Megan Rapinoe, a two-time World Cup champion and the 2019 FIFA player of the year, has never been shy about sharing her views on political and social-justice issues. So she didn’t hold back Tuesday when asked what she thought of last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol that briefly halted Congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election as president.
“It’s just striking how horrible it was and how insane it was,” she said during a 22-minute teleconference with reporters. “The climate in the country being such that we have our political leaders, our chief political leader, inciting an actual, real-life, murderous and deadly insurrection against his own government, against his own people, against his own party.