The sexual misconduct scandal swirling around Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took a horrifying turn for the worst today, albeit a predictable one. President Trump — an avowed sexual predator himself who has demonstrated time and again that he views the suffering and abuse of women as dismissable when not outright desirable — took to Twitter to blast Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
Trump started his tweet by insisting that Kavanaugh is a fine man, this despite the fact that numerous unsettling details about the judge have emerged since Ford’s allegations were made public, including the fact that he creepily insisted on hiring attractive female clerks and was a member of a misogynist secret society at Yale.
The president claimed that his nominee is “under assault by left wing politicians” who he insists “don’t want to know the answers” but simply want to complicate and delay the confirmation process. In reality, Democrats are the only ones pushing for the truth and have called for the FBI to investigate Ford’s claims so that the full truth of the incident can be uncovered.
“Facts don’t matter,” tweeted the president who made 4,229 false/misleading claims in his first 558 days in office. He added that he must “go through this” with Democrats in D.C. on a daily basis, which is surely just a veiled complaint that the left won’t roll over and let him destroy our democracy in the exact way he wants.
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
Trump wasn’t done with his attacks there, and eighteen minutes later he zeroed in on Ford herself. He made the cruel comment that if the attack on Ford was “as bad as she says” she would have immediately filed charges or her parents would have. The following hours were followed by similar, though no less heinous, tweets.
The radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
Senator Feinstein and the Democrats held the letter for months, only to release it with a bang after the hearings were OVER – done very purposefully to Obstruct & Resist & Delay. Let her testify, or not, and TAKE THE VOTE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
Of course, Ford can hardly be blamed for her reluctance to come forward at the time, as evinced by the massive backlash and smear campaign that has been launched against her in recent days. So bad has the reaction been from elements of the right-wing that Ford has been forced to move for her own safety.
Women who accuse powerful men often face a similar situation. Ford’s decision to come forward now is courageous and spurred by her patriotism and desire to prevent a sexual predator from sitting on America’s highest court.
Trump ended his tweet by demanding that Ford produce contemporaneous law enforcement reports on the attack to prove her claims, documents he knows don’t exist. His entire shameful Twitter performance was a hack political move, designed to undermine Ford and ram Kavanaugh’s confirmation through. It once again reinforces what a man of low character he is and should spur all of us to support Ford even more.
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
