President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss the red card given to Team USA’s Folarin Balogun during Wednesday night’s game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, an person familiar with the conversation told The Hill. Trump later cheered the reversal, calling it an “injustice.”

FIFA said its independent panel overturned the red card suspension for Monday’s game.

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    2 hours ago

    Unclear what Donny specifically tried to do, other than generally getting the player available for the next game. They didn’t overturn the Red or say there was a VAR protocol error, both of which would have been legitimate excuses that FIFA chose not to use.