Trump goes to bat for Roger Clemens' Hall of Fame candidacy ahead of committee vote

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President Donald Trump went to bat for legendary pitcher Roger Clemens one last time as the Era Committee will reveal who else will make the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Clemens is on the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot. Officials on the committee focus on players who have made primary contributions to the game since 1980. Clemens failed to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame through the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot.

The former New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox star is on the ballot with Barry Bonds, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela. Each voter on the 16-person committee can select up to three candidates, who will need 75% of the vote to get into Cooperstown.

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New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens throws a pitch in Game 2 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York on Oct. 22, 2000. (Robert Deutsch/USA Today/USA Today Network)

Trump backed Clemens in posts on Truth Social.

"Roger Clemens, who won 354 games, went through his own Witch Hunt. HE WAS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES!!! If he doesn’t get into the Hall of Fame, he should sue the hell out of Major League Baseball!" Trump wrote.

"It was the Obama DOJ (of course!) that viciously went after the great Roger Clemens. ROGER WAS FULLY ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES!!!"

Clemens fell short in 2022, receiving only 65.2% of the vote. He last pitched in an MLB game in 2007 during his second stint with the Yankees.

In 2008, Clemens found himself