California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter is on a book tour.
Within roughly the past week, the West Coast left-wing darling has made appearances on “CBS Mornings,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “CNN This Morning,” HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and ABC’s “The View.” With her new book out to promote her California Senate run, Porter’s high-profile media tour is, by definition, chasing clicks. So it was odd Friday night on HBO when the California lawmaker accused former NCAA star swimmer Riley Gaines, who was just recently assaulted at a campus in Porter’s home state, of merely trying to “get clicks.”
Gaines was violently attacked by transgender activists at San Francisco State University earlier this month after she tried to give a campus lecture on women’s sports, sponsored by Turning Point USA. The former college swimmer was chased by a mob of demonstrators who screamed “trans rights are human rights” and called her a “transphobic b-tch.” Porter said Gaines was wrong to suggest athletic organizations should exclude males from female leagues.
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“I think that what she has done is try to turn this — we talked about people becoming — using things to kind of get likes and get clicks,” Porter said on Maher’s show. “Riley is speaking up for herself.”
Katie Porter randomly took a shot at Riley Gaines during Maher’s show, claiming the point of Riley’s activism is “Getting likes”
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