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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy on Monday called on President Donald Trump to condemn a UFC fighter's false insult against former first lady Michelle Obama.

The vocal Trump supporter said he found the comments from Josh Hokit on Sunday night at the White House lawn inappropriate.

"There was one moment I do think Trump has to denounce and anybody associated with it has to denounce and that's that crazy fighter guy — I don't even have his name up here — but he won the fight. He took the microphone and he made a derogatory comment about Michelle Obama," Portnoy said....

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a Donald Trump supporter who recently bemoaned losing some $20 million in the tanking stock market, told CNN's Dana Bash that he'll stick by the GOP until the midterms.

Portnoy, who sold his wildly successful site and now discusses sports and culture on his podcasts, is worth as much as $150 million.

"This is who I voted for and time is going to bear it out," Portnoy told Bash. He added that Trump was playing "an extremely high risk" game of poker with the current economic situation. ...