White House’s World Cup Head Defends Trump Lobbying Fifa Over Red Card The intersection of sports, politics, and influence peddling is often messy, but rarely has it played out as crassly as in the White House's recent lobbying effort to get Fifa to lift the suspension of US player Folarin Balogun.
Andrew Giuliani, head of the World Cup taskforce, has been defending Donald Trump's efforts to intervene on behalf of his favorite player.
Giuliani's defense is based on a shaky premise: that Brazilian referee Raphael Claus had previously issued "irregular red cards" in a match fixing investigation by Brazil's senate.