A new report suggests that the fate of three UCLA basketball players arrested in China for shoplifting may have been determined before President Donald Trump attempted to plead on their behalf.

UCLA has announced that freshmen basketball players Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, will be suspended at least through the end of the 2017/2018 season, a report says.

President Donald Trump accepted the thanks from three UCLA basketball players after they were released from China for shoplifting.

“Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump?” Trump asked. “They were headed for 10 years in jail!”

Three freshman UCLA Bruins basketball players were reportedly arrested on Tuesday for allegedly shoplifting sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou while they were in China for the Pac-12 China Game.