Hateful tweet about Stacey Abrams costs university football coach his job
Neil Vigdor, New York Times
Jan. 8, 2021
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An assistant football coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga lost his job after smearing Stacey Abrams and the state of Georgia in a Twitter post that perpetuated unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, university officials said Thursday.
The coach, Chris Malone, was in his second season as an assistant and offensive line coach for the Mocs, according to a biography that was removed from the university’s athletics website.
Malone made the disparaging comments about Abrams, a former gubernatorial candidate and onetime Democratic House leader in Georgia, on Tuesday night after the runoff elections for the U.S. Senate in Georgia races won by Democrats that will give them control of the Senate.