Trump backs Clemens’ Hall of Fame bid, rejecting banned-substance allegations tied to MLB’s steroid era

Roger Clemens won 7 Cy Young Awards and pitched for New York Yankees teams that won back-to-back World Series titles. But Clemens’ vocation was yet defined by baseball’s steroid era.

Clemens past pitched successful a Major League Baseball (MLB) crippled successful 2007 during his 2nd stint with the Yankees. By 2008, helium recovered himself embroiled successful a national probe into the suspected usage of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by respective salient large league players. 

Clemens testified earlier Congress that helium did not instrumentality PEDs and was acquitted of the national complaint of lying to Congress. Clemens is present 1 of 8 Baseball Hall of Fame nominees selected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee. 

President Donald Trump has made it wide that helium believes Clemens should beryllium successful Cooperstown.

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President Donald Trump arrives astatine Yankee Stadium for a crippled betwixt the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers, Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

On the eve of the announcement of the newest database of inductees, Trump took to Truth Social to efficaciously cull accusations of Clemens’ erstwhile steroid use. "The lone crushed helium is not (in the Hall of Fame) is due to the fact that of rumors and innuendo, which were not proven," Trump wrote.

Trump besides pointed to Clemens' nickname, "The Rocket," saying "he earned" the moniker "very aboriginal successful his vocation due to the fact that of his blazing fastball, was conscionable arsenic ascendant earlier those erroneous allegations were leveled against him. I sincerely anticipation that the Committee uses its large judgement (Roger’s opponents ne'er proved a happening against him, and helium whitethorn person the champion pitching record, each told, successful the History of Baseball!), and the Baseball Commissioner has the Strength, Wisdom, and Power to bash the close thing, and enactment Roger Clemens successful The Baseball Hall of Fame, IMMEDIATELY!"

ROGER CLEMENS THANKS TRUMP FOR BASEBALL HALL OF FAME SUPPORT, HITS BACK AT CRITICS

Neither the MLB commissioner’s bureau nor the White House instantly responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

The Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee considers retired players whose eligibility to marque it to Cooperstown via a bulk ballot from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) has expired. The writers’ relation is liable for selecting precocious retired players.

Roger Clemens throws a transportation during Game 2 of the World Series astatine Yankee Stadium successful New York, Oct. 22, 2000. (Robert Deutsch/USA TODAY/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Clemens’ past accidental to beryllium listed connected the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot was successful 2022; that twelvemonth helium received conscionable implicit 65% of the vote. Players indispensable person astatine slightest 75% of the ballot to go enshrined successful Cooperstown.

Power-hitting outfielder Barry Bonds, whose historical vocation was besides tainted by accusations of PED use, is being considered this twelvemonth by the committee. Bonds besides avoided transgression charges successful a steroid probe. He has antecedently stated helium ne'er knowingly utilized immoderate banned substances.

Former Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens tosses a shot earlier the crippled betwixt the Astros and the Tampa Bay Rays astatine Minute Maid Park, Aug. 2, 2024, successful Houston. (Troy Taormina/USA TODAY Sports)

Clemens and Bonds were 2 of the high-profile names listed successful the Mitchell Report successful 2007. 

The study was authored by erstwhile U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, R-Maine, who conducted a monthslong probe into the suspected usage of quality maturation hormone and anabolic steroids.

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Trump has antecedently voiced enactment for Clemens’ Hall of Fame hopes. After Trump wrote successful a societal media station that determination was "no evidence" the retired pitcher was a steroid user, Clemens thanked the president for his support.

"I admit the love! DT knows much than anyone the fake quality that’s retired there," Clemens wrote connected X successful August. "Everyone has their agendas… I played the crippled to alteration my family’s absorption generationally and to WIN!"

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