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lets be honest in the fact a lot of people are stupid and believe trump and the rights crap. the only fear tactic they have not used yet is biden coming for the elderlies depends.

i was never a big fan tho i admired her standing by her husband. and they made her answer her questions and blamed her on benghazi when repubs cut spending for security and were mad because she did not send troops to benghazi because she never had that authority. she was toast because of the deplorable thing but i believe her now. they say emails but cheney and many repubs destroyed emails just like she did but not one repuke said they should pay. only the dems. if i could do it again i would vote for her. look what ignoring her did to us. treason. trying to steal elections. an alarming jump in racism because trump said he wanted the votes but he has been called a racist by most that know him. i am sure a few are afraid to speak out. i was part of that and i am not sure i will ever get over not voting for her.

Open in app or online this week in stupid: May 12 edition Jeff Tiedrich May 12 Share as another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let’s look back at some of the highlights. Upgrade to paid sunday: all black men look alike to Ted Cruz Texas senator and all-around complete piece of s*** Ted Cruz is up for reelection in 2024. and Ted Cruz has a Democratic opponent in the race. his name is Colin Allred. this is Colin Allred. keep his image fresh in your mind, because there’s going to be a test at the end. below is a text message that the Cruz campaign sent out last weekend. it features a photograph of a man who for now we’ll call Definitely Not Colin Allred. have a look. in fact, it’s a photograph of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. now here’s that test I warned you was coming: do Alvin Bragg and Colin Allred look alike? keep in mind that they’re both men with brown skin and roundish faces. so do look carefully one more time and ask yourself: do they look alike? no. they look nothing alike. now pretend you’re a racist in Texas pandering to other racists in Texas, and answer the question again. we thought so. monday: Matt Walsh doth protest too much what is it with conservative men and their masculinity? they’re so ******* worried about it all the time. there is literally no end on the internet to over-amped manly men giving advice to other manly men on how to be the manliest manly man possible. gosh, it’s almost like they’re overcompensating for something. what do you suppose it might be? enter podcast host Matt Walsh. Matt is very very very concerned about wokeness in sports. and he’s particularly upset about professional hockey. why? because hockey is the gayest sport ever. how do we know? according to Matt, “you can never be fully manly on ice skates.” now you know. tuesday: the stupidest ******* moron in the entire history of the universe can’t keep his stupid ******* mouth shut when you lose in court, the smart thing to do is say nothing, or maybe make some short statement about how you’re disappointed with the outcome and you’ll be appealing the decision. but for the most part, any smart person will keep their mouth shut and let their lawyers do the talking. Donald Trump is not a smart person. Donald Trump is the gift that keep on giving. after Trump was found liable for defamation and sexual abuse, he had an absolute ******* meltdown on his crappy app. and over the next 48 hours, he continued to melt the **** down, including during his CNN quote-unquote “town hall,” so much so that E. Jean Carroll is now considering filing a third defamation suit. you do you, Donny. you’re a national ******* treasure. wednesday: Tommy Tuberville stands up for white nationalism, because reasons Tommy Tuberville is a football coach who was elected to the Senate by the voters of Alabama. nobody is really sure why. perhaps the good people of Alabama were concerned that the stupidest Republicans were all in the House and that the Senate needed more idiots of their own to balance things out. nonetheless, to call Tommy Tuberville a stupid ******* idiot would generous. here’s the T-man defending white nationalism. a notion so profoundly stupid that Tubey’s staffers had to spend the rest of the week walking it back. thursday: very stupid bloviators yodeled out of existence by very smart protester I confess, I don’t know who these congresspeople are. I lifted this video from a tweet by Brian Tyler Cohen. what I do know is that they’re your typical garden-variety Republicans, yammering on about their precious border wall. behind them is … well, let’s just say that not all heroes wear capes. some of them yodel into a megaphone. and our hero is unrelenting. the dipshit Republicans are overmatched and eventually give up. Unknown Yodeling Hero, a weary nation offers its thanks. I have a question for the commenters: is the woman on the right trying to stifle a laugh? friday: ? hey, it’s only ten o’clock in the morning as I sit here writing this. but give it time, I guarantee you that some dipshit wingnut is going to do something stupid before the day is over. you can set your watch to it. have a great weekend, everyone.

it is all political bullsh*t. the right turned a blind eye to damn every crooked thing he did. even jan 6. you guys voted for trump and you own it.

impartial? dude cnn just hosted the turd known as trump. they claim they did it to be fair and balanced and not the money from rating. i care little for cnn. also repubs have come out and said it is a nothing burger and how many times have they investigated hunter? i read several months ago he had been investigated for the last six years. so i do not believe it until i see proof and not hearsay. but again, if he is guilty get him. but be honest. do you feel that way about trump? most of your side does not you guys have just not slowly almost stopped taking up for him other than rapes and assaults and that sort of thing.

Auburn's Maddie Penta named SEC Pitcher of the Year Updated: May. 12, 2023, 9:39 a.m.|Published: May. 12, 2023, 9:38 a.m. 4–5 minutes Auburn Tigers Sports Auburn’s Maddie Penta named SEC Pitcher of the Year, 2 more Tigers earn All-SEC honors Maddie Penta (9) during the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa, AL on Sunday, Apr 23, 2023. Jamie Holt/Auburn TigersJamie Holt/Auburn Tigers Maddie Penta capped one of the best seasons in program history with one of the SEC’s highest honors. The Auburn softball star was named the SEC Pitcher of the Year on Friday when the league announced its end-of-season awards. Penta was also tabbed an All-SEC first-team selection and made the SEC All-Defensive team after a remarkable run through the regular season saw her guide Auburn to a top-three finish in the conference -- the program’s best finish since 2017 -- after the Tigers were picked to finish ninth in the SEC. Read more Auburn softball: Auburn rallies past Ole Miss, advances to SEC Tournament semifinals Auburn to host 2024 SEC softball tournament Penta is the first player in Auburn history to win SEC Pitcher of the Year, and she’s the first Tiger to make the All-SEC first team in back-to-back seasons since Kasey Cooper. Penta posted a 0.96 ERA during the regular season while becoming the first Auburn pitcher to post consecutive seasons with 20-plus wins and 250-plus strikeouts since Anna Thompson hit those marks during the 2009 and 2010 campaigns. In SEC play, Penta went 12-2 (with one save) with a 1.02 ERA across 16 appearances, including 15 starts. Penta went the distance in 13 of those outings, six of which were shutouts. Her ERA was the best by an Auburn pitcher in SEC play in a single season in program history, and it led all pitchers in the conference who tossed at least 65 innings this season. Penta’s ERA was accomplished while throwing 110 1/3 innings during SEC action, as she struck out 138 SEC hitters, walked just 29 and limited opposing batters to a .143 average. Penta is the fourth Auburn pitcher to record at least 12 wins in an SEC season. Her six shutouts tied Kristen Keyes (2004) for most in program history. Among her six shutouts were a pair of one-hitters, as well as a no-hitter against South Carolina that marked the first by an Auburn pitcher in SEC play in more than 17 years. Her 138 strikeouts in SEC play were second among league pitchers this season, as well as the second-most by an Auburn pitcher in an SEC season (behind Keyes), and she tied Auburn’s SEC single-game record with 17 strikeouts against Missouri. Along with her stellar year in the pitching circle, Penta posted a perfect fielding percentage in SEC play, with two putouts and 19 assists, which helped her earn SEC All-Defensive honors. She’s the first Auburn player to make the All-Defensive team since Casey McCrackin in 2019. While Penta was the big winner for Auburn in terms of the league’s end-of-year awards, she wasn’t the only Tiger honored Friday. Denver Bryant and Nelia Peralta both earned All-SEC second-team honors for the first time in their respective careers. Auburn’s three All-SEC selections are the most for the program since 2017. Bryant led Auburn with a .322 average in league play, with 10 RBI, three home runs, two doubles and a .403 on-base percentage. Peralta was the Tigers’ second-leading hitter, with a .299 average and a team-best .552 slugging percentage and .435 on-base percentage in SEC play. Her five home runs were tied for the team lead in conference action. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

you never talk about the lies and bad faith statements you make. you never apologize for sorry statements YOU make concerning rape victims. tell you what hoss when you clean YOUR crap up i will. i have been completely nice on other boards to you guys but i am not going to ignore what trump and his supporters have put this country through. you tried to take over the damn country by stealing an election. YOU denied it forever. and i know you will still vote for the piece of garbage regardless of the harm he has done to people. and you know i am telling the truth. so are all your buddies on here. and dude ,again, you smear ichy and homie everyday dang near it. and you think that is ok. just not when someone else does it.

did you or did you not just smear the lady that won her civil sexual assault care? who is unhinged? this is not the first time you with others have made fun of rape accusations. you cracked jokes. it is not funny. it is an act of violence and you sir are a low life piece of crap for doing it. that is not unhinged but fact. your unhinged is nothing more than a deflection because you cannot prove the crap you state. and dude you love to mess with others on my side and that is ok right? let me say this. i do not like you. i have never liked you. i do not want anyone thinking i ever liked you. got it? every time you post a lie or an untruth i am going to be on you buddy.

tell you what. prove me wrong. if YOU can prove it it always shuts me up. you cannot. you guys are slamming that lady making out like she is lying and yet she won in front of a jury of her peers. EVERYTHING is partison with you. you reap what you sew. i have the right to call you and anyone else out on here. you guys call me cray and unhinged. you accuse me of being stoned when in fact i am not. yall bring it all the time but when i give back you start crying. you have been trashing me for a long time now and you expect me not to call you out on the horrible things you imply waiting thirty years when you do not have a clue how rape works. and when you guys were celebrating trump and we called him out we were liars and thieves. i have a very long memory. and YOU have never apologized for any smears or lies you have ever told.

you guys had no problem slinging mud back when yall thought trump was the golden child. yall came at me fast and hard. i have never told anyone what to post but i have called out what you say if i disagree. again i might be crazy but you area joke. you will still vote for the pig if he gets the nomination so give me a break .

is trump running for office gain or not? i have already proved what i wanted about trump. you dunna want to hear about trump ignore me. you guys crying over and over about poor ol trump gets sickening. you cannot prove that lady lied but you smear her along with your buddies. i told you before to quit telling me what to post. i am not spamming i address everything i post that gets a reply. trump is a s*** show and you know it. taking up for him is a bad look. he is lying about sexual assault which you keep throwing up like it is lesser than rape. he still inserted parts of his body in hers. you are a pig and i have just about had my limit with you. you people think rape is funny and something to joke around or belittle people about.

nymag.com What Happened to the 20 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct Margaret Hartmann 24–30 minutes According to the White House, they’re all liars. Photo: Gerardo Mora/Getty Images This post was originally published in November 2017. It has been updated with additional harassment claims and public statements from Trump’s accusers. As more and more powerful public figures have been accused of sexual harassment and abuse over the past year and a half, there’s one person whose alleged sexual misconduct seems simultaneously ever present, and yet grossly overlooked. Some have argued that there would be no #MeToo movement if Donald Trump had not been elected, despite being accused of various forms of misconduct, from groping to rape. After the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke in October 2017 some of Trump’s accusers said they were happy sexual harassment was finally being discussed more openly, while others were dismayed that their own stories seemed to have little impact. Sign up for Dinner Party A lively evening newsletter about everything that just happened. A defamation suit filed by Summer Zervos, which is still winding its way through the courts, opened up the possibility that Trump’s accusers will get their day in court. Some of the women have continued speaking out, hoping that away from the chaos of the election, people might be more willing to listen to their accounts. Meanwhile, new accusers have come forward. On Monday a staffer on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign filed a lawsuit claiming that he kissed her without her consent while they were on the campaign trail. For now, Trump seems entirely unfazed by the allegations hanging over him. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said that it is the White House’s official position that every single one of the women is lying, and Trump has not shied away from condemning other men accused of sexual misconduct (if they’re Democrats). Here’s a reminder of what behavior the president has been accused of, organized by when the alleged incident occurred. It includes, when available, an update on how the women have continued trying to make their stories heard. The allegation: Leeds said Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt when she was seated next to him in first class on a flight in the early 1980s. “He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.” Afterward, she fled to the back of the plane. “It was an assault,” she said. After Leeds went public, Trump mocked her at a campaign rally, suggesting she wasn’t attractive enough to sexually harass. “Yeah, I’m gonna go after — believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you,” he said. Since then: “It is hard to reconcile that Harvey Weinstein could be brought down with this, and [President] Trump just continues to be the Teflon Don,” Leeds told the Washington Post a year after she first came forward. In December 2017, Leeds and several other Trump accusers held a press conference and appeared on Megyn Kelly Today. She recalled that she encountered Trump at a fundraising gala in New York three years after the airplane incident. “And he says, ‘I remember you, you were that [she does air quotes] woman from the airplane.’ He called me the worst name ever.” She confirmed to Kelly that the word was “****.” Leeds also said she would be interested in providing a deposition in the Zervos defamation suit. “I would do it — I’m not afraid,” Leeds said. The allegation: In her 1990 divorce deposition, Ivana Trump accused her soon-to-be ex-husband of raping her in a fit of rage the previous year. Harry Hurt III obtained the papers, and described Ivana’s account in his 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. According to Hurt, Ivana said her husband raped her after a doctor she recommended gave him an unexpectedly painful “scalp reduction” operation to eliminate a bald spot. Hurt said Ivana described her husband yanking out a handful of her hair, holding her hands back, and tearing her clothing. “Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than 16 months. Ivana is terrified … It is a violent assault,” Hurt wrote. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’” Just before Lost Tycoon was printed, Donald Trump’s legal team provided a statement from Ivana that was posted on the first page of the book. “During a deposition given by me in connection with my matrimonial case, I stated that my husband had raped me,” the Ivana Trump statement said. “[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a ‘rape,’ but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.” Ivana issued another statement after the allegations resurfaced in 2015: I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president. Since then: In interviews promoting her book Raising Trump in fall 2017, Ivana said of the rape allegation, “That was all just the lawyers’ talk.” She also dismissed his remarks in the Access Hollywood video, saying, “He was not really disrespectful. Just jokes. Sometimes you say things which are silly.” The allegation: Anderson claimed that while she was out at a New York club with friends in the early 1990s, someone slid his hand under her miniskirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She turned around a recognized him as Donald Trump. “It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it and nothing would happen,” Anderson said. “There was zero conversation. We didn’t even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part.” Since then: Anderson is mentioned in the Zervos lawsuit, but has not discussed her claim publicly since the election. The allegation: Harth claimed that Trump made repeated unwanted sexual advances as she and her romantic partner at the time, George Houraney, pursued a business relationship with the mogul in the early 1990s. She said that on January 24, 1993, at Mar-a-Lago, Trump offered her a tour of the estate, then pulled her into his daughter Ivanka’s empty bedroom. “He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,” Harth said, “and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’ It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with George, he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?” In 1997 Harth and Houraney sued Trump for breach of contract, and she filed a separate sexual-harassment suit, accusing him of “attempted rape.” They reached a confidential settlement in the contract suit, and as part of the agreement Harth withdrew her suit. Since then: Harth repeatedly defended her attorney, Lisa Bloom, after she was criticized for guiding Weinstein through his disastrous response to his sexual-misconduct allegations. Bloom set up a GoFundMe for her client, which has only raised $2,582 of its $10,000 goal. Harth tweeted about Trump several times, then said in October that she would stop discussing him online. Harth said she might write a book someday, as she felt the “press has distorted facts pitifully.” The allegation: Lisa Boyne said a mutual friend invited her to dinner with Trump in the mid-1990s. She claims she was picked up in Trump’s limousine, and during the ride he made disparaging comments about women he’d slept with or wanted to sleep with. Boyne said that during the dinner, several models were called over and instructed to walk over the table to Trump. “As the women walked across the table, Donald Trump would look up under their skirt and comment on whether they had underwear or didn’t have underwear and what the view looked like,” Boyne said. “It was the most offensive scene I’ve ever been a part of,” Boyne added. She said she claimed she wasn’t feeling well and left the restaurant. Since then: In December 2017, Boyne joined a press conference with several other Trump accusers via speakerphone. “This isn’t how we should teach our boys to talk … It’s horrendous,” Boyne said, referring to the Access Hollywood tape. “[We should] demand that Donald Trump step down like Al Franken. Because what he’s acknowledged, what he’s made appropriate culturally is a thousand times worse than anything Al Franken has done.” Boyne – along with fellow Trump accusers Rachel Crooks, Samantha Holvey, Jessica Leeds, Melinda McGillivray, Natasha Stoynoff, Temple Taggart, and Karena Virginia – put out a statement in September 2018 supporting the women accusing then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. “Trump has dismissed our claims, lied about his conduct, and attacked us. Now he’s painting with the same brush to salvage the Kavanaugh nomination,” the statement said. “It’s a standard move from his playbook.” The allegation: Five women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA claimed Trump, who owned the pageant, walked in on them while they were changing. “It was certainly the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time,” said Victoria Hughes, the former Miss New Mexico Teen USA. “The youngest girl was 15, and I was the eldest at 19.” On The Howard Stern Show, Trump admitted to “inspecting” the contestants backstage. It wasn’t clear if he was referring to the Miss USA pageant, or the contest for teens. “You know, I’m inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good,” he said. “You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone okay?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible-looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.” Since then: In October 2017 Candace Smith, a former Miss Ohio USA, said Trump was in the dressing room when she competed in the 2003 Miss USA Pageant (not the teen pageant). The allegation: McDowell, who represented Utah as a 21-year-old in the 1997 Miss USA pageant, said Trump immediately kissed her when they were introduced during a rehearsal. “He kissed me directly on the lips,” she said. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’ He was married to Marla Maples at the time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like ‘Wow, that’s inappropriate.’” Since then: Taggart and three other Trump accusers — Summer Zervos, Jessica Drake, and Rachel Crooks — held a press conference in D.C. just before they protested in the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. “I want my children to see that I am willing to face my fears head on, with the hope that I might not only bring about a positive change in others, but also instill in them a similar strength,” Taggart said. The allegation: Heller says she received an unwanted kiss from Trump when they were introduced at a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago. The incident occurred in front of her family. The Guardian reported: “He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips,” she claimed. Alarmed, she said she leaned backwards to avoid him and almost lost her balance. “And he said, ‘Oh, come on.’ He was strong. And he grabbed me and went for my mouth and went for my lips.” She turned her head, she claims, and Trump planted a kiss on the side of her mouth. “He kept me there for a little too long,” Heller said. “And then he just walked away.” Since then: Heller attended the Women’s March on Washington on the day after Trump’s inauguration, rallying 43 people to reserve an entire train car from New York. “I like to think I’d be at a march in Washington, or at least locally in New York, even if it hadn’t happened to me,” she said. Today she’s dismayed that despite all the sexual-harassment claims against Trump, “nothing stuck.” She told the Washington Post in October 2017 that she thinks things might have been different for Weinstein because his accusers were famous. “A lot of them were actresses we’ve all heard of,” Heller said. “When it’s a celebrity, it has more weight than just someone who he met at Mar-a-Lago or a beauty-pageant contestant. They’re not people we’ve heard of. And that, in our society, has much more weight because they’re famous.” The allegation: Virginia said she encountered Trump while she was waiting for a car service to pick her up from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. She overheard him making comments about her to other men. “He said, ‘Hey, look at this one, we haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs.’ As though I was an object, rather than a person,” she said. “He then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm, then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched,” she continued. Trump then asked her, “Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?” she said. Virginia, who co-signed the statement supporting Kavanaugh’s accusers, was profiled by the New Yorker in November 2018. She told the magazine that she received death threats after coming forward, and still felt guilty about how people interpreted her tears during her press conference. “People told me, ‘Don’t you understand that there are women out there who are raped?’ ” she said. “But that was exactly why I was crying! I wasn’t crying because some man touched my breast. I was crying because I could feel the weight of this sadness and silence eating away at women all over the country. I was crying because this world is so full of dysfunction, because millions of women and men have lived in shame because of things other people did to them. I cried because I was thinking about them.” The allegation: McGillivray said she was assisting photographer Ken Davidoff, who was taking photos during a Ray Charles concert at Mar-a-Lago, when Trump groped her butt. “I think it’s Ken’s camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I’m stunned.’’ Davidoff said moments later, McGillivray pulled him aside and said, ‘’Donald just grabbed my ass!’’ Since then: In October 2017, McGillivray told the Post that she was afraid of speaking out a year ago, but felt it was her patriotic duty. “What pisses me off is that the guy is president,” McGillivray said. “It’s that simple.” Following the Roy Moore scandal, McGillivray said she was appalled that Republicans still weren’t acknowledging the allegations against the president. “It’s disturbing,” she told People, “that many of Trump’s diehard supporters are so stubborn that they can’t seem to come to terms with the reality that their president is just as guilty as Roy Moore.” The allegation: The journalist claimed that Trump pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue down her throat while giving her a tour of Mar-a-Lago. Stoynoff was working on a profile of the Trumps, and said that while waiting for Melania to arrive for an interview, Donald told her, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?” She said he also referenced a New York Post cover published during his affair with Marla Maples. “You remember,” he said. “‘Best Sex I Ever Had.’” Since then: In November 2017, Stoynoff told People she believes the allegations against Trump may have more power in the #MeToo era. “I feel this issue has been ‘on hold’ all year, but not forgotten,” Stoynoff said. “It’s been simmering on the stove with the lid on, like a pressure cooker. But now the heat’s on and it’s going to boil and the lid is going to blast off.” The allegation: Murphy, a contestant in season four of The Apprentice, claimed Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview. “He walked me to the elevator, and I said good-bye. I was thinking ‘Oh, he’s going to hug me’, but when he pulled my face in and gave me a smooch. I was like ‘Oh–kay.’ I didn’t know how to act. I was just a little taken aback and probably turned red. And I then I get into the elevator and thought ‘Huh, Donald Trump just kissed me on the lips.”’ The accusation: In December 2017, former Fox News host Juliet Huddy said Trump kissed her on the lips after a business lunch. “He took me for lunch at Trump Tower, just us two,” she said on the radio show Mornin!!! With Bill Schulz. “He said good-bye to me in an elevator while his security guy was there’ rather than kiss me on the cheek he leaned in to kiss me on the lips. I wasn’t offended, I was kind of like, ‘Oh my god.’” She said she was “surprised” but “didn’t feel threatened.” Huddy said that when Trump appeared on her Fox News show several years later, he joked to producers and audience members about making a pass at her, saying “I tried hitting on her but she blew me off.” Huddy said at the time she wasn’t offended by Trump’s kiss, but her view of the incident has changed. “Now I have matured I think I would say, ‘Woah, no,’ but at the time I was younger and I was a little shocked,” she said. “I thought maybe he didn’t mean to do it, but I was kind of making excuses.” The allegation: Crooks encountered Trump outside an elevator in Trump Tower in 2005. At the time she was a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real-estate investment and development company. She said she introduced herself and shook Trump’s hand, but he wouldn’t let go. He started kissing her cheeks and then “kissed me directly on the mouth.” “It was so inappropriate,” Crooks told the New York Times. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.” Since then: In November 2017, Crooks told the Times that she’s heartened to see sexual-harassment allegations being taken more seriously post-Weinstein, but sees a contrast in the response to Trump’s accusers. “You do wonder,” Crooks said, “how can the country forget about us?” Crooks was among the women who renewed their allegations against Trump in a December 2017 press conference. On Megyn Kelly Today, Crooks said some have questioned why the incident wasn’t captured by security cameras, and she wonders the same thing. “Yes, where is that? Let’s get that out because I would love for that to be made public,” she said. “He owns the building, I doubt that’s going to happen, but I’d be more than happy to let that surface.” Crooks ran for a seat in Ohio’s legislature in the 2018 midterms, but lost to the Republican incumbent. The allegation: Holvey, the 2006 Miss North Carolina, said Trump personally inspected each contestant at an event in New York about a month before the pageant. “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.” Holvey, who was 20 at the time, also recalled Trump and his wife, Melania, entering a dressing room where other contestants were getting ready during the pageant. Most were wearing robes. “I thought it was entirely inappropriate,” Holvey said. “I told my mom about it. I was disgusted by the entire thing. I had no desire to win when I understood what it was all about.” Since then: In December 2017, Holvey repeated her story at a press conference with several other women, and was interviewed by Megyn Kelly and Erin Burnett. “It was heartbreaking last year,” Holvey told Kelly. “We’re private citizens and for us to put ourselves out there to try and show America who this man is and how he views women, and for them to say ‘Eh, we don’t care,’ it hurt.” The allegation: Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland, said Trump grabbed her butt while they were being photographed before an appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman. “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt,” she said. “I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?’” The allegation: Drake, an adult film performer and director, said she and two friends went to Trump’s hotel room after meeting him at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California. “He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission,” she said. She said they left about a half-hour later; then Trump called her and invited her to go to dinner or a party with him. When she declined, he asked, “What do you want? How much?” She said she received a second call offering her $10,000 and the use of Trump’s private jet if she agreed to sleep with him. Since then: Drake was among the four accusers who held a press conference on the day of the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. “Like many, I am horrified by the potential upcoming administration and fear the consequences it will have,” she said in January. “I want to use my platform to speak for others who cannot and join voices with those who can and who march with me here today.” The allegation: Zervos, a contestant on the fifth season of The Apprentice, said she approached Trump about a potential job at his company. She claimed that during their first meeting at Trump Tower, he kissed her twice on the mouth and asked for her phone number. Weeks later, he invited her to meet him at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. She was escorted to Trump’s room, and said he asked her to sit next to him. “He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast,” she recalled. Zervos said she pushed Trump away and told him to stop. “He then grabbed my hand and pulled me into the bedroom,” she said. “He grabbed me in an embrace, and I tried to push him away.” Zervos said when she protested, Trump “repeated my words back to me as he began thrusting his genitals.” She still sought employment at the Trump Organization and believed she wasn’t given a job because she rejected his advances. Since then: Three days before Trump was inaugurated, Zervos filed a defamation suit against him. It alleges that in response to the accusations she made during the election, Trump “debased and denigrated Ms. Zervos with false statements about her,” referring to his claims that all of his accusers were liars looking for “ten minutes of fame.” “In doing so, he used his national and international bully pulpit to make false factual statements to denigrate and verbally attack Ms. Zervos and the other women who publicly reported his sexual assaults in October 2016,” the lawsuit said. Trump’s attorneys have repeatedly attempted to sought to have the case dismissed, but a judge has allowed Zervos to seek discovery. In fall 2018 Trump agreed to turn over portions of his calendar from 2007 and 2008, and provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit. The accusation: In June 2016, Searles, Miss Washington 2013, tagged her former competitors in a Facebook post that read: “Do y’all remember that one time we had to do our onstage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn’t look him in the eyes? Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property?” Many of the women said they did, and in one reply Searles added, “He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.” The accusation: In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Floria on Monday, Alva Johnson claimed that she experienced a pattern of “racial and gender discrimination” while working on Trump’s 2016 campaign, and received an unwanted kiss from the candidate. Per the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow: The incident in which Johnson said that Trump kissed her occurred during an event that she had helped organize in Tampa in August, 2016, according to the complaint. In an R.V. before Trump’s speech at the event, the complaint alleges, Trump took Johnson by the hand and leaned in to kiss her; she attempted to turn away, but, she claims, his mouth made contact with the corner of hers. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders called the claim “absurd on its face” and noted that two prominent Trump supporters that Johnson identified as witnesses denied seeing the kiss. Johnson said she has been thinking about coming forward since the Access Hollywood video became public in October 2016. “I’ve tried to let it go,” she told the Washington Post. “You want to move on with your life. I don’t sleep. I wake up at 4 in the morning looking at the news. I feel guilty. The only thing I did was show up for work one day.” What Happened to Trump’s 20 Sexual-Misconduct Accusers

punch em in the face. hit em again just reach down and grab that *****. trump has shown you guys his true colors and still, here you are not believing just how evil trump can actually be.

jesus dude. you know what trump is. youo have admitted he is a piece of crap. and yet knowing that all 26 women coming forth against trump is skeptical at best. SHE WON DUDE. it is people like you that basically make a lot of women to seek justice over sexual matters. and yet you try to make trump look like a ped on here. you are showing your true colors again. man you are some piece of work.

you gotta sling insults don't you? you got so sloppy drunk on here at times you have no reason to call anyone out. you were pretty bad dude.

news.yahoo.com Parkland dad's book looks at NRA's grip on America: 'Stop listening to the liars' Hannah Phillips, Palm Beach Post 5–6 minutes WEST PALM BEACH — For every prayer offered after a mass shooting, Fred Guttenberg is ready with a plea. "Stop listening to the liars," the father of a victim in the Parkland mass shooting tragedy said this month. His new book, "American Carnage," spells out how. Guttenberg's 14-year-old daughter Jaime was one of 17 people killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. Five years later, Guttenberg has teamed up with a Canadian criminologist to combat fiction with fact in the debate surrounding guns in America. Their book, "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence," chips away at what its authors call the gun lobby's "40-year disinformation campaign" aimed at selling as many guns as possible, no matter the consequence. "America is fed up," Guttenberg said. "And America is now coming to the realization that they've been lied to." Fred Guttenberg's daughter Jaime was killed in the Parkland shooting in 2018. The book he co-authored with Tom Gabor, "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths that Fuel Gun Violence," published May 2, 2023. For Subscribers: DeSantis backs lowering age to buy a rifle to 18 Related: On Parkland fifth anniversary, gun safety advocates cite 'less progress' than expected Their book counters refrains like "guns don't kill people, people kill people" with the growing body of research that reveals people with guns kill people, and more effectively than those without. If the weapon is irrelevant, the U.S. could save billions of dollars a year by arming the military with hammers instead of guns, Guttenberg and Gabor say. They take aim at the notion that only a "good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun," — an expression coined by the National Rifle Association that Guttenberg said turned the Sandy Hook massacre into a "gun-sales bonanza." Jaime Guttenberg was among 17 students and staff shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018. Armed citizens often lack the training for high-stakes situations and rarely intervene to stop an active shooter successfully, Guttenberg and Gabor write. "American Carnage" points to shooting after shooting where even armed law-enforcement officers did little to stop an assailant. At Marjory Stoneman Douglas, a resource officer remained outside while the gunman opened fire into classrooms floor by floor. At Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, officers from six law enforcement agencies waited in the hallway with assault-style weapons for more than an hour as a gunman killed 21 children and teachers. To suggest that arming more people will reduce gun violence is as "illogical" as pushing opioids to curb the opioid crisis, Guttenberg and Gabor argue. Parkland: Ex-deputy says he did 'everything humanly possible' to stop mass shooting Tom Gabor poses with a copy of his and Fred Guttenberg's book "American Carnage: Shattering the Myths that Fuel Gun Violence." They argue that the country isn't as hopelessly divided as legislative inaction might suggest. A 2018 survey conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found a number of policies with support from gun owners and non-owners, including universal background checks, better training for concealed carriers and red flag laws. "The gun lobby and gun extremists want to convince people that it's utterly futile to try to introduce gun legislation," Gabor said. "And that simply isn't the case." Gabor began writing the book in 2018 but stopped when news broke of the Parkland shooting and turned his attention to another project exploring solutions to the gun violence crisis. When he picked the project back up years later, he added Guttenberg to the team. "American Carnage" is Gabor's eighth book on criminology, and Guttenberg's second. His first was a personal account of the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, whereas "American Carnage" offers a look at the misinformation that fuels tragedies like it. It leans on decades' worth of research and sometimes hard-to-grasp statistics, but the authors' message at its core is simple: The gun lobby has been lying for decades. "The result of that has been the carnage we see today," Guttenberg said. "My daughter was a cost of doing business." Hannah Phillips is a journalist covering public safety and criminal justice at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at hphillips@pbpost.com. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Parkland shooting victim dad debunks the NRA's stand on gun violence

yahoo.com Louisiana Republicans Kill Rape, Incest Exceptions to Abortion Ban After Unhinged Hearing Lorena O’Neil 3–4 minutes Photo: Melinda Deslatte (AP) After a truly eyebrow-raising hearing on Wednesday, Louisiana’s House criminal justice committee voted against adding rape and incest exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country. Pastor John Raymond of Slidell, La., testified against the bill, saying that an abortion in the case of rape would make it so there are two victims instead of one–a talking point parroted by anti-abortion activists throughout the discussion. Women will “clamor to put old boyfriends behind bars in order to dispense with the inconvenience of giving birth,” he said. Read more 36 Gifts for Your Friend Who Won't Shut Up About Astrology A Hot Girl's Guide to Having Bunions in Your 20s Amber Heard’s Appeal Lists 16 Ways the Court Screwed Her Over in Johnny Depp Defamation Case Raymond, mind you, currently faces numerous criminal charges for cruelty to juveniles, including multiple allegations of physically abusing a 4-year-old, once allegedly holding him upside down by the ankle and whipping his butt. The pastor has also been accused of taping three 13-year-old boys’ mouths shut after they refused to stop talking in class. The rest of the hearing was equally disheartening. Democrat Delisha Boyd, who introduced the bill to add rape and incest exceptions, revealed that she was the product of rape after her mother was sexually assaulted when she was 15. “My mother never recovered,” said Boyd, adding that her mother died just before she was 28 years old. Republicans, of course, were unmoved by this argument. Anti-abortion activist Debbie Melvin said abortion “can be like a second rape.” “A baby is the only beautiful thing that can come from rape,” she said. Most rape survivors who testified supported Boyd’s bill. One survivor wept as she said that if she hadn’t been able to have an abortion she may have died by suicide. Morgan Lamandre, the president and CEO of Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR), said that she used to be vice president of the anti-abortion club at her high school, but changed her mind after working with sexual assault survivors. She pointed out that forcing a person to carry a rapist’s baby is only further traumatizing them. “By forcing survivors to give birth, you are forcing them to forever be connected to their rapist,” Lamandre said. “In Louisiana, men are allowed to choose the mother of their children regardless of what the mother wants.” The House Criminal Justice Committee then killed the bill in a 10-5 vote. All of the Republicans on the committee voted against adding the exception. One Republican representative, Tony Bacala, said he was voting against it because its author, Rep. Boyd, is the product of rape, and she turned out to be a good person. We’re living in hell. and their leader hangs a toddler up by one leg and whips him? what the hell is wrong with you people?

Donald Trump Is Not a Legitimate Candidate for President Jack Holmes 6–7 minutes Donald Trump Is Not a Legitimate CandidateGetty Images CNN will hold a town hall event with Donald J. Trump on Wednesday evening. On the face of it, hosting a presidential candidate to answer questions from voters is an unremarkable cable-network exercise, though in this case it's the day after the candidate in question was found liable by a civil jury for sexual abuse. Even before that verdict, critics were pounding CNN on the basis that in a live format, it will be highly difficult to get viewers the truth alongside whatever Trump is serving up. Moderator Kaitlan Collins has a massive task wading through the river of drivel, but the root question we ought to be asking here is why we, the press and public, have decided to treat Donald Trump as a legitimate presidential candidate. That is what CNN's move—and a whole lot of other coverage we've seen—does: it suggests that this guy is just a candidate, like President Joe Biden or anyone else, who has views on how to fight inflation or whatever. It does not communicate that just last week, members of a right-wing paramilitary group that pledged allegiance to him were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in trying to stop Congress from confirming that he would leave power after losing the 2020 election. An attorney for one of the Proud Boys convicted, Joe Biggs, told the jury that they came to Washington on January 6 because their "commander-in-chief" told them to "be there, it's going to be wild." "It was Donald Trump’s words," said a lawyer for another defendant, then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. "It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th." You might say this is just lawyers trying to get their clients off, but we don't even really need their input on this. The people who attempted to stop the peaceful transfer of power were carrying Trump flags, chanted their allegiance to him, and targeted his enemies—including Vice President Mike Pence. They were marching atop a mountain of bull**** delusion he constructed over many months. The whole thing was supercharged by Trump's deeper emotional appeal, that America itself was being stolen away from its rightful heirs, which was always more important than this or that conspiracy about voting machines. Parallel to the riot, Trump's White House aides and his congressional allies, including Ted Cruz, were working to stop the election certification long enough to establish a "commission" to engage in yet another phantasmagorical assessment of the election-fraud claims, with the ultimate goal of sending it back to Republican-controlled state legislatures. The state-level allies would then hand Trump their Electoral Votes and make him president despite the fact that the actual citizens of those states voted for Joe Biden. Let’s not pretend it’s in doubt who these people were there to represent. Samuel Corum - Getty Images In this, it was an attempt to seize power in contravention of the expressed will of the American people, and a grave assault on the basic foundations of the American republic. (He called up Georgia's chief elections official and demanded that he "find" the exact number of votes that would overturn Joe Biden's win there! It's on tape!) It was disqualifying, in my view, when Trump moved to ban all adherents of one religion from coming to America, or when he unleashed a deluge of nativist hatred against people who want to immigrate to this country. But that was, ultimately, a matter of political preference. His attempt to stay in power after the American people removed him from office is not a policy dispute or a question of differing social values. It is completely incompatible with any attempt to seek an office of the public trust. He should be barred for life from any such office, which he would have been if the Republican Senate had done its duty and convicted him in his second impeachment trial. It still could, theoretically, if Special Counsel Jack Smith chose to charge him for any role in the seditious conspiracy and he were convicted. In that scenario, he could be barred from office per section three of the Fourteenth Amendment. All of that is unlikely to play out before the 2024 election, so there's little doubt that under the law, Donald Trump will be a candidate in good standing for federal office. But legitimacy is about more than just technically qualifying to run. It's also about more than just having supporters. Trump has many, and according to a new poll from CBS News and YouGov, 75% of them say they're voting for him at least in part because they believe his story that he actually won the last election. Never mind all the failed lawsuits and the courts that found no admissible evidence, and never mind that he's never gotten more American citizens' votes than his opponent. All that and the many court cases he's embroiled in are secondary to the simple fact that he has committed crimes against the American republic. As a body politic, we should take this opportunity—having passed on all the previous—to expel him. The political press plays a crucial role in how that body functions, and it is failing. Any news report on Trump's candidacy that fails to mention his attack on the American republic a couple of years ago is failing the American voter. If it doesn't always seem relevant, I invite you to imagine what would have happened if the scheme cooked up amongst Trump's aforementioned aides and allies had succeeded, and he'd stayed in power for another term despite losing the election. How do you think someone who's taken power in these circumstances would respond to the inevitable protests? Do you think that a man who seized power in extralegal fashion would serve out his second term and then leave? Where, in short, does the political press think all this was going? What do they think their lives and jobs might have looked like if he was successful? This is not a game. wow. someone gets it. this was posted wednesday morning before trump showed the world the same old nasty trump.

People want to follow him': What Auburn football is getting in transfer QB Payton Thorne Richard Silva, Montgomery Advertiser 6–8 minutes AUBURN — Former Naperville Central High School football coach Mike Stine saw the parallels immediately. He was at minicamp for the New Orleans Saints a handful of years ago and was given the opportunity to sit in on an offensive meeting. Leading the gathering wasn't coach Sean Payton, nor was it offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael. In fact, it wasn't anyone on the staff. It was Drew Brees. FREEZE'S THOUGHTS: What Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze said about MSU transfer QB Payton Thorne RECRUITING: How Auburn football's Hugh Freeze has done in building relationships with in-state coaches "If you would have come and watched our offensive meetings a lot of times at Naperville Central, Payton (Thorne) ran our offensive film sessions," Stine told the Montgomery Advertiser this week. "He had that ability and we allowed him to do some of that. I’m not saying he’s going to be Drew Brees, but there was a lot of similarities." Stine saw the way Brees commanded a room. Thorne did the same at Naperville Central. He also noticed how people gravitated toward Brees, looking to absorb anything they could from the future hall of famer. Stine couldn't help but think about the same thing happening between Thorne and his teammates. "People want to follow him," said Kofi Hughes, who has been Thorne's trainer for the last seven years. "Payton has always been the guy that’s like, ‘Hey, we’re going this way. Let’s roll.’ He was like that in high school and I’ve seen him do the same thing at Michigan State." Thorne spent four seasons with the Spartans before he entered the transfer portal April 30 and committed to Auburn five days later. He joins a quarterback competition that features incumbent starter Robby Ashford and redshirt freshman Holden Geriner, along with true freshman Hank Brown. But Thorne has something those other QBs don't: Experience. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Illinois native has appeared in 29 college games, completing 61% of his passes for 6,493 yards and 49 touchdowns. He's also been intimately around the sport since he was a child. His grandfather, John Thorne, was a high school coach before leading Division III North Central College to 118 wins over 13 seasons. After John retired, Payton's father, Jeff Thorne, took over and led the Cardinals to their first NCAA Division III national championship in 2019. Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne throws in the first quarter against Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, in State College. The Nittany Lions won, 35-16. "He grew up a gym rat," Stine said. "He grew up on the sideline of football (games) with his grandpa and his dad. He grew up in a locker room. ... He grew up in meeting rooms. He’s been around coaches. I don’t know if he has aspirations to be a coach, but he’d be a dang good one because he is detail-oriented. He’ll work one-on-one with receivers to get that exact distance on a route. He’s very detailed that way, and that’s why we really let him run a lot of meetings." Stine was also comfortable allowing Thorne, who started his junior and senior seasons at Naperville Central, to check nearly every play at the line of scrimmage. Stine estimates his former quarterback called about 75% of the team's plays from the line after he saw the defensive alignment. "Sometimes our best was when we just went no-huddle, up-tempo and then Payton was just calling (plays) at the line of scrimmage," Stine said. "He had the ability to digest what the defense (was doing), how they were lining up, what they were going to do and get our guys in the right place. "That's very unique. There’s a lot of college guys that can’t do it, and Payton could do it in high school. He’s been able to do it at the college level, as well.” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze pointed to that acumen when asked what drew him to Thorne. According to Hughes, who was a receiver at Indiana from 2010-13, Thorne's knowledge of what each offensive player on the field must do allows him to challenge his teammates. TRANSFER PORTAL: Will Auburn football continue to be active in the portal? Hugh Freeze is 'open to looking' FREEZE'S STRATEGY: 'I know it can win': Why Hugh Freeze leads recruiting strategy with Auburn football An assistant on Stine's staff during Thorne's time at Naperville Central, Hughes recalled multiple occasions where Thorne would come off the field and not shy away from letting a teammate know he had to do better. "When you talk about intensity in a football player, people usually think of like Ray Lewis at linebacker," Hughes said. "Ultimate intensity, right? I’ve never seen a quarterback play like that. Where he’s coming off and, man, if you didn’t run the right route or if the line wasn’t acting right, you’re going to hear about it. Usually you hear about it from your coach, but you’re going to hear about it from Payton Thorne. "Because there’s just this different level of confidence and there’s this different level of leadership that follows somebody that actually knows what everyone is supposed to do. ... Honestly, anyone who plays the game, you want that. That’s exactly what you want. ... I’ve been playing football my whole life and there’s so many different personalities within the game. The ones that I admire most are the guys that treat it as a profession far before they’re even in the NFL. This is a kid who’s been treating the game as a professional would since he was literally 16 years old." Stine expects Thorne to come in and push not only his teammates, but also the staff to match his work ethic. He wouldn't expect anything less after experiencing that as his coach in high school. "He is so ready for something like the SEC, so ready to contribute to the legacy at Auburn," Hughes said. "Everything that he’s been through these last four or five years, it’s all been pointing in this direction. I can’t say enough great things." Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: Auburn transfer QB Payton Thorne brings experience, intensity to Tigers

247sports.com Kirby Smart Hugh Freeze brings tremendous offense back to SEC Nathan King 28–36 minutes Freeze and Smart will face off this season for the first time since 2016 HOOVER, Alabama — For the first time since 2016, Hugh Freeze and Kirby Smart were back on the same grass. They’ll have to wait until Sept. 30 for their first meeting in the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry, though. Freeze and Smart were celebrity participants Wednesday in the 2023 Regions Tradition Pro-Am, an annual golf fundraiser for Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham. Freeze will become the third Auburn coach of Smart’s Georgia tenure when his Tigers host the Bulldogs this fall. And having faced off against him as Alabama’s defensive coordinator four times (2012-15), and once as Georgia’s head coach (2016), Smart is well versed in the challenges posed by Freeze’s offenses. “He does a tremendous job with the RPO game,” Smart said Wednesday when asked what makes Freeze’s teams difficult to defend. “He’s got great belief in his players and his system.” Freeze bested Smart’s Alabama defenses twice in 2014 and 2015, then Ole Miss blasted Smart’s first Georgia team, 45-14 in 2016. In all, Freeze’s offenses at Ole Miss averaged 23.6 points across five meetings against Smart’s defenses. “His players believe in him,” Smart said. “He’s a really good leader and a great football coach.” Freeze’s RPO-based offense — a run-pass-option system where, depending on the defense’s alignment, the Tigers can make decisions on the fly to attack mismatches or weaker areas of the field — was obviously a big emphasis for Auburn’s first-year coaching staff during spring practices. The Tigers’ quarterbacks struggled to grasp the concepts at times, and now Auburn is bringing in a veteran Power Five starter in Michigan State’s Payton Thorne. “It’s always that cat and mouse game that you’re playing with the defense,” Auburn offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery said during spring practice. “And trying to figure out, ‘Where can I take advantage, or what are they giving up to get to the point where they want to be?’ It’s a give-and-take-type system, and a lot of that goes on our quarterbacks.” Since taking over at Georgia, Smart is 7-1 against Auburn, and the Tigers have lost 15 of their last 18 overall against their oldest rival. Georgia is looking to become the first three-peat national champion in modern college football history.

247sports.com How Hugh Freeze evaluates new Auburn WR Caleb Burton Nathan King 30–38 minutes "This one made sense because his high-school tape was pretty dang good. Obviously he was one of the top receivers in the country.” HOOVER, Alabama — Usually when a player is asked to join Ohio State’s receiving corps, it’s a good sign their talent level is more than adequate. That’s partially the reason why Hugh Freeze and his Auburn staff took Caleb Burton in the transfer portal last week — because the former top-75 overall recruit didn’t appear in a game as a true freshman with the Buckeyes. In that sense, Freeze and Auburn’s coaches are viewing Burton’s addition like that of a retroactive freshman signee from the 2022 class. “You went by his high school tape, and what he did there, and then trying to stack your classes in that receiver room where you're not getting all upperclassmen,” Freeze said Wednesday at the 2023 Regions Tradition Pro-Am fundraiser. “And this one made sense because his high-school tape was pretty dang good. Obviously he was one of the top receivers in the country.” Rated as the No. 10 receiver in the country by 247Sports in last year’s recruiting class — and signing with an Ohio State program that has arguably college football’s best track record at the position over the past few seasons — Burton did not appear in any games for the Buckeyes during their run to the College Football Playoff. This spring, Burton was injured on the first day of Ohio State’s practices and missed the rest of spring ball. Burton’s ability to stay healthy at Auburn will be something to monitor, considering he’s played just one full season of football over the last four years following a major knee injury his junior year of high school. Burton visited Auburn last weekend just a few days after entering the portal, and new position coach Marcus Davis made him feel like a major priority to boost a thin unit. “Something they’ve been harping on is (needing) more wide receivers on the team,” Burton said. “And I think that’s a great opportunity," Ohio State returns what’s regarded by many as the top receiving corps in college football, with Marvin Harrison Jr., Emeka Egbuka and Julian Fleming all back — and that’s after the Buckeyes had the first receiver taken in the 2023 NFL draft in Jaxon Smith-Njigba. “(Burton) went to Ohio State — that room is loaded there — so we base that off of his high-school tape, and we're basically getting a freshman,” Freeze said. The 5-foot-11 Burton is the second transfer addition to Auburn’s receiving corps this cycle, joining Cincinnati’s Nick Mardner. Auburn returns starters Ja'Varrius Johnson and Koy Moore — along with exciting sophomore Camden Brown — but the Tigers have struggled to find consistency at receiver over the past couple seasons. Burton should have plenty of opportunities to earn a spot in the main rotation. Michigan State quarterback Payton Thorne is obviously the headliner of Auburn’s post-spring transfer pickups, but the Tigers also brought in more help along the offensive line in the form of Jaden Muskrat, who started at right tackle for Auburn offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery last season when he was the head coach at Tulsa. Of course, Auburn’s probable starting left tackle this season is Dillon Wade, who also followed Montgomery from Tulsa. Auburn seems well positioned already at right tackle with Western Kentucky transfer Gunner Britton, and Freeze said Muskrat is capable of playing an interior spot, too. “He can do both (tackle or guard), which is why he was that high for us — of the ones that went into the portal,” Freeze said. “I think he can do both. Exactly how that looks when we start, I'm not sure yet, but excited to get him.” Defensively, Auburn’s lone transfer addition in the second portal window is App State pass-rusher Jalen McLeod, an All-Sun Belt performer who had six sacks last season and brings a much-needed injection of experience to a jack linebacker position that doesn’t return any of its contributors from last season. “Incredible pass rusher — which we need desperately — and toughness,” Freeze said. “Plays the game hard, high motor. Really excited by Jalen.” Freeze said Wednesday he and his staff would still like to add one or two more wide receivers, another pass-rusher, a linebacker and possibly a defensive back via the transfer portal.

the sad part was she was so right on the deplorables. i mean look what we got in trump. and they are trying again and it is killing this country.

keep polishing the turd known as trump. he is angry but if he gets back in the white house i am in the chris christie camp in he will try to burn the country down. and you morons think he did nothing.