On Friday, the president said that he spoke to Kanye West about rapper A$AP Rocky, who is currently being held in a Swedish prison without charges following a street fight. Trump later said he called the prime minister of Sweden who assured him the rapper would be “treated fairly.”
Just had a very good call with @SwedishPM Stefan Löfven who assured me that American citizen A$AP Rocky will be treated fairly. Likewise, I assured him that A$AP was not a flight risk and offered to personally vouch for his bail, or an alternative….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2019
….Our teams will be talking further, and we agreed to speak again in the next 48 hours!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2019
Swedish PM tells @realDonaldTrump that his government “neither can nor will try to influence the judicial process” in regard to #ASAPRocky case.
Statement from spokesman for Swedish PM: pic.twitter.com/qpINgrG4Ft
— Simon Cullen (@Simon_Cullen) July 20, 2019
Trump said he has been called by “many, members of the African-American community, friends of mine,” with requests to help A$AP Rocky, who he says has tremendous support not only from African-Americans but from “everybody in this country, because we’re all one.”
