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Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:19 PM Jan 2021

Bobby Orr made headlines when he endorsed Donald Trump [View all]



Bobby Orr Was Part of the Problem. Now He Can Be Part of the Solution
The Canada-born Hall-of-Fame defenseman made headlines when he endorsed Donald Trump two months ago. Now it's time to repudiate the President and those stormed the Capitol.

KEN CAMPBELL23 MINUTES AGO

As former NHL defenseman Mark Fraser watched the assault on democracy unfold in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon – an assault that was both incited and enabled by a sitting President – his mind could not help but go back to his childhood hero. The first book report Mark Fraser ever did in school was on Jackie Robinson. The second was on Bobby Orr.

And until two months ago when Orr took a full-page ad out in the New Hampshire Union Leader endorsing Trump in his bid for a second term, Fraser also had a personally signed photo of Orr scoring his iconic Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1970 on the wall in his home in Ottawa. But he took that photo down Oct. 30, the day Orr sided with Trump and said, “That’s the kind of teammate I want.”

“I took it down because it hurt,” Fraser told TheHockeyNews.com. “After seeing how this President encouraged violence on peaceful protesters with tear gas so he could get a photo op, it just hurt to see my hero endorse that. You can support (Trump) or his party for any legitimate reason you want, obviously, but you can’t possibly say with any integrity that separating fact from fiction is what attracts you to Donald Trump. And that’s what hurts. It’s just really disheartening and discouraging from someone whom I’ve spent a lot of my life admiring.”

But as he watched from afar as Washington descended into a state of anarchy and chaos, Fraser went one step further. He was still so upset at Orr’s endorsement that he sent out the following Tweet:


https://www.si.com/hockey/news/bobby-orr-was-part-of-the-problem-now-he-can-be-part-of-the-solution
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