Bailiff: “Oh, that’s OK, President Trump. You don’t have to swear on the Bible. Just get down on one knee instead.”
Legally, it seems like a Hail Mary, but hey, they do work sometimes.
Go for it, I hope he continues to be a thorn in their side
Kap!
Way to go!!!
Bring down the dotard!!!
"No matter what we did, [Trump] would probably try to get involved one way or the other—either criticizing us or taking credit for the change.”
I guess you could call that that the Trump Doctrine. Either criticize, take credit, or whine because you aren’t being given credit.
Wouldn’t you like to see the day when the voter’s of the US finally say “fire this son-of-a-bitch”?
Trump’s gonna need a bigger law firm.
Good. I hope he sues the shit out of them both for abusing their power to target his career. I think he’ll be able to enforce the subpoenas. What discussions the POTUS and VP had with NFL owners, presidents, Goodell, etc., and how that played into his apparent blacklisting is very important and I’ll be dollars to donuts it’s going to show that Trump told them he wouldn’t stop attacking the league unless Kap was out.
I’ve been waiting for this.
If justice is allowed to proceed, Trump’s big mouth is going to bite him in the ass.
Not that it matters, but wasn’t there something a few days back about it being a crime for amember of the executive branch to interfere with private employment decisions?
Also, I doubt that “We all agreed not to hire him because we were afraid that the president would say nasty things about us” is an OK reason under the NFL’s bargaining agreement.
Trump may yet learn that these players are in no way as defenseless as the Central Park five.
What happened to Kap’s fluffy fro?
Seems to me that the team owners might be willing to kowtow to the guy who isn’t one of them (but wanted to be) but they might be reluctant to commit perjury for him.
Maybe. They perceive him as having them by the financial balls though. Plus, some of them are racist Trumper pricks themselves.
Well, of course I like lingering negative stories for Trump. But one must note that the odious rule could be removed quite easily by a social campaign with threats of boycott of NFL sponsors and NFL football itself.
Yahoo Sports noted that before issuing subpoenas, Kaepernick’s legal team would first have to convince the NFL’s system arbitrator, Stephen Burbank, that Trump and others are relevant to the case despite them not being covered by the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement.
If the NFL is smart, they should let this happen because it’s the only way of possibly shutting Trump up and putting him on the defensive on what he believes is a “winning issue” for him. Because otherwise, he’ll do his best to wreck the league he couldn’t get into.
I am so proud of Colin Kaepernick! I’m not a sports fan, but in an era when heroes are hard to find, his tenacity and leadership, using his position to heighten awareness of the racism in this country. It is the least cynical thing he could do, and that is what scares the current administration so much. They can’t make sense or deal with people who are not cynical or who can’t be bought off.
Hell, just one competent lawyer on his team would probably go a long way.
Yeah, but truthful testimony might not work out so well for them, either.