October 8, 2018

 

10/8/18: Now that Judge Kavanaugh and his innocent weenie have been confirmed to the Supreme Court, the president can’t resist taking a victory lap and insulting the accusers. Previously, he had said that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was a “fine woman” and a “very credible witness.” 

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“It was all made up. It was fabricated and it’s a disgrace.” 

President Trump

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Now, Trump is back to gratuitous insults. At various points during the day he tells reporters the judge was “caught up in a hoax set up by the Democrats…The things they said about him, I don’t even think he ever heard of the words. It was all made up. It was fabricated and it’s a disgrace and I think it’s gonna really show you something come November 6.” 

It turns out, after listening to testimony, more Americans came away believing Dr. Ford than Judge Kavanaugh. According to NPR, 45% of Americans believed her while 32% believed him. A second poll showed that 51 percent of Americans did not want the judge confirmed vs. 40 percent who did. In terms of the sexual allegations, 52 percent, in that second poll, believed the judge’s accusers, 38 percent bought his denial. Among women – who tend to be victims of most sexual assaults – the numbers were 61 percent to 31 percent against Judge Kavanaugh. 

It didn’t matter. Trump was having none of it! The Judge, he said, had been “really tortured.” What Democrats did to him was a “disgrace.” “I thought it was one of the most disgraceful performances I’ve ever seen.”

 

Monday afternoon the Groper-in-Chief was at it again. “He’s a great person,” Trump said of the new Supreme Court justice, “and it was very, very unfair what happened to him. False charges, false accusations, horrible statements that were totally untrue that he knew nothing about. It was a disgraceful situation, brought about by people that are evil [emphasis added] and he toughed it out.” 

Monday night, the president confirmed Kavanaugh on television, even though he had been sworn in Sunday. Naturally, Trump couldn’t move on, nor acknowledge there were ever reasons for concern: 

On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. Not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process.

 

Our country, a man or a woman, must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. And with that I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. Thank you.

 

Yes, that’s right: Trump was calling for “fairness, decency and due process” for all Americans.

 

Oddly enough, Trump had a different point of view when a Democratic senator, Al Franken, was accused of inappropriate touching and having posted a photograph in poor taste. At the time, he wanted Franken gone. 

Now, having seen Kavanaugh prevail, despite the accusations of three women, the president had to go back to the Franken case. Suddenly, he no longer believed Franken was guilty. Or he didn’t care if he was. 

At a campaign rally he mocked the former senator. And Trump’s fans – apparently incapable of remembering his previous positions – ate up his insults. “That guy was wacky. Boy did he fold up like a wet rag, huh?” Trump said at a rally in Rochester, Minnesota, Franken’s home state. 

“He was gone so fast, I don’t want to mention Al Franken’s name, he was gone so fast,” he added.

 

For some “odd” reason recent polls have shown that a solid majority of men approve of the job Trump is doing as president while women disapprove. A July poll found that men preferred Republican candidates by eight points in the midterms, and women preferred Democrats by a margin of…58 percent to 33 percent.