NFL players’ union teamed up with Soros to fund leftist advocacy groups
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Even before its feud over the national anthem with President Trump, the NFL Players Association wasn’t on the same political team as many of its fans, judging from its contributions to leftist advocacy groups.
Tax documents released by 2ndVote show the NFLPA donated $5,000 in 2015 to the Center for Community Change Action, a group active in the anti-Trump resistance and bankrolled by a host of liberal foundations, including top Democratic donor George Soros’s Foundation for Open Society.
A member of the AFL-CIO, the NFLPA also contributed in 2013 and 2015 to Working America, the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate, which Open Secrets said spent $1 million in 2016 to defeat Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence left an NFL game Sunday after several players took a knee during the national anthem as part of a broad protest against racial injustice and police brutality.
Shortly after several San Francisco 49ers players knelt during their game against the Indianapolis Colts, Pence announced he had left the game.
“I left today’s Colts game because President Trump and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence said in a statement.
Working America has since mobilized against the Republican tax-cut framework, denouncing it as the “Trump tax scam.”
The NFLPA contributed $5,000 in 2014 to Jobs with Justice, another pro-union group backed by Soros, and $5,000 in 2013 to the progressive Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
The NFLPA donations from 2013, 2014 and 2015 were made before Mr. Trump was elected.
The two had a Kodak moment, doing his famed bicep kiss, otherwise known as the “Kaepernick.”
“I got the opportunity to meet one of the greatest women in the world, the first lady @first_Obama and even got her #Kaepernicking,” the NFL star wrote on Instagram.
FLOTUS and the quarterback were in a meeting and joined fans striking the signature pose which rose to fame last season when Kaepernick lead his team to Superbowl XLVII against the Baltimore Ravens.
First lady Michelle Obama (R) dances with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick during a debut of a school exercise program February 28, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama unveiled a new initiative called “Let’s Move Active Schools” to help schools create a physical activity programs for students.
