Collins: Trump mocking of Ford 'just plain wrong'
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(3 Oct 2018) Two wavering Republican senators lambasted President Donald Trump on Wednesday for mocking a woman who has claimed Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, underscoring the risks of assailing Kavanaugh's three accusers as Senate support teeters for the Supreme Court nominee. The blowback to Trump's scoffing at Christine Blasey Ford came as lawmakers awaited results of a revived FBI background check, expected imminently, on accusations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh in high school and college. At a political rally in Mississippi Tuesday night, Trump mimicked Ford's responses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week at which she recounted Kavanaugh's alleged attack on her when both were in high school. The audience laughed as Trump, at times inaccurately, recounted what he described as holes in her testimony. On NBC's "Today" show Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said that ridiculing "something this sensitive at a political rally is just not right." Flake added, "I wish he hadn't done it. It's kind of appalling." Separately, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters, "The president's comments were just plain wrong." Trump's comments about Ford reflected a growing frustration among some in the White House, and by the president, that her story has not received the same level of scrutiny as Kavanaugh's, said a person close to the process who was not authorized to speak publicly. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e4894a12af8eff47d6edc96cc0deaa40
