UCLA players' release from China secured before Trump got involved: report
Source: The Hill
President Trump reportedly had less impact than he claimed on the release of three UCLA basketball players detained in China last year, according to a new report Friday.
LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley were arrested and detained on shoplifting charges in November while in China for a game.
Trump took credit for intervening and negotiating the players’ release, but a new report from ESPN finds that the charges had been dropped and the players’ passports returned two days before the White House told them it was involved.
A source told ESPN that the players' return flights were already secured by the time White House chief of staff John Kelly called to tell the players that the White House was getting involved.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/376497-ucla-players-release-from-china-was-already-secured-before-trump-got
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Trump then fired back, saying
“I should have left them in jail!" ... with Trump also calling Ball an “ungrateful fool”
and a “poor man’s version of Don King.”
So Presidential ! 
