Major League Baseball investigating umpire Rob Drake's tweet calling for civil war

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if Trump is impeached

Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY

Major League Baseball is looking into a now-deleted tweet from umpire Rob Drake warning of a civil war if president Donald Trump is impeached.

According to a copy of the tweet obtained by ESPN, Drake tweeted that he planned to buy an assault rifle "because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!! #MAGA2020"."

MLB said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports that the league became aware of the tweet Wednesday and is now investigating the matter.

Drake has been an umpire in the majors since 1999 and was assigned to postseason games in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015.

The Twitter account was switched to private mode Wednesday night, but USA TODAY Sports reviewed other tweets from the account before the change was made.

Messages included a claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and a tweet to Hillary Clinton calling her an &quot expletive) liar," demanding the truth about "#benghazzi."



https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/10/23/rob-drake-mlb-umpire-trump/4078389002/

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He seems nice.

[redstateblues]

1. You're out!

[Mr. Ected]

2. He'll be an ex-umpire before Spring Training 2020

But only because he's so stupid he can't spell "Civil".

[Chickensoup]

3. Please, please someone

Wake me up from this nightmare.
Where was all that shit hiding.

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5. They were stewing in the own hateful juices for 8 years, outraged that "that awful Negro" was

POTUS. It's so sickening.

[CanonRay]

4. American cities are all liberal

He'll never be in a MLB stadium again

[lunasun]

6. I hope he does not threaten anyone with violence if let go from mlb