For the first time, President Donald Trump directly mocked professor Christine Blasey Ford Tuesday night, posing a series of sarcastic questions to laughter and applause from a Mississippi rally crowd.
“How do you get home? I don’t remember. How did you get there? I don’t remember. How many years ago? 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 is the house? I don’t know. Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” he said.
Though it’s not unusual for victims of trauma to forget some logistical details about their attacks, Blasey Ford did actually testify about some of the specifics Trump listed related to her alleged assault, including details about the room where she says it occurred.
Trump then pivoted away from the alleged victim to heap sympathy upon her alleged attacker, saying that his life is in “tatters.”
“A man’s life is shattered. His wife is shattered and his daughters who are beautiful and young kids,” he said. “They destroy people, they want to destroy people. These are really evil people,” he said, presumably referring to Democrats.
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I really recommend not watching the clip. I knew exactly what I was going to see and it still fucked me up. It’s truly horrible. The cheering and applause are the ugliest things I’ve heard in a long time.
OK, I just saw this on TV and have determined that Donnie has absolutely no shame whatsoever.
I hope his voters are proud.
I guess they are.
Nursing note, 8:30 p.m.:
Staff meets to discuss status and mission, votes to reclassify parties. Trump now the disease, USA now the pt.
Condition serious but immune system still functional. Big test ahead.
I’d guess we know what kinda people took tickets for Nuremberg in the '30s.
I saw enough of the original films to skip this sequel.
After this, it’d seem that ‘deplorables’ was a kindness.
When the Dems take over they better run investigations for the next 10 years and lock up all these old white guys that care more for power and money than anything else.