{"id":2215564,"date":"2024-04-08T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-yankees-player-mariano-rivera-endorses-his-friend-trump-for-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:44:32","slug":"retired-yankees-player-mariano-rivera-endorses-his-friend-trump-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-yankees-player-mariano-rivera-endorses-his-friend-trump-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Yankees player Mariano Rivera backs Trump for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretired-yankees-player-mariano-rivera-endorses-his-friend-trump-for-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2215564&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Retired Yankees player Mariano Rivera recently endorsed former President Donald Trump for the 2024 election. Rivera expressed his support in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-five-states-to-stop-counting-on-election-night-is-absolutely-unprecedented-sidney-powell-lays-out-evidence-of-rampant-election-fraud-in-latest-interview-audio\/\" title=\"\u201cFor Five States to Stop Counting on Election Night Is Absolutely Unprecedented\u201d \u2013 Sidney Powell Lays Out Evidence of Rampant Election Fraud in Latest Interview (Audio)\">radio interview<\/a>, highlighting his friendship with Trump and\u200d emphasizing the importance \u2063of\u2062 voting for \u200dthe candidate he believes is best for the\u2063 country. Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-lesko-reissues-call-for-special-counsel-to-probe-hunter-biden\/\" title=\"Rep. Lesko reissues call for special counsel to probe Hunter Biden\">growing list<\/a> of endorsements includes Rivera, adding to the anticipation of the upcoming \u200celection.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> has netted another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-ag-paxton-not-backing-down-on-2020-election-audits\/\" title=\"Texas AG Paxton not backing down on 2020 election audits\">endorsement ahead<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024<\/a> presidential election, this time from retired New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/yankees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Yankees<\/a> player Mariano Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/baseball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>baseball<\/a> player was asked about the current state of the world and if he believed that Trump should return to the White House in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/wabcradio.com\/episode\/mariano-rivera-makes-his-debut-on-sid-friends-in-the-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"interview\">interview<\/a> with radio host Sid Rosenberg. Rivera agreed that Trump should be president again, arguing that he is not going \u201cfor the Right or the Left\u201d but instead would vote for whoever is doing \u201cthe right thing for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump, he\u2019s my friend,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cI can\u2019t deny that. I will tell that to anyone. Before he was the president, he was my friend. Because of that, I\u2019m going to vote for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Donald Trump shakes hands with former New York Yankees baseball pitcher Mariano Rivera during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rivera in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rivera, who retired from the Yankees in 2013, had been <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/medaloffreedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Trump in 2019<\/a>, which he described as \u201can amazing moment.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The interview in which Rivera spoke favorably about Trump was shared on Sunday by the former president on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a>, Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-says-cia-determined-data-from-former-clinton-lawyer-was-user-created-not-technically-plausible\/\" title=\"Durham Says CIA Determined Data From Former Clinton Lawyer Was \u2018User-Created,\u2019 Not \u2018Technically Plausible\u2019\">presumptive presidential nominee<\/a> for the Republican Party, has taken a swing at winning over sports fans ahead of the 2024 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2957125\/trump-mingles-with-golf-superstars-at-liv-golf-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>visiting an LIV Golfing event<\/a> at the Trump National Doral Miami hotel on Sunday. The former president and his son, Eric Trump, attended the event where LIV Golf icons Bubba Watson, Anthony Kim, and Bryson DeChambeau were among those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Trump raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2956769\/trump-hauls-in-over-50-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>more than $50 million<\/a> at an event in Palm Beach, Florida. It comes after Trump brought in almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2950953\/money-bank-trump-rnc-announce-fundraising-haul-war-chest-fears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$66 million<\/a> last month, compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2956468\/biden-brings-in-massive-90-million-haul-in-march-and-has-192-million-on-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$90 million<\/a> that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> hauled in.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Yankees star Mariano Rivera endorses Donald Trump for the 2024 election. In a recent radio interview, Rivera shared his support for Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, adding another name to the list of endorsements for the former president&#8217;s potential run in the upcoming election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2215565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP19259712042805-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP19259712042805-1024x682.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}