President Donald Trump helped turn the NFL’s national anthem protests last year into a lightning-rod political issue, another wedge driven into a sharply divided electorate.
And according to testimony given by some NFL owners as part of the process in a grievance filed by former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Mr. Trump loomed large over the NFL discussions over the anthem protests, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
“This is a very winning, strong issue for me,” Mr. Trump told Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in a phone call, Mr. Jones said in a deposition. “Tell everybody, you can’t win this one.