full content of his statement<\/a>, as posted by Jordan Raanan of ESPN:<\/p>\n\u201cThis was a unique opportunity. You know, being asked and given the opportunity to introduce the President of the United States, you know, my thinking was pretty simple. And the fact of, you know, I\u2019ve always loved this country. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have extended family members who have fought in wars. I have two uncles who have retired from the Air Force Academy, and served themselves. And I have a great grandfather who served as Secretary of Treasury at some point. So the president position has always been a position that I have always respected, regardless of political affiliation, regardless of political party, and my intentions were just that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also understand in this world, politics can be a sensitive matter, a sensitive topic. I also understand that I am the quarterback of the New York Giants, and that involves a lot of responsibility. It\u2019s under a limelight, under a microscope, and there\u2019s a lot that comes with that, and it\u2019s been something that I\u2019ve embraced. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve loved being here. I love the city of New York. I love the city [sic] of New Jersey, the people that I\u2019ve met here. It\u2019s just been a really amazing experience, and there\u2019s not another place that I\u2019d rather be. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost importantly, people in this organization, my teammates, the staff, coaches, everybody that has a hand . . . you name it. You know, I\u2019ve loved making relationships with them and growing connections. And that\u2019s kind of a person that I am. I\u2019m a connector. I love making relationships with people. I love hearing everybody\u2019s stories. And being somebody who, you know, people can rely on to be there for them. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost importantly, I can honestly say that I love every single one of my brothers, my teammates on this team regardless of politics, regardless of religious beliefs, regardless of anything that may be different between us. Like, I love them and they know exactly what kind of person that I am, who comes into the facility every day. . . . I lay my body on the line for my guys each and every week. And it\u2019s from the connections that we build, the love that we have for each other. I\u2019ve been somebody who\u2019s always respected the different perspectives that people may have, the backgrounds they come from \u2014 I understand that, you know, we have such a cool opportunity as people, to be in the locker room where it\u2019s a melting pot of people from everywhere and you get to be together. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the connections that we build are special, because, you know, we\u2019re able to have vulnerable conversations, we\u2019re able to learn from each other, to support each other irrespective of the color of our skin. And, you know, we have a real brotherhood. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of honest conversations with each other as a team, and I\u2019d like to keep those things private between me and my teammates and just everything that\u2019s been said. But, you know, I love these guys and going forward, I can\u2019t wait for what more we have to grow, you know, the culture of this team, our brotherhood, and obviously we understand the biggest goal is to be the best team that we can be, to put ourselves in the best position to succeed, to chase a championship, to be the best players for Coach Harbs and all the coaches here. And, you know, that\u2019s our focus going forward each and every day. And can\u2019t wait to continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether that ends it remains to be seen. Others will surely be asked about the situation, including Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Friday, Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced President Donald Trump at a rally in New York. This Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-672895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}