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Trump starts first rally since sexual assault tape by praising Ben Roethlisberger.

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Ben Roethlisberger is an accused rapist just as a point of information.

On March 5, 2010, it was revealed that police in Milledgeville, Georgia were investigating Roethlisberger for a sexual assault inside the women's restroom of the Capital City nightclub. The accuser, a then-20-year-old student at nearby Georgia College & State University, was seen at several establishments with Roethlisberger leading up to the incident, including posing for a photograph with him.[citation needed] Roethlisberger spoke with police the night of the incident and stated that he did have contact with the woman that was not "consummated" and afterward the accuser slipped and injured her head.

Roethlisberger hired lawyer Ed Garland, who had previously defended Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis in his murder trial. Head coach Mike Tomlin stated at the time that he was "highly concerned" for the franchise and Roethlisberger.[131]

The accuser was treated at Oconee Regional Medical Center. An emergency-room doctor and two nurses examined her and noted in their report a "superficial laceration and bruising and slight bleeding in the genital area", but could not say if trauma or sexual assault was the cause. The remaining examination was "normal".[132] A rape kit was collected, but no semen was recovered, and the amount of male DNA found was insufficient to create a profile. The doctor's report also quoted the alleged victim telling them that, "A boy kind of raped me."[132]

In interviews with the police on the night of the incident, the woman alleged that Roethlisberger, after inviting her and her friends to the V.I.P. area of the nightclub, encouraged them to do numerous shots of alcohol before Anthony Barravecchio — an off-duty Coraopolis, Pennsylvania policeman, undercover DEA narcotics officer at Pittsburgh International Airport, and one of Roethlisberger's bodyguards[133][134] — stated he led her down a hallway to a stool and left. Witnesses, however, stated that Barravecchio "placed his hand" on the accuser's shoulder and applied "a little bit of pressure to guide her" into the restroom where she claims the assault took place, something Barravecchio's lawyer denies.[135][136]

After Barravecchio's purported departure, Roethlisberger allegedly approached, exposed himself, and despite the woman's protests, followed her into what turned out to be a bathroom when she tried to leave through the first door she saw. The woman claims Roethlisberger then raped her. It is further alleged that friends of the woman attempted to intervene out of worry, but the second of Roethlisberger's bodyguards, Edward Joyner—an off-duty Pennsylvania State Trooper—avoided eye contact and said he did not know what they were talking about. The policemen claimed to "have no memory" of meeting the woman.[137]

Milledgeville Police Sergeant Jerry Blash, who had posed for a photograph with Roethlisberger earlier in the evening, was the first officer to respond. At the scene, he made a comment about the accuser to Barravecchio: "We have a problem, this drunken [expletive], drunk off her ass, is accusing Ben of rape.” Blash later admitted denigrating the accuser and never formally questioning Roethlisberger; he did speak to the NFL player and his off-duty police bodyguards at the Capital City club, but according to Blash's own report, Roethlisberger was hardly engaged and spent most of the time on his phone.[133]

On April 12, 2010, district attorney Fred Bright held a press conference to announce that Roethlisberger would not be charged. Bright said "looking at all the evidence here, I cannot prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt".[132] Furthermore, the accuser wrote to the D.A. through her lawyer expressing she no longer wanted to pursue criminal charges[138] because the level of media attention would make a criminal trial too "intrusive" of a personal experience. The letter stressed that she was not recanting her accusation.[139]
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He's completely clueless.

In case anyone missed it: Not 'locker room' talk: Athletes push back against Trump's remark

CJ McCollum
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I haven't heard that one in any locker rooms https://twitter.com/jcrossover/status/785289607411802113 …
9:28 PM - 9 Oct 2016

Robbie Rogers
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I'm offended as an athlete that @realDonaldTrump keeps using this "locker room talk" as an excuse.
9:20 PM - 9 Oct 2016

Sean Doolittle
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As an athlete, I've been in locker rooms my entire adult life and uh, that's not locker room talk.

Kendall Marshall
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PSA: sexual advances without consent is NOT locker room talk.
 
Grizzlyjin

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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
That story sounds so ridiculous
 
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I'm sure his base was wowed by his powers of prophecy but I don't buy that story.

And who are the tree lovers he's talking about? Is he calling his base environmentalists? Where did that come from? The things he says just seem to materialize from another dimension sometimes.
 
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The more interesting point here is that ben is so bigly and strong that he mortally wounded a tree with a golf ball.
 
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I cut a pretty substantial bough off of a tree with a frisbee golf driver.
I also shattered a driver into tiny pieces on a trunk but I think the tree lived.
Also, fuck Lumpy.
 
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