{"id":89735,"date":"2017-11-20T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89735"},"modified":"2017-11-20T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:26:25","slug":"trump-tweets-that-he-should-have-left-basketball-players-in-chinese-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89735","title":{"rendered":"Trump tweets that he should have left basketball players in Chinese jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;I Should Have Left Them In Jail&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams UCLA Player&#8217;s Parents Indignation<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>A clearly frustrated President\u00a0<strong>Trump raged over Twitter this afternoon at the father of a UCLA basketball player who downplayed Trump\u2019s importance in getting his son released<\/strong>\u00a0from shoplifting charges in China&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/932303108146892801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/932303108146892801\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-explicit-timestamp=\"12:42 PM - Nov 19, 2017\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded is-deciderHtmlWhitespace\" cite=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/932303108146892801\" data-tweet-id=\"932303108146892801\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand u-floatRight\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-shrink\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a reminder,<strong>\u00a0LaVar&#8217;s son, LiAngelo, and two other players were arrested and accused of shoplifting from a Louis Vuitton store while the UCLA basketball team was on a trip to China\u00a0<\/strong>for its season-opening game.<\/p>\n<p>The players<strong>\u00a0faced potential jail sentences<\/strong>\u00a0for the charge, but Trump reportedly spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping about resolving the situation. The players were released, and landed in the United States last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump took credit for their release, and questioned in a tweet whether the players would thank him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/19\/20171119_ball1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/19\/20171119_ball1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The players subsequently held a press conference last week and\u00a0<strong>apologized for the incident and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/360525-ucla-basketball-players-thank-trump-apologize-for-actions-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thanked Trump<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/361110-trump-i-should-have-left-ucla-basketball-players-in-jail\">as The Hill reports<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/21452594\/lavar-ball-downplays-us-president-donald-trump-role-liangelo-ball-release-china\">ESPN on Friday asked LaVar Ball<\/a>, the outspoken father of LiAngelo and Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, about Trump\u2019s role in bringing his son back to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/19\/20171119_ball2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-19\/i-should-have-left-them-jail-trump-slams-ucla-players-parents-indignation\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-19\/i-should-have-left-them-jail-trump-slams-ucla-players-parents-indignation<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I Should Have Left Them In Jail&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams UCLA Player&#8217;s Parents Indignation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}