Reuters: Key senators criticize Trump for mocking Kavanaugh accuser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two moderate Republicans who could be pivotal in determining whether the Senate confirms U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for mocking a woman who has accused the judge of sexual assault.
Senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins were among the lawmakers who took issue with comments Trump made regarding Christine Blasey Ford, a university professor from California who detailed her sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh at an extraordinary Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week.
At a political rally in Mississippi on Tuesday night, Trump mocked Ford’s testimony about the alleged assault in Maryland in 1982 when she was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17.
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Update #1: Collins, Murkowski and Flake condemn Trump's comments mocking Ford (Yahoo News)
Update #2: Key Republican senators condemn Trump's mockery of Ford (CNN)
WNU Editor: I listened to what President Trump said in yesterday's rally (see above video). He is not mocking her .... he is pointing out Christine Blasey Ford's inconsistencies and holes in her claims. The punchline is that the ones who are now condemning President Trump are also well aware of her inconsistencies and contradictions. But this is Washington politics, and for those who are insecure, a means for them to run for cover. As for the media who are covering these stories, they can now avoid stories of U.S. record wage increases, decades low unemployment, stock market boom, international trade deals, and sky-high confidence that the U.S. is moving in the right direction.
