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Former North Carolina Miss USA contestant renews call for ethnics probe into Trump sexual misconduct claims (2017)
abc11.com

... Samantha Holvey, Miss North Carolina USA 2006, is back in the spotlight renewing calls for President Donald Trump to be investigated for sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior.

In 2006, Holvey and the other Miss USA contestants were invited to the Trump Tower to meet with then-pageant owner Donald Trump.

Holvey said Trump gazed at her 20-year-old body with little eye contact.

"I just felt like such a piece of meat," she said.

As of Tuesday, Holvey is one of 19 women accusing Trump of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior.

A claim she first exposed just before the 2016 presidential election.

"I felt very dirty, very creepy," Holvey said in an interview with CNN's Don Lemon in 2016. "It's kind of like when you're in a bar and a creepy guy is checking you out."

On the final night of the 2006 pageant, Holvey said she saw Trump walk into the dressing room where contestants were naked.

The White House has denied all sexual misconduct allegations against the president.

In an April 2005 interview with radio host Howard Stern, Trump said this:

"I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready. I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know they are standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody ok?' And you see these incredible looking women, so I sort of get away with things like that. "

The White House said voters settled the discussion when they picked Trump as president. ...


Ex-contestant: Trump inspected each woman before pageant (2016)
www.cnn.com

... A former Miss USA contestant says Donald Trump personally inspected each woman prior to the contest to the point where it was "the dirtiest I felt in my entire life."

Samantha Holvey, the 2006 Miss North Carolina, told CNN that during an event in New York City in the month before the pageant, Trump personally inspected each of the contestants.

"He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people," Holvey said. "You know when a gross guy at the bar is checking you out? It's that feeling."

As a 20-year-old attending a private Southern Baptist college, she said she was not prepared for what she experienced before and during the pageant. She recalled private parties where the contestants mingled with "old, rich drunk guys ogling all over us." ...


Donald Trump had a habit of walking into the dressing rooms of teen beauty queens (2016)
www.vice.com

... As owner of the Miss Teen USA pageant franchise, Donald Trump felt entitled to walk into the dressing rooms of aspiring young beauty queens.

Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant told BuzzFeed that Trump would often show up in their dressing room unannounced while the contestants, some as young as 15, were changing.

"I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, Oh my god, there's a man in here'," Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, told BuzzFeed reporters. She remembers Trump's response " that he said something along the lines of "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."

Tasha Dixon, the former Miss Teen Arizona, competed in the 2001 Teen USA pageant. She was 18 at the time and remembers how Trump would "come strolling right in" when girls were "half-naked, changing into [their] bikinis ... .some girls were topless. Other girls were naked," according to an interview with the CBS station in Los Angeles.

"There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing," Dixon said. She said that was most of the girls' first introduction to Trump. She said that Trump's behavior put her and the other pageant contestants in a "very physically vulnerable position," and that his entrance was usually accompanied by "the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention."

Trump apparently considered access to the women's changing rooms one of the perks of owning the beauty pageant franchises Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA, which he bought in 1996.

In a 2005 interview, Trump told radio shock jock Howard Stern, "I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore I'm inspecting it." ...



President Trump Job Approval
www.realclearpolling.com

...
RCP Average 1/12 - 2/2
Approve: 42.9
Disapprove: 54.2
Spread: -11.3

President Trump Approval - Economy
www.realclearpolling.com
RCP Average 1/7 - 2/2
Approve: 41.0
Disapprove: 55.2
Spread: -14.2

President Trump Job Approval - Immigration
www.realclearpolling.com
RCP Average 1/7 - 2/2
Approve: 44.7
Disapprove: 51.9
Spread: -7.2

President Trump Job Approval - Inflation
www.realclearpolling.com
RCP Average 1/8 - 2/2
Approve: 37.0
Disapprove: 59.9
Spread: -22.9

President Trump Approval - Crime
www.realclearpolling.com
RCP Average 12/12 - 1/29
Approve: 46.5
Disapprove: 49.2
Spread: -2.7




TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture

www.cnbc.com

$14 billion to kill the app.

Money well spent to control access to information.

TikTok was less restrictive under China than it is under Trump.

@#3

Regarding WhatsApp, there's this ...

US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages
www.theguardian.com

... A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm can access 'virtually all' private communications, a claim the company has denied ...

From the usb-summary ...

... Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook ...

Mr Zuckerberg owns more than that...

Meta Platforms
en.wikipedia.org

... Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads and Manus. ...


ZED-

www.huffpost.com

Jeanine Pirro Says 'You're Going To Jail' If You Bring A Gun To DC " And The Right's Backlash Was Swift
"Why is a 'conservative' judge threatening to arrest gun owners?" Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) asked.

Bill Clinton CALLS Trump's BLUFF for PUBLIC HEARING on Epstein

www.youtube.com

Republicans want the Hearing to be Private so they can spin it however they want afterwards.

Bubba says let's make the Hearing public... and they run like hell.

I recommend listening/watching this testimony:
Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

This one I find reading the transcript more engaging and I can follow the events better:
US Citizen Marimar Martinez describes being shot 5 times by CBP agent

"On Friday, I was teaching the young children at the Montessori school, and we were singing and dancing and getting ready for spooky season preparing for activities to do the following week, and on Saturday my own government was calling me a domestic terrorist. and I was in federal detention centers. with the bullet holes all over my body."

Good luck getting the millions of antiwar "Puritopians and p**sies" from the list I posted to grow up in time for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, 2 Nov 2027, and 7 Nov 2028.


Heck, even Israelis had enough of war and bloodshed and have started an exodus from their homeland which I posted a few days ago.

Scientific research indicates that transgender identities have a biological basis, with studies showing brain structures in transgender individuals that often align more closely with their experienced gender than their assigned sex at birth. Evidence suggests these neurobiological differences, along with potential genetic and prenatal hormonal influences, contribute to a fundamental sense of gender identity

Brain Structure and Function: Research, such as studies on brain scans, indicates that transgender people often display brain characteristics more similar to their experienced gender. For example, the hypothalamus in some transgender individuals may show, in terms of volume and neuron number, a closer match to their identified gender than their sex assigned at birth.
Biological Basis: Evidence points to potential factors like prenatal hormone levels and genetic influences, rather than a single cause. Research suggests a link between transgender identity and variations in genes related to hormone processing (e.g., estrogen and androgen).
Neurobiology and Development: Research suggests that gender identity, which may be established by prenatal hormone exposure, can differ from sex assigned at birth. Studies on brain structure suggest that these differences may arise during prenatal development.
Brain Structure Similarities: Studies have found that transgender individuals' brains exhibit functional and structural, with some brain regions appearing similar to cisgender individuals with the same gender identity.
Gender Identity vs. Sex Assigned at Birth: Studies show that brain structures can differ between transgender individuals and cisgender individuals, with some brain regions in transgender individuals, such as the white matter fiber tracts, being more consistent with their experienced gender.

You see, science

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