President Donald Trump is going to bat for Roger Clemens to make the Baseball Hall of Fame — despite
rampant speculation that he used steroids late in his career.
In
a post to Truth Social on Sunday afternoon, the president shared that he had just played golf with the 11-time All-Star pitcher and then stumped for him to make it to Cooperstown.
“He should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame, NOW!” Trump wrote. “People think he took drugs, but nothing was proven. He never tested positive, and Roger, from the very beginning, totally denies it. He was just as great before those erroneous charges were leveled at him. That rumor has gone on for years, and there has been no evidence whatsoever that he was a ‘druggie.'”
Clemens did indeed deny under oath to Congress that he used performance enhancing drugs. He was then charged with lying to Congress, but acquitted in 2012. Clemens’s ex-trainer,
Brian McNamee,
testified that he injected Clemens with steroids numerous times from 1998 to 2001.