Donald Trump asked a Pittsburgh crowd ‘How’s Joe Paterno?’ The former football coach died in 2012.
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Trump said invoking Paterno, who died in 2012. For the Win reports he asked the crowd gathered there, “How’s Joe Paterno?”. Right? How about that – how about that whole – how about that whole deal? Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is scheduled to host a rally in Pennsylvania’s “Steel City” Wednesday night just after taping a town hall event with Fox Network’s Sean Hannity. And since Paterno was sacked in light of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, it’s baffling that a politician would want to bring up his name. Trump promised to bring that back, and in this case, the that was a dead man.
The jury in Sandusky’s trial heard that a coaching assistant had witnessed him sexually abusing a boy ten years earlier and provided Paterno with a immediate but vague account of what he had seen.
The Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent Daniel Dale tweeted: “Donald Trump in Pittsburgh: “How’s Joe Paterno”.
But even with that, there’s the fact that Trump was pandering to Penn State fans in Pittsburgh, which is about 140 miles away from the school, has its own major college football program and isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of Nittany Lion fervor. He called the political system unfair and said the rules “are stacked against me”.
A Quinnipiac University Poll from 2015 found that about 59 percent of Pennsylvania’s adults would like the Paterno statue returned to a visible spot on Penn State’s campus. Pittsburgh, Three Rivers Rising Tide, The Fourth Wave, and Fossil Free Pitt will also be protesting Trump’s visit in Oakland. [Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images] News outlets indicated that Trump’s Pittsburgh audience was “puzzled” and “baffled” over the question “How’s Joe Paterno?” as the once popular coach has been deceased for over four years.
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Yudichak said, as a Penn State graduate, he has devoted a lot of his time in the state senate on behalf of the university. “Trump’s hateful campaign, targeting the Muslim people, Latino communities, in attempting to divide and attack so many, has instead resulted in a deepening of the understanding of the commonalities that exist between different oppressed communities”, Goel says.
