"He fessed up to it. ... It was an impulse thing, a bad decision at a bad time, that's all it was for an 18-year-old who never done anything wrong," says LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball https://t.co/NE3kictbKv pic.twitter.com/ZGobFZ6Aug
— CNN (@CNN) November 21, 2017
In the aftermath of his son being released from jail in China, LaVar Ball made an appearance to discuss President Trump. While his son, LiAngelo Ball was in jail for theft, Trump says he talked to the president of China and lobbied to have Ball and two friends released. When that happen, Trump called LaVar "very ungrateful" for not saying thanks.
"If I helped I don't have to walk around saying 'well you know I helped you now give me some love,'" LaVar Ball said on CNN after pointing out that he doesn't know for sure if Trump actually helped. Watch the clips below.
LaVar Ball, the father of a basketball player freed from China who also recently ran afoul of President Trump on Twitter, talks with @ChrisCuomo: "I don't have to go around saying thank you to everybody" https://t.co/Y1HRSycqyD pic.twitter.com/a7in4bLogG
— CNN (@CNN) November 21, 2017
"If you help, you shouldn't have to say anything," says LaVar Ball, father of UCLA basketball player LiAngelo Ball, adding, "Let him do his political affairs and let me handle my son, and let's just stay in our lane" https://t.co/CzyFZ2YTO1 pic.twitter.com/1XiXEg6Pl4
— CNN (@CNN) November 21, 2017