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Pete Buttigieg Trolled After Saying Kobe Bryant Played ‘On The Field’

Paul Bois
Pete Buttigieg Trolled After Saying Kobe Bryant Played ‘On The Field’
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Just when you thought Pete Buttigieg could not do anything else to further alienate his minority and working-class support, the mayor from Indiana remembered the ill-fated basketball star Kobe Bryant on Sunday for his impressive work “on the field” and “off the field.”

Speaking with Chris Wallace during a Fox News town hall on Sunday, the presidential candidate was asked to give his thoughts on Kobe Bryant’s tragic death, which reportedly happened in a helicopter crash. Though Buttigieg had a rather poignant take on the basketball star’s death, his philosophical ruminations were unraveled by associating Bryant with the wrong sport.

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