Sportswriter Kevin Blackistone: ‘This Country with the Trump Administration Is Unfit to Host Any Global Sporting Event’

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BLACKISTONE: “Well, it’s been a stain that’s not going to go away. And if the U.S. is fortunate to beat Belgium this evening, it’s going to be with an asterisk on that win because that’s what Donald Trump has done. He has stained this entire — this entire event. Look, I said before the World Cup came here, after it was certain to be here, after it started, I wrote it. This country with the Trump Administration is unfit to host any global sporting event, given its unethical and immoral treatment of our foreign neighbors and citizens. And we’ve seen it play out throughout this entire World Cup, from a referee who was not allowed to do his job here because of his nationality, to the way the Iranian team has been treated, as if they’re some sort of terrorist cell. And now you have — and now you have this. You know, I said that, you know, we often say the game respects game. Well, corruption respects corruption too.”