All that rage tweeting directed at La Var Ball? I think Trump was trying to convince HIMSELF

[CatWoman]

that he played a major role in the release of the three basketball players:

President Trump has suggested that he saved three American college basketball players, who had been detained in China for shoplifting, from prison terms as long as a decade.

But experts say the players for the U.C.L.A. team, who were accused of stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China, probably would have been released even if Mr. Trump had not raised the case with President Xi Jinping during a visit this month to Beijing.

Shoplifting is considered a relatively minor crime in China, and foreigners convicted of minor crimes are often deported rather than given prison sentences.

“It’s nonsense,” Fu Hualing, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, said of Mr. Trump’s assertion that his intervention was solely responsible for the athletes’ release. “I would be surprised if they were even prosecuted.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/world/asia/china-ucla-human-rights.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1

[dalton99a]

1. "Foreigners convicted of minor crimes are often deported rather than given prison sentences"

Of course, Trump was full of shit as usual

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Donnie just keeps on his

Racist path.

[world wide wally]

3. His fucking job is to speak up for other Americans

Now he wants a fuckng medal for doing his job?

[proud patriot]

4. This has been my argument from the begining

Thanks my friend

[CatWoman]

7. Hi PP

thanks

[George II]

5. They probably would have been released sooner if he wasn't in the area being an ass.....

...they probably kept the players a few extra days just to bust his and our balls.

[maddiemom]

6. Not exactly Otto Warmbier (sic) and North Korea.