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Stephen A. Smith continues to face backlash over his Donald Trump feedback.
Final week, Smith went viral when he appeared on Fox Information and defended Trump by saying there was some reality about Trump’s feedback on how black people can relate to his authorized troubles.
“As a lot as individuals could have been abhorred by Donald Trump’s assertion weeks in the past, speaking about how he’s listening to that Black of us discover him relatable due to what he’s going by means of is just like what black Individuals have gone by means of, he wasn’t mendacity, he was telling the reality.”
To start with, trump is GUILTY.
Second, he’s getting privileges Black individuals NEVER get for doing a lot much less.
Third, he’s on no account akin to our iconic leaders.@stephenasmith, that is essentially the most ignorant factor you’ve ever stated and that’s saying so much!pic.twitter.com/Dk0bpWIvrx
— Renee (@PettyLupone) April 20, 2024
Legendary SportsCenter anchor Keith Olbermann reacted to Smith’s feedback by tweeting a rant calling on ESPN to both hearth him or silence him for brazenly advocating for a Presidential candidate.
“So why is right this moment’s ESPN letting Smith do it? Why is he campaigning for Trump on Fox Information? ESPN should make him select advocating for a despot or conserving his job saying nothing significantly related about sports activities – not each. And I’d insist on the identical both/of if he have been campaigning for Biden”
WHY ESPN MUST EITHER SILENCE OR FIRE STEPHEN A. SMITH: Its longstanding coverage – no, you possibly can’t be a sportscaster on one station and an advocate for a presidential candidate on one other station – is true. I do know: I helped to writer it as a result of the day while you (or I) might straddle… pic.twitter.com/TKLrPCXmOH
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 23, 2024
Smith has since taken to Twitter to make clear his feedback after receiving backlash from the net group.
“Fairly a couple of of us have been offended as my phrases have been interpreted as associating help for Trump by the Black group with all of the authorized points he’s dealing with. For that, I sincerely apologize. I’m stating proper right here for the file that I used to be taken out of context.”
“Anyplace I seem, regardless of my subjectivity regarding what I really feel, remains to be going to be based mostly on details being introduced into the stratosphere. That’s who I’ve all the time been. It’s who I’ll all the time proceed to be. But it surely’s by no means exercised with malice on my coronary heart and positively by no means to assault or hurt the Black group, my group…Simply because my intent was innocent, doesn’t imply my phrases will hurt much less, and I do know that.”
