Donald Trump Threatens to Boycott the NFL and U.S. Soccer if Players Kneel for Anthem Protest

the NFL already lost 1/2+ their audience last year and they will still go for politically correct

President Donald Trump criticized American sporting organizations for making steps to allow players to kneel in protest during the national anthem.

“I won’t be watching much anymore!” Trump wrote, sharing an article reporting the United States Soccer Federation repealed a rule banning players from kneeling during the national anthem.

In a statement, U.S. Soccer apologized for the rule, that kept their players from protesting during the anthem.

“We have not done enough to listen — especially to our players — to understand and acknowledge the very real and meaningful experiences of Black and other minority communities in our country.” the statement read “We apologize to our players — especially our Black players — staff, fans, and all who support eradicating racism.”

U.S. Soccer implemented the rule banning kneeling during the anthem in 2017 after Megan Rapinoe knelt during the anthem in solidarity with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Trump also noted that the NFL would likely allow kneeling during the anthem after commissioner Roger Goodell said the league was “wrong” for not listening to their players on the issue.

“It looks like the NFL is heading in that direction also, but not with me watching!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/14/donald-trump-threatens-to-boycott-the-nfl-and-u-s-soccer-if-players-kneel-for-anthem-protest/

Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Calls Out Roger Goodell, and NFL Owners Who Support Trump

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/06/14/spurs-coach-gregg-popovich-calls-out-roger-goodell-and-nfl-owners-who-support-trump/

Warner Todd Huston14 Jun 2020

Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Calls Out Roger Goodell, and NFL Owners Who Support Trump

San Antonio Spurs coach and Trump critic Gregg Popovich says that you can’t care about blacks and support President Donald Trump. Popovich also added that the American flag is “irrelevant.”

The NBA coach went on the attack against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for being “intimidated” by Trump, the New York Times reported.

“A smart man is running the NFL. and he didn’t understand the difference between the flag and what makes the country great — all the people who fought to allow [Colin] Kaepernick to have the right to kneel for justice,” Popovich said according to the paper. “The flag is irrelevant. It’s just a symbol that people glom onto for political reasons, just like [Dick] Cheney back in the Iraq war. . . . [Goodell] got intimidated when Trump jumped on the kneeling [and] he folded.”

Of course, there is a reason many equate Kaepernick’s protests to a direct attack on the flag and the country. That is because early in his protests, Kaepernick specifically said that was what it was all about. In August of 2016, he said, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

Later, though, others seeking to make Kaepernick’s protest more politically palatable changed discarded the evidence of his beliefs that the flag was a symbol for a racist country along with his strong dislike for the police, and transform it into some airy claim that he just wanted equality. Originally, Kaepernick wore socks portraying all police as pigs, he wore t-shirts celebrating communist dictators, and he said in his own words that America was “never great.”

But Popovich had more to say, adding that “hypocritical” NFL owners put themselves in a bad spot by trying to appease both players and Trump at the same time.

“It’s just hypocritical,” Popovich continued. “It’s incongruent. It doesn’t make sense. People aren’t blind. Do you go to your staff and your players and talk about injustices and democracy and how to protest? I don’t get it. I think they put themselves in a position that’s untenable.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/06/14/spurs-coach-gregg-popovich-calls-out-roger-goodell-and-nfl-owners-who-support-trump/

Warner Todd Huston14 Jun 2020

Carson: We Need to ‘Grow Up as a Society’ — Stop ‘Renaming Everything’ Because of Racial History

Pam Key14 Jun 2020

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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson called on society to “grow up” and stop renaming things because of the racial history.

Stephanopoulos asked, “The president’s convention acceptance speech is scheduled for Jacksonville on August 27th, a KKK mob attacked mostly black civil rights protesters. Is it appropriate to have a convention speech on that anniversary in that city?”

Carson said, “You know, we’ve reached a point in our society where we dissect everything and try to ascribe some nefarious notion to it. We really feed to move away from that. We need to move away from being offended by everything, of going through history and looking at everything, of renaming everything. I mean, think about the fact that some of our universities, some of our prestigious universities, have a relationship with the slave trade. Should we go and rename those universities? You know, it really gets to a point of being ridiculous after a while, and you know, we have to grow up as a society.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/06/14/carson-we-need-to-grow-up-as-a-society-stop-renaming-everything-because-of-racial-history/

Workers Find Artifacts While Removing Jefferson Davis Statue in Kentucky

Katherine Rodriguez14 Jun 2020

Workers removing a statue of Confederate Civil War leader Jefferson Davis found two surprises hidden inside its base.

The workers were taking the statue down from the Kentucky state capitol in Frankfort on Saturday when they discovered two unexpected artifacts inside its base — a bottle of Glenmore Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and a newspaper from October 30, 1936, the day the statue was put in place, the Associated Press reported.

The statue was placed in the capitol more than 80 years ago.

WLKY reported that the bottle might have held a piece of paper inside, but other reports have said the bottle was empty.

Kentucky’s Historic Properties Advisory Commission voted unanimously in an 11-1 vote on Friday to remove the Davis statue from the capitol.

Davis, a one-time president of the Confederate States of America, also served as a U.S. Senator who died in 1889. He was later indicted for treason, but never tried.

The Davis statue will be moved into storage and is expected to be relocated to a state park near his Fairview, Kentucky, birthplace, WDRB reported.

https://www.breitbart.com/local/2020/06/14/workers-find-artifacts-removing-jefferson-davis-statue-kentucky/

Trayvon Martin’s Mom: ‘We Need More Police,’ Not Defund Movement

Trayvon Martin’s mother said recently that she does not support efforts to reduce law enforcement resources amid calls to defund the police.

“I think we need more police,” Sybrina Fulton explained, adding, “We need police with better standards, and police with better ethics and better work habits,” according to the Daily Caller.

“I want residents to feel safe. I want to bridge the gap between the law enforcement and the community,” she continued.

In May 2019, Fulton announced she was running for a seat on Florida’s Miami-Dade County Commission with gun control as her top priority, according to Breitbart News.

“Since 2012, I have advocated tirelessly to empower our communities and make them safer. But the work is not done. I am proud to announce that I will run to represent District 1 on the county commission,” she said at the time.

Through her work with the Trayvon Martin Foundation, Fulton became a “leading voice on the need to end senseless gun violence,” her campaign website noted.

The foundation said its mission was to “provide both emotional and financial support to families who have loss [sic] a child to gun violence.”

The site continued:

Our goal is to shift the conversation from intervention to reform. Our programs are strengthening families through leadership, support, guidance, and counseling. The Foundation is supported by a network of individuals and companies who share a unified vision of a world free of senseless killings. Our core mission is to gain fellowship toward personal restoration and ultimately community building.

In February 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed Martin in self-defense. He was charged, tried, then cleared of all charges in July 2013, according to Breitbart News.

Regarding George Floyd’s death while in police custody, Fulton said whenever there was a loss of life, she wanted the alleged killer arrested and independent investigators to conduct a “thorough investigation.”

“I want to make sure that the police departments are compassionate enough to know when there is an issue. I want the good cops to say something about the bad cops,” she commented during an interview on June 1.

“I want laws to change so that whenever there’s a drug and alcohol test done on the person that’s deceased and a background check on a person that’s deceased, the same thing needs to happen to the person that shot and killed them,” Fulton concluded.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/06/13/trayvon-martins-mom-we-need-more-police-not-defund-movement/

Park Police Reiterate: No Tear Gas Outside WH Despite LA Times, Other Media Claims

Barr said abc multiple others says this but the media keep on saying there was tear gas…evil evil media==

When protesters were cleared from Lafayette Park and the nearby area on June 1, media across the country reported that tear gas was employed by multiple law enforcement agencies to drive out peaceful protesters.

On that Monday after order was restored, President Donald Trump and others in his administration walked from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church to view the damage done to the historic structures by protesters and to show the administration commitment to protecting the nation’s capital.

The protests were part of a nationwide response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police on Memorial Day.

As Breitbart News reported, the United States Park Police issued a statement on June 2 about the injuries inflicted on dozens of police officers during what they called “violent protests” where frozen water bottles, bricks, and “caustic liquids” were used against them.

Breitbart News asked the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, the Hill, and the Los Angeles Times why their newsrooms continue to falsely report that tear gas was used against peaceful protesters.

Media Mum on False Reporting

The only media outlet that responded was Norman Pearlstine, the executive editor of the Los Angeles Times.

Pearlstine’s response via email called the Park Police statement, “carefully worded” and disagreed with it:

We concluded that tear gas was used in Lafayette Park.

Officials agree that the law enforcement agencies on scene fired canisters of OC gas (oleoresins capiscum), a pepper-spray agent that is widely used as a riot-control chemical. They admitted that fact because reporters on scene discovered OC canisters on the ground after the park was cleared of protestors.

The administration’s position since that discovery has been that OC gas is not “tear gas” – a term that they say should be reserved for two other chemical agents commonly used in riot control, chloroacetophenone (CN), also known as mace, and chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (CS).

We disagree. OC gas is designed to control crowds by causing people’s eyes to uncontrollably tear and their throats to swell up, generating a choking sensation. It’s often used by police agencies interchangeably with CS gas. In any common-sense use of the term, it’s tear gas.

Even if we were to accept the administration’s desire to impose their own restrictive definition on a commonly used term, the claim that only OC gas was used appears to be false. Since the White House began pushing this line, reporters from WUSA-TV, based in DC, have discovered CS canisters on the ground at Lafayette Park, as well.

Pearlstine’s email also said that aside from the park police, other law enforcement groups, including military police, were used to clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area.

Breitbart News asked the Park Police several questions to clarify who was deployed on June 1 and what techniques were used to restore order.

Although the agency did not answer the questions directly, Acting Chief of the Park Police Gregory T. Monahan issued an additional statement on Saturday about the events surrounding protests at the end of May and the start of June when protests were bubbling up in the District.

Police Task Was Restoring Order

That statement repeats the denial of the use of tear gas as well naming the law enforcement agencies that were employed. In addition, it states the park and surrounding area was cleared not to allow Trump to visit the church but to allow for a protective fence to be installed:

The statement was emailed to Breitbart News:

In assisting the USSS [United States Secret Service] with their protective mission of the White House Zone, more than 50 U.S. Park Police Officers sustained injuries, some being hospitalized, throughout the operational period starting on May 29th. This illegal behavior by the protestors also resulted in several structure fires and significant property damage. This is indisputable.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/13/park-police-reiterate-no-tear-gas-outside-wh-despite-la-times-other-media-claims/

WATCH: Former Cop to AOC, Pelosi: ‘Defund Your Protection First’

Hannah Bleau13 Jun 2020

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Former police officer Tom Homan, speaking at Saturday’s pro-cop “We Back Blue” event in D.C., slammed progressive politicians for loudly calling for defunding police. He singled out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and challenged them to “lead by example” by defunding their own protection first.

Homan, a former officer who spent over three decades serving his community, spoke at the event and blasted progressive politicians who have, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, largely vilified police officers and demonstrated support for defunding police departments across the nation.

“Schumer and Pelosi are not speaking up,” he told the audience, emphasizing, again, that “we’re all against” racism.

“No one’s going to justify that, but they’ll stand out on a moment’s notice and defend people that are in here in the country illegally in violation of law, but they won’t stand out there and defend the men and women who leave the safety and security of their home every day … to defend their communities,” he continued. “They haven’t said a word. “

He used far-left “Squad” member Ocasio-Cortez as another example of a progressive politician who has failed to defend officers, instead using her platform to champion defunding police departments.

“She says we should defund the police, and we should all make sacrifices. Okay. So lead by example,” he suggested.

“Let’s take the law enforcement officers that provide them 24/7 law enforcement security. If they want to take protection away from the American people in their communities, lead by example,” Homan said.

“Defund your protection first,” he added. “You think they’re going to do it? They’re never going to do it.”

Ocasio-Cortez said on Thursday that a “defunded” police “looks like a suburb.”

“It looks like a suburb. Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing, etc more than they fund police,” she wrote in response to a question on Instagram.

The lawmaker claimed that “affluent white suburbs” also “design their own lives so that they walk through the world without having much interruption or interaction with police at all aside from community events and speeding tickets.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/13/former-cop-aoc-pelosi-defund-your-protection-first/

Italy: Chinese Nationals Arrested for Using Illegal Migrant Slave Labour

Italian authorities have arrested thirteen Chinese nationals who they say were using illegal migrants in slave-like conditions for a business making medical masks.

The Chinese “entrepreneurs” were taken into custody by the Guardia di Finanza in the city of Prato in Tuscany. Police also seized hundreds of thousands of medical masks which were being sold to Tuscan government authorities and handed out free to the public.

At least 90 workers making the masks were found to not have work permits or residency permits and many of the workers in one factory were forced by a Chinese man to work shifts of up to 16 hours a day with no days off and given just ten to fifteen minutes for breaks in which to eat, L’Arno reports.

Italian authorities have arrested thirteen Chinese nationals who they say were using illegal migrants in slave-like conditions for a business making medical masks.

The Chinese “entrepreneurs” were taken into custody by the Guardia di Finanza in the city of Prato in Tuscany. Police also seized hundreds of thousands of medical masks which were being sold to Tuscan government authorities and handed out free to the public.

At least 90 workers making the masks were found to not have work permits or residency permits and many of the workers in one factory were forced by a Chinese man to work shifts of up to 16 hours a day with no days off and given just ten to fifteen minutes for breaks in which to eat,

According to investigations, the workspaces had also been set up as accommodation for the migrants working in them, with one man forced to sleep in one of the toilets of the worksite.

As part of the investigation, 28 business in the textile district of Prato, all manged by Chinese nationals, were searched along with the residences of some employees.

ESTAR, the Tuscany region’s health service body, had ordered 6.7 million medical masks and the main supplier was forced to use contractors who in turn employed the Chinese-run businesses.

Enrico Rossi, president of the Tuscany region, praised the work of investigators and said: “Now, based on the results of the investigation, the Region will evaluate whether to take legal action.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/14/ital-chinese-nationals-arrested-for-using-illegal-migrant-slave-labour/

Report: Farage to Launch ‘Reform Party’ Amid Concern Over Boris’s Leadership

Thank God Boris is a major disappointment

Nigel Farage is reportedly set to relaunch the Brexit Party as the Reform Party, according to British tabloid the Sunday Express, as fears mount over Boris Johnson’s ability to secure a proper Brexit.

The budding party has apparently begun reaching out to disaffected Tory MPs for recruitment, begun talks with a public relations firm, and is preparing to stand at least one candidate in the next by-election.

“Phones have been buzzing, hundreds emails per day from furious Tory voters, donations pouring in, we are praying for a by-election in [a] Tory seat think would win one and gearing up for it, and currently deciding on who would stand,” a Brexit Party insider told the Sunday Express.

The launch of the new-look Brexit Party comes after LBC Radio decided not to renew Mr Farage’s contract, following his remarks comparing Black Lives Matter to the Taliban over their iconoclastic similarities in destroying historical monuments.

“[I am] watching and waiting. The lack of leadership from our government has been pitiful. Millions of Conservative voters want to see some moral courage, not the current cowardice in the face of anarchic Marxism,” Mr Farage said

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/14/report-farage-to-launch-reform-party-amid-concern-over-boriss-brexit-plans/

French Judge Arrested for Attempting to Prostitute 12-Year-Old Daughter Online

A 55-year-old judge in the French city of Dijon has been arrested after trying to pimp out his 12-year-old daughter to other men on a “libertine” dating forum website.

The judge is said to have been a member of the website’s community, along with his wife, and went as far as proposing that other adult male members of the community not only have sex with his wife but rape his young daughter as well.

According to investigators, the judge would initially offer various men the option to sleep with his wife and later on would mention his daughter. The messages went on for months but none of the users of the forum accepted the proposal, Le Parisien reports.

Earlier this month, both the 55-year-old and his wife were placed in custody but the wife was released after claiming to have no knowledge of her husband’s activities. She is currently not facing any charges.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/14/french-judge-arrested-for-attempting-to-prostitute-12-year-old-daughter-online/

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