Ok….
Now we have Donald Trump going someplace he’s comfortable at….
Attacking someone trying to stop him from getting what he wants….
It doesn’t matter if it’s a women that has told a story of sexual misconduct, a place Trump has been at several times….
He was asked behind closed doors to stay out of this….
As of now….
He’s all in….
President Donald Trump ignited a crowd at a campaign rally in Mississippi on Tuesday by mocking a woman who has claimed she was sexually assaulted by Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh decades ago.
The audience laughed as Trump ran through a list of what he described as holes in Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She testified that Kavanaugh pinned her on a bed, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth in the early 1980s when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied Ford’s allegations.
“How did you get home? ‘I don’t remember,’” Trump said at the rally in Southaven. “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.’”
Imitating her, he added: “But I had one beer — that’s the only thing I remember.”
It marked the sharpest criticism by Trump of Ford since she came forward publicly with the allegation last month. He had previously called Ford a “very credible witness.”
The president was in Mississippi on Tuesday looking to use his influence to sway the outcome of a low-profile election that could tip the balance of the Senate….
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Donald Trump in mocking Ford is forgetting his own patented defense of ‘forgetting things’ when asked hard questions….
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The White House has closed ranks around the president, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and senior counselor Kellyanne Conway both defending his remarks.
But in the broader Republican Party, there is consternation that the president would risk alienating female voters, in particular, at a time when polls are already showing erosion in the party’s support with women.
“It causes further anger to white, suburban, college-educated women who, to put it mildly, have been skeptical of Trump,” said Heye.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) had pithier advice for Trump.
“I wish he would just stay out of it,” he told reporters.
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