Trump says mockery of Kavanaugh accuser got him confirmed

[Initech]

President Donald Trump defended his widely criticized mocking of Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, saying in an interview that aired Sunday night that "if I had not made that speech, we would not have won."

The Senate narrowly confirmed Kavanaugh to the court on Oct. 6 after an extraordinarily bitter battle. Ford testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were in high school during the 1980s, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that she thought she would "accidentally be killed." Kavanaugh strenuously denied the allegation.

The interview was conducted Thursday and was aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

The vote came a few days after Trump ridiculed Ford in a speech in Southaven, Mississippi, an address that outraged Democrats and many advocates of women's rights.

"I was just saying she didn't seem to know anything," Trump said in the CBS interview.

Challenged by "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl that he had been disrespectful to a woman who believed she had been victimized, Trump said: "You know what? I'm not going to get into it, because we won. It doesn't matter. We won."
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Bull fucking shit!!!! They were going to plow through that nomination no matter what the excuse was! God damn him!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's because he has to take credit for everything.

We all know the Senate would have confirmed Kavanaugh even if a dead body and a couple of kilos of meth had been found in his in his trunk, regardless of anything Spanky might have said, but he wants everything to be on account of him.

[NanceGreggs]

2. How nice to know ...

... that our Supreme Court justices are now supposedly confirmed on the basis of how brutally the so-called "pResident" mocks a woman.

[BigmanPigman]

3. How much do I hate him?

Is infinite a number?

[Initech]

9. He's the absolute worst!

[Cha]

4. Fuck Off you Stupid Vile POS.. Not fit to serve.

[duforsure]

5. I thought

It was the russian bribe from putin to Collins and other gop Senators that sealed the deal with a lot of money funneled to them that got kavanaugh installed illegitimately?

[malaise]

6. Winning is all that matters to that

Vile cretin.
Vote them out.

[beachbum bob]

7. the sham FBI investigtion and the coverup got him confirmed as ordered by Trump

the mockery of ford has sent more voters to democrats and I thank him for that

[Initech]

10. The Good Old Frat Boys are in charge and they turned our government into their frat house.

[beachbum bob]

12. rich white entitled minded will never go away or lose power until "we the people" act...

the greatest fear of the 1% is democracy and voters they can't control. The intellectually lazy conservatives/republicans prove every day how easy it is to fool and manipulate them

[Odoreida]

8. Hate to say it, but he is probably right.

The mockery was Trump's way of putting political pressure on Republican senators, rather than a direct do-it-or-else.

And it's mighty clear the mockery was popular with the base.

[bdamomma]

11. nt