Jon Lovett
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15,055 appearances
44 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Sep
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I think it is obviously bad.
Like, well, for the Trump point of view, like it's not.
necessarily bad for him to advocate on behalf of his country.
You could imagine another president doing this in a way that just seemed less corrupt.
Keir Starmer apparently weighed in on the start time of the England-Mexico game because he was worried about that.
So I think mostly this is just really, really bad for FIFA.
It's par for the course for them because they're a terrible, corrupt organization.
In 2015, a bunch of people were indicted on $150 million in bribes and kickbacks related to the World Cup.
The former head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, was banned from soccer.
He's now on Twitter criticizing this decision.
So that's when it's getting a little weird.
But it's just impossible to separate this decision from the very longstanding, very weird, very corrupt relationship between Trump and Gianni Infantino.
Trump's a corrupt person.
We know that his one speed when he wants something is brute force.
So we don't know what happened to any of these calls, but we know that he got the outcome that he wanted.
No, no, it's not.
And like, for what it's worth, the New York Post had this reporting that U.S.
soccer was already preparing to fight the decision.
They were especially focused on the VAR system, the video review system, and that it was improperly used to make this call.
And they were preparing to appeal to something called the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
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