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Top Pence aide calls NBA boycott ‘absurd’ and ‘silly’

Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, dismissed the significance Thursday of decisions by NBA players to not play games in protest over police violence against Black people following the shooting of Jacob Blake.