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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

News Alert: ESPN in political hot seat after host's Trump remarks

 
 
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ESPN in political hot seat after host's Trump remarks
ESPN has earned the ire of both conservatives and the White House after one of its on-air personalities called President Trump a white supremacist and attributed his election to racism.

The sports media giant struggled to distance itself from anchor Jemele Hill, an African-American woman who co-hosts a "SportsCenter" spin-off called "SC6 with Michael and Jemele," after she unloaded on Trump and his supporters as racists and white supremacists in a string of tweets.

Speaking from the White House on Wednesday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the remarks “outrageous” and said ESPN should consider the comments a “firable offense.”
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