E.J. Dionne Jr. writes—Trump’s lying, mocking, despicable verbal mugging of Christine Blasey Ford:
Trump regularly and unashamedly reminds us of his vileness and thus single-handedly demolishes the everybody-does-it narrative.
Trump’s lying, mocking, despicable verbal mugging of Christine Blasey Ford during a Mississippi rally on Tuesday night may not be a new low for him because there have been so many other lows. But his willingness to suggest that Ford is one of the “evil people” and his twisted account of her testimony about Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee ripped the mask of respectability off the campaign to confirm Trump’s appointee.
The president made it harder than ever for those who vote for Kavanaugh to claim they are still taking Ford’s testimony seriously. If you claim that Ford is part of some wicked left-wing operation to destroy a good man, you are saying that her story is just that — a made-up, untrue or exaggerated “story” with a political purpose.
xSo this is what the 1850s were like.
— Robert Cruickshank (@cruickshank) October 4, 2018 x“I feel like I’m being silenced." The FBI declined to interview primary witnesses related to the Kavanaugh allegations it was tasked with reviewing. Some of them resorted to sending in unsolicited sworn statements, which @JaneMayerNYer and I obtained: https://t.co/nY1uGCQ2Ki
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) October 4, 2018
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