Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has confirmed that Major League Baseball is investigating two decidedly political tweets by a longtime umpire, reports ESPN. Rob Drake, who’s been a major league umpire since 1999 and full-time since 2010, made these two tweets that were deleted shortly thereafter. The account has since been deactivated.
The first, according to ESPN’s story:
Drake tweeted late Tuesday that he planned to buy an AR-15 rifle “because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!! #MAGA2020.”
The second:
“You can’t do an impeachment inquiry from the basement of Capital (cq) Hill without even a vote! What is going on in this country?”
For one, the guy needs to learn to use a spellchecker. But how stupid of him.
Nothing wrong with his 2nd tweet but his 1st is scary. This guy is willing to murder law enforcement, duly elected officials, etc., should Trump be removed from office after highly public trial on his offenses and votes by both parties?
Whatever happened to the “civilized” US where the rule of law is supposed to prevail, unlike banana state republics.
I think the fact he deleted his tweet and entire twitter account shows me that he had a momentary lapse of judgement and came to realize this was a bad move. I wouldn’t fired him.
Why will this idiot need an AR-15 if there’s an impeachment? To protect himself from the evil President Pence?
Seriously, does he think Democrats will start causing violence and he will have to protect himself? Or does he plan on killing a bunch of innocent people because they were mean to poor Donald?