ESPN disavows Jemele Hill's tweets calling President Trump a 'white supremacist'
by By Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune
Sep 12, 2017
3 minutes
ESPN on Tuesday issued a statement disavowing host Jemele Hill's tweets calling President Donald Trump "a white supremacist," "a bigot" and "unqualified and unfit to be president."
"The comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the president do not represent the position of ESPN," the Disney-owned sports media giant said via its media relations department's Twitter account. "We have addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate."
Beyond the statement, it was not clear Tuesday if Hill would
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