He goes down to Mississippi for a rally and mocks Dr. Who knows, a criminal investigation into all that might be on the horizon. The Times' report also describes “instances of outright fraud.” Jeff Flake forced the FBI to look further into Kavanaugh’s past.Īnd it was before news broke of a massive investigative report produced by The New York Times saying that the president “participated in dubious tax schemes” back in the 1990s that allowed his wealthy parents to prop up Trump’s failing ventures. She was 'very compelling,' 'very fine'Īfterwards, Trump said, "I thought her testimony was very compelling, and she looks like a very fine woman to me, very fine woman.”īut … that was before Sen. There were moments of emotion during her testimony, but she throughout it all she was calm and reasoned. She’d already taken and passed a polygraph examination administered by a former FBI agent. She told the panel she was 100 percent sure the person who’d assaulted her was Kavanaugh. She spoke of how the incident had haunted her throughout her life, manifesting itself in seemingly unexplainable precautions, like demanding that her new home have two front doors in order to provide a better chance of escape should there be an intruder. Blasey Ford tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that when she and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were in high school he sexually assaulted her.
Losing control of the demonsįor a time last week – a very brief time – Trump seemed to have his demons under control. In another time, another world, an American president would feel duty-bound to use his powers of persuasion to keep his fellow citizens from acting out their worst instincts. Christine Blasey Ford, or the fact that a crowd in Mississippi cheered him on. I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that President Donald Trump publicly mocked Dr. What’s happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice.Watch Video: Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser at rally “This is a very, very-this is a very difficult time. Last week, Trump also told reporters that “it is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of”-referring to the scandal surrounding Brett Kavanaugh (who has since been sworn into the Supreme Court, despite sexual assault allegations he denied). “We’ll take that little kit and say-we have to do it gently because we are in the MeToo generation-and we will very gently take that kit, slowly toss it ,” he said. He first insulted it in July: while referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, whom he has taken to calling “Pocahontas” because of her Native American heritage, Trump said he would like to send an ancestry kit her way.
Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct himself multiple times (he has denied the claims), has made his stance clear on the growing movement. It has sprawled into something greater, tied to the broader societal reckoning over sexual misconduct that began a year ago-but the message at its core has remained the same. The movement, started by activist Tarana Burke, began as a way for survivors of sexual misconduct to voice their pain and show solidarity with fellow survivors. It’s unclear what Trump thinks the “rules” of #MeToo are.
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