Blue-check Twitter is apparently calling for ex-NBA star and coach Kevin McHale to be fired from his job as a TNT commentator after allegedly attending the Donald Trump rally in Duluth, Minn., last night.
Merely showing up to hear a president speak doesn’t necessarily mean that a person supports the entire POTUS agenda. Moreover, the controversy du jour that has enraged the social justice cohort — family separation at the border — was also in effect during the Obama administration with no outcry.
“Speculation that the man in the images is McHale was fueled by his wife Lynn McHale, who regularly posts pro-Trump updates on Twitter. And when Twitter users thought they had seen her husband at the Duluth rally, they descended on her account—which she then deleted,” Newsweek explained.
Thousands came to cheer President Trump in Duluth. pic.twitter.com/SEzYnpnr5p
— Glen Stubbe (@gspphoto) June 21, 2018
From Clay Travis’ Outkick the Coverage blog:
“It’s important to note that LeBron James attended a Hillary Clinton campaign event on the stage and not one person with any kind of audience in the country had any issue with that or even remotely suggested it should impact his job status. Because LeBron’s a citizen, just like you and me, and he has a right to his political opinions, just like you and me, even if we disagree. This is what reasonable adults used to think… all Kevin McHale did was attend a rally. He was just in the crowd. He didn’t speak or openly support Trump. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but he didn’t do it.) All McHale did was show up in the corner of a photograph of the rally.”
Greg Popovich, Steve Kerr, LeBron, all of them can rip Donald Trump publicly & no one says a word about their jobs. But Kevin McHale, in his own private life, can't even silently stand in the crowd at a Trump rally? The sports media has gone insane: https://t.co/fb6G9EB3Bx
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 21, 2018
Fact:
Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 20, 2018
Obama to Central Americans in 2014: “Don’t send your children unaccompanied, on trains or through a bunch of smugglers. We don’t even know how many of these kids… have been waylaid into sex trafficking." pic.twitter.com/t4KcWAieNW
— Joshua Dov Caplan (@joshdcaplan) June 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/WiredSources/status/1009822892387913728
Did you know:
There are 9 US consulates & one US embassy in Mexico where non US citizens can apply for asylum without ANY risk of being separated from their kids
Democrats would prefer to never mention this and act as if these families have no other options, to blame Trump
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 21, 2018