NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, a prominent critic of Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says a top Democratic senator told him President Biden is too “scared” to meet with him to discuss human rights. The Boston Celtics star, whose parents are Turkish, has called Erdogan the “Hitler of our century” for his crackdown on dissent. He also blasted Chinese President Xi Jinping as an “insecure tyrant” ahead of the Beijing Olympics. “I was actually having lunch in the Senate with one of the really, really big senators, and he was a Democrat too, and I asked him, I was like, ‘Listen, do you think President Biden knows my story?’ And the senator said, ‘Absolutely,'” the former NY Knicks star said in a podcast released this week. “And I asked him, I was like, ‘I have been trying to, you know, have a conversation with him since the day he took office. Why is he not accepting our invitation?’ And he’s like, ‘Listen, I understand he knows all the human rights violations and political prisoners in Turkey, but Turkey is still a NATO ally. And obviously, America doesn’t want to go to war with Turkey. And him, the president, meeting with you is pretty much a screw you to President Erdogan. So that’s why he is pretty much scared to have a conversation with you.'” “I was shocked,” Freedom said. “I was like, ‘So you tell me the most, I guess, the most powerful person in the world and most powerful house in the world are scared to meet with a 29-year-old NBA player? And he’s like, ‘unfortunately.'” Freedom added: “I know that they got our invitation because I have so many politician friends and unfortunately it’s just, I guess, it’s politics. But I feel like they should definitely more focus [sic] on the human rights part.” The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. NBA's Enes Kanter Freedom says Biden scared to meet him (nypost.com)
No, the most powerful person in the world has bigger things to worry about than a backup Center with an agenda. DD
Your title is wrong. It should read "Kantner claims some Dem Senator claims Biden is afraid to meet with him"
I wouldn’t when it comes to impeachment opinions…but flip flopping Turley’s your guy and it says a lot about you, self proclaimed “Conservative Democrat.”
aren't you mister two sides of every coin? here, you'll like this one The noble and needful philosophical tradition of bothsidesism (no, really) A call for equanimity in a polarized time https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1009757/a-defense-of-both-sides-thinking-about-politics
I call it the middle where I stand, but there are always two sides to almost everything. I'm a true independent...I wish the best for status quo Joe same as I did for Trump his first 2 years because my loyalty is with my country and not a political party or playing devil's advocate on a basketball forum.
Awww, you sound almost unresentful... Get off the bullshit and call things for what they are. I swear you were better than this a couple years ago...
