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Farmgirl1961

(1,643 posts)
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 09:46 PM Sep 2016

The Miss USA hopeful sued by Trump: 'There are ways to stand your ground'


Sheena Monnin saw beauty pageants as a way to fulfill her potential – she never imagined they’d be the gateway through which Donald Trump would try to destroy her life. Even now, she insists, the debacle has not made her anti-pageant, just anti-Trump.

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She wrote:

I have decided to resign my position as Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012. Effective immediately I have voluntarily, completely, and utterly removed myself from the Miss Universe Organization. In good conscience I can no longer be affiliated in any way with an organization I consider to be fraudulent, lacking in morals, inconsistent, and in many ways trashy.

I do not support this system in any way. In my heart I believe in honesty, fair play, a fair opportunity, and high moral integrity, none of which in my opinion are part of this pageant system any longer.

Thank you all for your support and understanding as I walk a road I never dreamed I’d need to walk, as I take a stand I never dreamed I’d need to take. After 10 years of competing in a pageant system I once believed in, I now completely and irrevocably separate myself in every way and on every level from the Miss Universe Organization. I remove my support completely and have turned in the title of Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012.

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In June she published a self-help book, Hands on the Wheel: Getting Control of Your Life, which draws on her experience being bullied by Trump to help advise readers in dealing with bullies wherever they may find them.

NOTE: Where is this book? Maybe we can help make it a best seller?

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/04/sheena-monnin-donald-trump-miss-usa-lawsuit
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The Miss USA hopeful sued by Trump: 'There are ways to stand your ground' (Original Post) Farmgirl1961 Sep 2016 OP
Here is the book at Amazon cojoel Sep 2016 #1
She might be spot on about Trump, but she's still a shitbag Major Nikon Sep 2016 #2
K&R PatSeg Sep 2016 #3
She appears to be a scammer herself oberliner Sep 2016 #4
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
4. She appears to be a scammer herself
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 11:01 PM
Sep 2016

Trying to hawk her bogus seminars and now book.

She is also a RW fundamentalist Christian who claimed to have resigned because of the pageant allowing trans participants.

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