Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford at Mississippi rally
Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford at Mississippi rally
David Knowles 10 hours ago President Trump is done playing nice with Christine Blasey Ford.
At a Tuesday rally in Southaven, Miss., Trump attacked the credibility of Ford, one of three women to accuse his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
“How did you get home? I don’t remember,” Trump said, mocking Ford’s answers before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “How did you get there? I don’t remember. Where is the place? I don’t remember. How many years ago was it? I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. What neighborhood was it in? I don’t know. Where’s the house? I don’t know. Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know. But I had one beer, that’s the only thing I remember.”
With the crowd laughing and cheering his impression of Ford, Trump then turned serious.
“And a man’s life is in tatters. A man’s life is shattered,” Trump continued. “His wife is shattered. His daughters who are beautiful, incredible young kids — they destroy people, they want to destroy people. These are really evil people.”
President Trump at a rally in Southaven, Miss. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
Trump’s comments marked a departure from his strategy of avoiding any criticism Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hours after Ford detailed her allegation of Kavanaugh’s drunken sexual assault at a party when the two were in high school, Trump offered Ford praise.
“I thought her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman to me, very fine woman,” Trump told reporters in the White House last Friday following Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It was an incredible moment I think in the history of our country. But certainly [Ford] was a very credible witness. She was very good in many respects.”
Trump came to Mississippi to try to avert an embarrassing loss in the Senate for Republicans in the deep-red state, throwing his weight behind incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Facing a three-way race between Democrat Mike Espy and far-right Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel, Hyde-Smith basked in the president’s support. Trump, however, spent far more time discussing Kavanaugh’s confirmation process than Hyde-Smith’s candidacy.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump praised Kavanaugh as “an outstanding person” who has been “very brutally treated,” and lamented what he described as an unfair playing field for men in the #MeToo era.
“It is a very scary time for young men in America when you could be guilty of something you may not be guilty of,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn before boarding Marine One. “This is a very, very — this is a very difficult time.”
The F.B.I. is currently looking into the allegations against Kavanaugh and is expected to wrap up its investigation this week.
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This is a new low, even for the idiot in chief.
Though I do not quite know what I find more disturbing, His blither blather, or the crowds applauding Him for His unmitigated ignorance.
There are a lot of stupid people in America, and the majority of them support President* Trump. That is the only reasonable way to explain his "popularity".
He has hit "a new low" so many times that Guinness is creating a new entry.
POS orange conman traitor in chief is scum of the earth, how anyone thinks this subhuman is a good president is beyond my comprehension. He is a disgrace to the office of the President.
The President is very WRONG here and NEVER should have let those words fall out of his mouth. It is not okay to mock anyone who has endured sexual abuse. While I may understand the point he was attempting to make...he certainly missed the mark by a mile. I used to make fun of Obama and his teleprompters - now I find myself wishing that Trump would stick to his! There's no way those words would have appeared there. I believe he should apologize for what he has said. Immediately.
On the other hand, a lot of comments made here are also in very poor taste and rather juvenile. Surely there are better, and more intelligent, ways to express your disdain for the POTUS or the nominee for the SCOTUS.
Speaking only for myself, I revel in my rude and filthy mouth. The longer the orange baby man stays in office the worse I'm going to get.
My father once told me "You have turned being a smart ass into an art form."
What a nice compliment !
lol
I just got told to "Shut up"
Same here. My mother didn't like smart asses
I grew up in a barn.
The stupid stubborn mule ran away.
He didn't know, all he had to do was click his four hooves together, and play horse shoes, and people wouldn't ride him so hard,
but Jack, and Jacquelyn Ass, don't always know how to
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on some other Donkey Door, and stop knocking on the open barn door cause he/she swings both ways.
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I put a doorbell on my door,
designed to look like a large door knocker, but people should try it first...
but , they keep smashing it against the door , so
I've decided to put in a new Storm y Jack Daniels Ass screened background door in, with out peoples, cause I was always taught to fck with authority by the authorities.
I figured they were the authority on the subject, sorta like Trump is the authority on proper ways to address people who might have a different opine
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What A Class Act
From my father, it was a compliment.
If Trump has no problem with mocking the disabled, he has none with doing it to a survivor of sexual abuse. He is like that little white speck on chicken shit, which is chicken shit too.
It's just not fair to mock the pussy-grabber-in-chief or to question a credibly accused drunkard and sexual predator.
And they call liberals "snowflakes."
Yet NOTHING said here set a 'norm' for public discourse. The FACT that Trump's sycophants, which included woman and CHILDREN, laughed and cheered Trump's mocking proves that this isn't just about what Trump let 'fall out of his mouth'.
Therein lies the rub. Trump AND Kavanaugh 'set the tone'. THEY should be held to a higher standard than us 'mere mortals'.
Kavanaugh's conspiracy theory rant, followed by a screaming, crying, mocking 'performance' was disqualifying. Most of the conservatives here cheered it and excused it unequivocally.
Trump's mocking 'rally speech' played to his base, and they laughed and cheered, just as he knew they would...
He grinned, he clapped, he lapped it up.
Disgusting.
Yet you call for US to 'politely' respond...
I think that's what happened to that thing that died a few decades back upon his hollow cranium.
He stroked it like heart disease ,
and all that patting damaged the wrinkled up tiny pea, inside it, or when in Russia, on top of it
McDaniel is a t-bag scumbag that will do anything to get into power. Ol Cindy isn't any better, she was appointed to the position.
Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford at Mississippi rally
Please wait to write articles of what this man says that will surprise me.
So that way I won't have to read anything for years.
Seriously not much president could say would shock me.
I learned long ago when I realy listened to and comprehend what this man said. He plainly stated that words do not matter to him and deeds was all that counts.
My interpretation of that was and is. President trump will say anything he wants to get whatever he wants.
Taking that into consideration has proven useful in weeding thru the shit president trump throws onto the path of reality daily. Mainly I don't listen or take much stock in anything he says, I just watch what he does. IMO: Sooner or later reality will catch up to this whole mess and it will end. Smoke and mirrors don't last. Someday we'll all get a peek behind the curtain.
Except that all the morons who support him will still be around & still laughing at rape victims.
the morons who support him will still be around
They were before he showed up but without a leader they are not much more than annoying gnats. Give em a leader with power though and they become insane with it , as we are seeing.
So. Quoting Blasey Fraud is mocking?
Oh, Jer, even you know that he didn't "quote" her. He just threw around some of her words in a random way to create a lie for the rabble and they ate it up. He and they are really despicable people.
Mock: verb - tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
Whether you're imitating someone's words or their uncontrollable movements, how it's said determines whether it is mocking or not. You have to be seriously daft not to hear the mocking tone in Trumps voice. It doesn't matter whether he repeated her word for word, which he didn't, he gave a loose paraphrase of her testimony, it's unbelievable insensitive and disgusting to tease and mock a sexual assault survivor just to get a few laughs from a crowd. The only reason he would even think of doing such a thing is because he knows his base, he knows they don't give a fig about women, sexual assault survivors, disabled Americans, minorities, liberals, progressives, LGTBQ Americans, all of them are fair game to mock at a Trump rally. The only ones they're not allowed to mock? Whites, males, Christians, Jesus, Southerners, the confederacy, choreographed wrestling and NASCAR. It's a sad testament to a political party when they're more upset by women marching wearing pink knit hats than they are about members of their own party proclaiming to be conservatives supporting Trump marching in the streets with swastika armbands waving swastika and confederate flags, many wearing MAGA hats, chanting "Jews will not replace us!".
Trump has defended Nazi's marching in the street as "fine people" while now ruthlessly mocking a survivor of sexual assault. Whatever shred of decency or conscience Trump supporters had left is now gone if they continue supporting this monster or were actually pleased with his bullying and mocking of Dr. Ford.
If only he made fun of the special Olympics he could be the bestest President ever.
When I read comments like that I have to wonder if they really come from a liberal who's trying to make a rightwinger look as horrible as possible.
Where Obama did make a comment about bowling and the SO, although in bad taste, was never meant to be hurtful. Trump on the other hand deliberately and maliciously goes after people. He could care less that his actions and words are blatantly hurtful. You comparing one incident opposed to the numerous that your hero has made is asinine.
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Have a good day
You also.
If only your Scumbag would apologize just once for being the biggest asshole on the planet.
What in the fuck are you talking about?
Obama hasn't been in office for 2 years.
Please do try to keep up.