‘Man up’ and ‘stop crying’

O.J. offers up advice for Trump’s pal Roger Stone

When O.J. Simpson was approached in a Las Vegas parking lot this week, a tabloid reporter asked about President

Donald Trump’s imminent address to Congress.

“What do you think about your buddy’s State of the Union tonight?” a TMZ reporter asked. He demurred at first. Trump was a friend, he explained to TMZ. Simpson was even a guest at Trump’s second wedding in 1993, months before the gruesome double murder that would send Simpson to trial.

“I don’t know the president,” Simpson said. “I stay out of politics.”

But avoiding politics would be hard to avoid if Trump was impeached.

TMZ asked Simpson: Did the former NFL star think that could happen?

“If he keeps hanging around with people like that Roger Stone,” Simpson said, referring to Trump’s longestserving political adviser who was arrested last month and charged with seven counts, including lying to investigators, obstruction of justice and witness tampering.

Stone criticized the FBI raid, calling it an overreach with more force used in raids involving Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Guzman was captured amid deadly urban combat and bin Laden was shot twice in the head by a Navy SEAL before his corpse was dumped into the sea.

Simpson, a man with vast experience in the criminal justice system, pivoted his advice to Stone.

“Let me say this. You know, I got raided by the FBI in Miami,” Simpson said, an apparent reference to a 2001 drug investigation that did not result in charges.

Simpson added: “The FBI can be wrong, but to try and compare it to ‘El Chapo’ and bin Laden? Hey man, bin Laden was carried out in a bag, not walked out in handcuffs. So man up, stop crying.”