they are referring to the lunatics trying to obstruct justice and who are attacking federal agents..
yes, absolutely wrong.
But I suspect they are talking about our poor border control agents simply doing their jobs and enforcing the law.
“We” aren’t allowed to impede law enforcement you sick ambulance chaser.
Agreed. You either represent the USA or your off the team.
They might be robbing his house while he's away at the Olympics. They're entitled to all of it, according to him.
He ought to open up his own house or apartment to illegals and see what happens
first hand and support them as their slave until they toss him out, dead or alive, and
complete the replacement. There are so many more knucleheads around since
the Vaxx. Must be the Knucklehead Gain of Function eating away their
reasoning process.
Theyre being paid. Theyre on the clock.
“Rich Ruohonen, 54, a member of the U.S. Olympic curling team and a native of Minnesota”. I wonder if he does his own sweeping?
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