The Liberty Daily 
Following a day of controversy with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky disrespecting President Donald Trump, the Oval Office, and the nation, Trump ended the week with an incredible announcement on Truth Social:
Major League Baseball didn’t have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as “Charlie Hustle,” into the Baseball Hall of fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most of those who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME! Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING. He never betted against himself, or the other team. He had the most hits, by far, in baseball history, and won more games than anyone in sports history. Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!
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His framing of the situation is accurate. Rose is one of the greatest to ever play baseball but a petty feud with the wrong people in power in MLB prevented him from ever having his lifetime ban lifted. As President Trump noted, Rose’s sin was betting on the game he loved, though never betting in a way that could influence the outcome.
He played to win. He coached to win. He bet to win. The punishment simply never matched the crime.
In a world where violent criminals get second chances in sports, the fact that Pete Rose died while still banned from baseball is tragic.
