Article snippet: Curt Schilling, the former Red Sox star and conservative firebrand who says he’s mulling a run for office, got the backing of President Trump in a tweet Tuesday morning. Trump tweeted his praise of Schilling after the ex-player told a radio show this week he was considering a run for Congress in Arizona. “Curt Schilling, a great pitcher and patriot, is considering a run for Congress in Arizona. Terrific!” Trump tweeted, tagging the Fox News morning show “Fox and Friends,” something he often does while tweeting reaction to the show. Schilling told “Armed American Radio” host Mark Walters in an interview that aired Sunday he was considering returning to Arizona to run for a seat in Congress. He did not specify from which district he would mount a run. “One of the blue ones,” he told Walters in the interview. Schilling has longstanding ties to Arizona. He attended high school and college there and played for the Arizona Diamondbacks for three-and-a-half seasons before being traded to the Red Sox in 2003, where he gained fame for his 2004 ALCS performance against the Yankees, pitching through a gruesome injury to win Game 6. In the years following his retirement, he has at times been embroiled in controversy: His video game company, 38 Studios, folded, leaving taxpayers on the hook for a $75 million state loan guarantee. Schilling’s also become an outspoken proponent of the far right, and drawn condemnation for fired from ESPN in 2016 for sharing an offensive Facebo... Link to the full article to read more