{"id":504801,"date":"2026-01-04T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:11:14","slug":"phillies-legend-facing-drug-charges-just-days-after-turning-on-president-donald-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504801\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies legend facing drug charges just days after turning on President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Philadelphia Phillies legend Lenny Dykstra is back in the news just days after making headlines for turning on Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania State Police said that Dykstra, 62, was a passenger in a 2015 GMC Siera that was pulled over on New Year\u2019s Day in Pike County. Police said they stopped the truck \u201cfor motor vehicle code violations,\u201d and that Dykstra \u201cwas found to be in possession of narcotics and narcotic related equipment\/paraphernalia,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/lenny-dykstra-facing-drug-charges-following-traffic-stop-police-say\/ar-AA1Tu1hi?ocid=BingNewsVerp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:per USA Today.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">per USA Today. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dykstra\u2019s lawyer, Matthew Blit, told The Associated Press that the ex-All-Star \u201cwas not accused of being under the influence of a substance at the scene.\u201d USA Today said that the incident report from the stop said there were \u201cCharges to be filed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dykstra, who was once a Trump supporter, made news last week when he snapped after the president had a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDonald Trump is compromised,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cJust calling it like I see it, as always. NailsNeverLies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That did not go over well with Trump fans and they went at Dykstra hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDykstra, you\u2019ve pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud, money laundering, concealing assets, and stealing from you own bankruptcy estate and Donald Trump is compromised,\u201d the MAGAMichelle account wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dykstra reshared that and replied, \u201cThis may shock you but go (expletive) yourself, cause no one else will. Run on America first, no more foreign wars, no more doing the bidding of other countries, release Epstein files day 1, and now you threaten Iran while holding hands of another foreign leader. Sorry, no cult here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dykstra has seen his share of legal issues following his playing career as well and even served 6 \u00bd months in federal prison. He has remained active on social media after police say he was involved in the stop, but he has not addressed the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dykstra broke into the Major Leagues with the New York Mets in 1985 and helped the team win the 1986 World Series. He was traded to the Phillies in 1989 and went on to become a three-time All-Star. He won the Silver Slugger in 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/phillies-legend-facing-drug-charges-just-days-after-turning-on-president-donald-trump.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pennlive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pennlive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies legend Lenny Dykstra is back in the news just days after making headlines for turning on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,1220,48430,66922,61,66855,25,66934],"class_list":{"0":"post-504801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-lenny-dykstra","11":"tag-matthew-blit","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","14":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","15":"tag-trump-supporter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115834407176582714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}