LF: Trump Calls for Reinstatement of Joe Paterno Statue (& Pedophilia cover-ups)

Title: Trump Calls for Reinstatement of Joe Paterno Statue (& Pedophilia cover-ups)
Source: The Wall Street Journal
URL Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/ ... atement-of-joe-paterno-statue/
Published: Apr 14, 2016
Author: Beth Reinhard
Post Date: 2016-04-14 21:13:21 by Hondo68
Keywords: covering up, sex abuse, of young boys
Views: 1624
Comments: 12

Late head football coach was fired in 2011 amid the Jerry Sandusky scandal

A miniature version of the Joe Paterno statue that many alumni want restored on campus is for sale at Rapid Transit Sports in State College for just under $100. Photo: Kris Maher/The Wall Street Journal

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Penn State should resurrect the statue of late head football coach Joe Paterno, who was accused of covering up a colleague’s sex abuse of young boys.

Campaigning in Pittsburgh, about 140 miles west of the public university, Mr. Trump vowed to “bring back” jobs in the coal and steel industries when he abruptly pivoted to Mr. Paterno.

“How’s Joe Paterno?” Mr. Trump asked of the coach, who died in in 2012. “We gonna bring that back. How ’bout that whole deal?”

Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said he was referring to the bronze statue that was removed in 2012. She did not respond to follow-up questions from The Journal about the sex abuse case.

A special investigating counsel led by former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Louis Freeh said Mr. Paterno and three former university administrators conspired to conceal the behavior of Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator.

Mr. Paterno was fired days after the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office in November 2011 charged Mr. Sandusky with having molested boys for more than a decade. Mr. Paterno died within three months, of lung cancer, at 85.

Mr. Sandusky, who has maintained his innocence, was convicted in 2012 of abusing 10 young boys over more than a decade and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. Some of the charges have been dropped against the school administrators, who have denied any wrongdoing.

Well, I guess Trump, in his finite wisdom, thinks he will pick up some votes from this diarrhea of mouth. I realize that a large number of PA citizens are football fanatics. But I am sure that for every vote he gains on this, he will lose many more.

This was a really, really dumb ass move! My wife stated that it will make a lot of people think Trump is a pedophile. He should have never got into this! Really, really dumb ass move!