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Amidst these revelations, a different kind of spectacle unfolded on ESPN’s airwaves. Sports analyst Stephen A. Smith, in a bizarre attempt at political punditry, claimed that the FBI's recent arrests in the gambling scandal were motivated by revenge from President Trump—an assertion so disconnected from reality that even Cash Patel, a former FBI director, called it “the dumbest thing he’s ever heard.”