Trump claims he’s the reason NFL owners won’t hire Colin Kaepernick

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President Trump claimed at a rally in Louisville on Monday evening that National Football League owners are afraid to pick up San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick because they fear Trump’s rebuke.

“And you know, your San Francisco quarterback, I’m sure nobody ever heard of him,” Trump said at the Kentucky rally. “But there was an article today, it was reported, that NFL owners don’t want to pick him up because they don’t want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump.”

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