Trump says World Cup referee's red card call was 'horrible' but insists he left outcome to FIFA

Trump took credit for getting FIFA to review a red card issued against Folarin Balogun at the World Cup but said he did not demand an outcome.
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Trump took credit for getting FIFA to review a red card issued against Folarin Balogun at the World Cup but said he did not demand an outcome.
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Trump took credit for getting FIFA to review a red card issued against Folarin Balogun at the World Cup but said he did not demand an outcome.

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President Donald Trump on Monday took credit for getting FIFA to review a red card issued against the United States’ star forward Folarin Balogun at the World Cup but said he did not demand an outcome.“All I did was ask for a review,” Trump said when asked about it during an unrelated Oval Office...

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President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup. The president said he didn’t initially know what a red card was or what its consequences were, but when he learned it could keep star U.S. forward Folarin Balogun out of Monday’s knockout ...

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