The One Thing You Need to Know About Trump's War on Take-a-Knee Athletes
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The one thing you need to know about President Trump’s war of words with take-a-knee athletes: Russia.
Though Trump has played the Hey-look-over-here game before as his administration has bogged down in scandals and failures, his Friday declaration at an Alabama rally that professional athletes who join protest kneel-ins during the playing of the national anthem should be fired has arguably succeeded like no other Trumpian distraction.
Trump got the whole media-industrial-complex to pivot to the controversy just as the Mueller investigation of Russian influence on the presidential election has been dramatically escalating. Yes, Trump’s attack on knee-taking protests also distracts from other Trump administration albatrosses, such as the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, but Trump gives himself an easy out on that front: He simply disowns the problem, acts like it’s yet another fumble by GOP party leadership and then points to a villainin this case, Sen. John McCain, whose decision to oppose the latest repeal effort Trump called “honestly terrible” at the Alabama rally.
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