America First Legal Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Donald Trump’s former political advisor Stephen Miller, has petitioned the DOJ to require NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the NBA itself to register as agents of the Chinese Communist Party.
The move comes after the NBA has been subjected to a barrage of criticism for behavior apparently intended to appease China. When one NBA general manager posted a tweet in solidarity with Hong Kong, which has seen its tradition of civil liberties dismantled by the Chinese government, it was soon deleted. The NBA jumped into damage-control mode as games were taken off Chinese state television. When Enes Kanter Freedom, an NBA player, began to speak out publicly about the Uyghur genocide, he was allegedly blackballed.
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