{"id":574649,"date":"2026-03-30T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:02:08","slug":"bernie-bro-who-ghosted-trump-warns-ufc-fighters-leave-politics-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/574649\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Bro who ghosted Trump warns UFC fighters \u2018leave politics alone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI beat Chiesa in his most high-profile fight in the first round,\u201d Lee wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MoTownPhenom\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cHe got a hero\u2019s send off in the UFC, fought another retiring fighter in his hometown, mom and wife and everybody there to watch his life story. My last fight in UFC was on the prelim of an Apex Card during Covid against an undefeated up-and-coming Russian. Chiesa tried to fight me in the locker room before the fight I didn\u2019t say a word. Cold game fam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lee (20-9) also dropped five of his final six UFC fights and got submitted in three of those losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI know exactly when I went wrong in the UFCs eyes,\u201d Lee added. \u201cAfter I won my fight at MSG in 2019 they told me Trump wanted to meet. I snuck into the crowd and left the building. Then I met with Bernie Sanders a week later and did a whole speech for him. At that point I was dead in the water. I was told this. It don\u2019t have nothing to do with Chiesa. Let it be a lesson to any young athletes, leave that politics sh*t alone and don\u2019t f*ck with the Church\u2019s money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI beat Chiesa in his most high-profile fight in the first round,\u201d Lee wrote on Twitter. \u201cHe got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-574649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}