Former sports and far-left political commentator Keith Olbermann sparked outrage anew after he appeared to “hope” that former President Donald Trump would be assassinated in an X platform post.
Olbermann was referencing the Biden-Harris HQ X account flagging a clip of Trump stating that he had faced persecution worse than any president in history, including Abraham Lincoln.
“Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated,” the Biden campaign account posted on Saturday.
“There’s always the hope,” Olbermann wrote, linking to the post.
In response to Olbermann’s post, one account suggested that the commentator’s account should be “permanently suspended” for seemingly endorsing harm against Trump, the presumptive nominee for the 2024 Republican nomination, Fox News Digital reported. Trump is aiming to become only the second president, after Grover Cleveland, to win another White House term after losing a previous re-election bid.
Olbermann, a one-time sports broadcaster who was let go from ESPN and also failed at being a host on MSNBC, was savaged online after he attacked former collegiate champion swimmer-turned-women in sports advocate Riley Gaines in August 2023.
“Can you just address the reality and move past it?” Olbermann wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “You sucked at swimming. That’s why you lost.”
The failed broadcaster responded to an X post from Gaines in which she defended a “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which states an obvious and long-known biological fact that, on average, “males and females possess immutable biological differences.”
The measure was signed by Nebraska GOP Gov. Jim Pillen, the second governor to establish a “Women’s Bill of Rights,” telling residents on Wednesday that it is “common sense that men do not belong in women’s only spaces.”
Gaines herself led the charge against Olbermann.
“Ah, makes sense now why you got fired from ESPN,” she wrote on the platform.
“Your political bias blinds you and dismissive views like yours embolden men to change in front of us,” added former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan. “Why don’t you address the reality that women’s spaces are being invaded and many women are harmed by this narrative.”
Your political bias blinds you and dismissive views like yours embolden men to change in front of us. Why don’t you address the reality that women’s spaces are being invaded and many women are harmed by this narrative. https://t.co/jxWNTvYCEV
— Paula Scanlan (@PaulaYScanlan) August 31, 2023
