Anyone who thought that Donald Trump had turned over a new leaf when he said that America should listen to Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who is accusing Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, was seriously mistaken. Just days after Trump insisted that Ford be heard, the president was on Twitter attacking her for not being able to recall every single event of her traumatic experience with Kavanaugh.
On Friday, Trump claimed that if Ford had really been sexually assaulted when she was 15, she would have “immediately” gone to the police. Once again, Trump proves to be completely tone deaf and not know how the real world (and trauma) works. Trump tweeted:
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter. I go through this with them every single day in D.C. I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter. I go through this with them every single day in D.C.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
Those are not surprising statements from a man who endorsed child molester Roy Moore, or a man who has been accused of rape and sexual assault more times than we can count.
The Republican Party wants Trump to tread lightly in this area, regardless of how many of GOPers are rape apologists who agree with the president. They know that Trump’s attacks on Ford could result in Kavanaugh not being nominated, so they’d rather get Trump to shut the hell up and play nice instead. That’s exactly why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) set out to speak to Trump about his recent tweets.
On Friday, McConnell personally called Trump up to tell him that his tweets against Ford were ruining the GOP’s efforts to confirm Kavanaugh and that if he didn’t cut it out, the consequences could be dire for the GOP and Trump’s presidency. While Trump would like nothing more than to confirm his own SCOTUS nominee, the president’s mental instability will likely prevent him from complying.
Once again, Republicans are wasting more time keeping Trump in check than doing their actual jobs. It’s too bad that Trump doesn’t have the ability to take any advice other than his own.
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