Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines spoke out about her harrowing experience at San Francisco State University after delivering a speech advocating for the rights of female athletes.

Appearing on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday, Gaines recounted how she was physically assaulted at the end of her remarks by trans protesters who stormed the room she was speaking in. Gaines said the officers tasked with security were intimidated by the protesters — but she said she was not intimidated, and that the violence affirms the legitimacy of her cause.

“It was terrifying for me,” she said. “The police did not inform me of any sort of action plan. Turning Point USA invited me to the campus, I delivered a very civil and respectful speech where I had great dialogue with even protesters who were participating in a sit-in. All of a sudden, after my speech, the room was stormed. The lights were turned off and I was rushed, with no one there to escort me to a safe place. I was punched, I was hit multiple times, I was shoved. And so finally, we exited the room, but we could not leave because the protesters flooded the halls, and so I was pushed into a classroom along that hallway where I was barricaded in for three hours.”

Tucker Carlson speaks with @riley_gaines_ after she narrowly escaped from a violent mob of trans activists:

“This does not deter me, this assures me that I am doing the right thing.”

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“Three hours,” Carlson repeated, stunned. “Why didn’t someone with a gun come in and bring you to safety?”

“Because they were terrified,” Gaines replied. “They were scared to put their hands on these people because they know what these people are capable of. These people yelled obscene, violent, vulgar things to both me myself and the officers, and the officers I could tell didn’t feel comfortable putting themselves in a position that would mean they do their job. Which is a really scary, chilling thought.”

“You know, I am worried about my safety,” Gaines continued. “I have to be now. When we have people who are willing to do this — and we know why they’re willing to do this, it’s because they don’t have reason, they don’t have logic, they don’t have science, they don’t have common sense on their side. That’s on my side. And so they protrude by violence, whether it’s physical or verbal violence. But what this means for me — this does not deter me. This assures me that I am doing the right thing; this will not silence me. It just means I need to speak louder.”

Gaines added that neither the Dean of Students at San Francisco State nor the campus police defended her in the aftermath. She lauded the San Francisco Police for escorting her off campus safely. She then said she would be pursuing legal action against the people who assaulted her and the people who put her in that dangerous position.

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Gaines spent a harrowing night barricaded in a safe room Thursday after radical transgender activists swarmed her when she visited San Francisco State University to advocate for the rights of female athletes.

Gaines, a former University of Kentucky star who was deprived of an NCAA award by Lia Thomas, the trans-identifying University of Pennsylvania swimmer who claims to be female and competes against women, was at the school as part of a Turning Point USA event. Video on social media shows Gaines being hustled to safety by police officers as a mob of radical transgender activists follows her, shouting “Trans rights are human rights!”

“The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU,” Gaines tweeted. “This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I’m doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder.”

The following is the opening satirical monologue from “The Andrew Klavan Show.“

Every American, whether he’s a conservative or a buffoon, must surely agree that we would not want to break all historical precedent and possibly endanger our republic by indicting a former president of the United States unless his crime was truly egregious. But when an anonymous clerk in a man’s multi-billion dollar organization makes a vague bookkeeping entry in order to do something or other having to do with a crime no one can specifically name, it’s clearly time to act.

As you may not have heard if you were hiding in a closet sticking your fingers in your ears and imitating a kazoo playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic at full volume, Donald Trump was indicted this week for not wanting his wife to find out he committed adultery, a crime normally punishable by having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to your mistress, who ends up telling your wife anyway.

In a remarkable performance before the media, New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg explained his actions without George Soros once moving his lips. In fact, several times during Bragg’s statement, Soros actually drank a glass of water and then lit a cigarette with the free hand that wasn’t shoved up Bragg’s ass in order to manipulate his face.

In his statement, Bragg argued that his indictment of Donald Trump on incomprehensible made-up charges was wholly in keeping with the traditions of America, if you include Central America, and other places ruled by Communist despots that happen to be named America for some ridiculous reason.

Bragg said, “We in New York City cannot normalize serious crimes on the first Tuesday in April at 2:30 in the afternoon. It’s not as if Donald Trump murdered or raped someone. If it was just that, I would happily release him on no bail so he could escape forever into the lawless depths of the savage jungle or Chicago. But a male politician who would have sex with shapely women and then pay them to keep their mouths shut has done something no male politician in the history of the world has ever done since last night. It is vitally important we act now to destroy the republic before men getting stupid in the presence of a really spectacular pair of breasts becomes standard behavior.”

Although the reading of the Trump indictment made it absolutely clear that Trump was specifically being charged with some damn thing or other, questions still remained. For instance, what is it about the term “hush money” that some women don’t understand? I mean, it’s right there in the word hush. It’s even right there in the last two letters of the word: Sh. Which means: after you take the money, you’re supposed to keep quiet about it instead of going on television to discuss the whole thing. Psychiatric experts are currently trying to determine why a man who is married to a supermodel who speaks five languages would cheat with a big-breasted bimbo who does not even have a rudimentary understanding of English, and while they’re not yet sure, they think it may have something to do with the size of her breasts.

As Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan courthouse to plead not guilty to whatever the hell he was being charged with, pro- and anti- demonstrators took to the streets trying to send a message to Washington that they were physically unattractive and personally unhappy and had nothing better to do with their time than take to the streets.

Other reactions were more restrained. At the New York Times, a former newspaper, the entire staff solemnly gathered in the city room to smear each other’s naked bodies with honey and then lick it off as an expression of their mindless orgiastic pleasure at having finally triumphed over the dark forces of decency and common sense. Meanwhile, Republican voters across the nation vowed that they would strike back against the unfair indictment by acting stupidly out of blind anger in order to ensure that Democrats win every elected office until they learn their lesson. At the White House, President and Venal Houseplant Joe Biden made no statement at all on the indictment because sadly he had passed away six months ago and was now preparing to run for re-election.

On the positive side, in a country stumbling toward World War III while beset by historic inflation, unsustainable debt, and an oncoming banking crisis, at least we know that there is one crime that will never be tolerated in the city of New York. We just don’t know which crime it is.

Trigger Warning. I’m Andrew Klavan, and this is the Andrew Klavan Show.

Andrew Klavan is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is A Strange Habit of Mind, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.

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