Curt Schilling tweets his support for those who carried out attack on U.S. Capitol on Wednesday
Curt Schilling, the former baseball great, turned failed gaming entrepreneur, turned disgraced ESPN host, turned Twitter personality pivoted to his latest hobby: volunteer surrogate of a white supremacist rebellion.
The outspoken ultra-conservative right-hander tweeted his support of Wednesday’s right-wing coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol building.
Schilling began by slamming anti-police violence protests as an example of true criminality gone unpunished, despite the frequent arrests and use of suppressive and sometimes deadly force.
“You cowards sat on your hands, did nothing while liberal trash looted rioted and burned for air Jordan’s and big screens,” Schilling wrote, slamming anti-police violence protests like the demonstrations that emerged as a response to the Minneapolis police officers that killed George Floyd while he was in custody.
“Sit back, [shut up] and watch folks start a confrontation for [expletive] that matters like rights, democracy and the end of [government] corruption,” Schilling then wrote of the mob attack, which resulted in five deaths — including a Capitol Police officer, a protester who was shot to death by Capitol Police and three others who died during the rioting.
Participants of the violent attack could be seen waving Confederate and Trump flags inside the Capitol, while another man was seen wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt.
Schilling, who is in his eighth year of eligibility for being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), received 60.9% of the vote. A player needs to reach a 75% threshold for induction, a barrier Schilling believes he would have crossed were he not a Republican.
“Absolutely,” Schilling said in 2015, via Boston.com. “When human beings do something, anything, there’s bias and prejudice. Listen, nine percent of the voters did not vote for Pedro [Martinez]. There’s something wrong with the process and some of the people in the process when that happens.
“I don’t think that it kept me out or anything like that but I do know there are guys who probably will never vote for me because of the things I said or did. That’s the way it works.”
The 54-year-old backer of the latest eruption of a reanimated white supremacist movement was a good pitcher a long time ago. He won 216 games over 20 seasons with the Phillies, D-backs, Red Sox and Orioles, was a six-time All-Star and won three World Series titles. He’ll find out on Jan. 26 how many votes he picked up this time around.
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