Hill, who is set to return to ESPN on Monday after a two-week suspension, said she isn’t upset with ESPN for the punishment.
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I want people to understand this: There was never any restrictions placed on me, about Twitter. Never. So, I’ll be back on Twitter, and I’ll be my usual self.
[Questioned if she was treated fairly by ESPN]
So, here’s how this works: It doesn’t really matter what I think. It matters to people, but here’s the reality: ESPN acted what they felt was right, and, you know, I don’t have any argument or quibble with that. I would tell people, absolutely, after my Donald Trump tweets, I deserved that suspension. I deserved it. Like, absolutely. I violated the policy; I deserved that suspension.
Going forward we’ll be in a good, healthy place. It will be fine and I’m looking forward to it.
[Questioned if she has a message for Donald Trump]
I think he already knows how I feel about him, not that he’s checking, not that he cares.
The only thing I’ll ever apologize for is, I put ESPN in a bad spot. I’ll never take back what I said. I put them in a bad spot, and that’s the truth of it. I regret the position I put them in. I regret, a lot of the people I work with, the position we put our show in. I’ll never take back what I said. So you can take that to mean what it means."
ESPN announced Hill’s suspension on Oct. 9.
Hill, who co-hosts “The Six” with Michael Smith, called President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter, and said he was “the most ignorant, offensive president of [her] lifetime."
She also suggested that fans should boycott the Dallas Cowboys’ advertisers, after owner Jerry Jones threatened to bench players who did not stand during the national anthem.
Hill told TMZ that she loves ESPN, but still plans to speak her mind on Twitter.
