Did White House Know Tom Brady Would Be Implicated In Deflategate Cheating Report?

Posted by | May 6, 2015 18:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher



Two weeks ago, the New England Patriots visited the White House to celebrate their victory in Super Bowl XLIX with President Obama, an event that had a lot of White House reporters wondering how President Obama would handle the under-investigation cheating scandal that had largely faded from the limelight. The White House had staked out a position by standing with the Jackie Robinson All-Stars in their cheating scandal because those were children who were undermined by the actions of adults, an excuse that wouldn’t hold water for the Patriots.

As it turned out, President Obama handled the scandal by making several joking references to it during the event, but the biggest elephant in the room was the one that wasn’t there:

“I usually tell a bunch of jokes at these events, but with the Patriots in town, I was worried that 11 out of 12 of them would fall flat. (Laughter.) All right, all right, all right. That whole story got blown a little out of proportion.”

Quarterback Tom Brady was a no-show to the event, citing, at the time, a “family commitment.”

Fast-forward two weeks, though, and that absence takes on a different cast…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

7 responses to Did White House Know Tom Brady Would Be Implicated In Deflategate Cheating Report?

  1. robert May 6th, 2015 at 18:51

    since brady didnt deflate the balls nothing is going to happen to him. I cant say the rest of the staff will say the same

    • tracey marie May 6th, 2015 at 19:43

      Yet he knew and that makes him just as guilty of cheating.

      • robert May 6th, 2015 at 19:49

        doesnt matter if brady knew its the people who arranged to have the air removed

        • tracey marie May 6th, 2015 at 19:53

          Yes it does, he was obligated to speak out and stop the cheating. He went with it and denied all knowledge afterwards.

          • robert May 7th, 2015 at 07:54

            at first tom probably didn’t know and speaking out would only raise more questions that tom couldn’t answer because he wasn’t there when or if the air was taken out of the balls

  2. William May 7th, 2015 at 10:11

    Thanks Obama

  3. craig7120 May 7th, 2015 at 10:27

    With the White House invading Texas right now do you honestly think they care if Brady had deflated balls?
    Btw dibs on killians, the bbq joint

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