Posted on 09/21/2018 8:33:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenged the credibility of the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement.
Trump’s change in tone — and apparent shift in tactics — came as Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers negotiated with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terms for her possible testimony next week in a dramatic showdown over her accusation that threatens Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Trump tweeted: “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”
The president previously had avoided naming Ford or plainly casting doubt on her account. Ford alleges that at a party when they were teenagers 30 years ago a drunken Kavanaugh held her down on a bed, tried to remove her clothing and clapped his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream before she managed to escape. Kavanaugh has denied all parts of the allegation.
The accusation has jarred the 53-year-old conservative jurist’s prospects for winning confirmation, which until Ford’s emergence last week had seemed all but certain. It has also bloomed into a broader clash over whether women alleging abuse are taken seriously and how both political parties address such claims with the advent of the #MeToo movement — a theme that could echo in this November’s elections for control of Congress.
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He is right about this.
There is nothing uncivil in the tone of his tweets. It’s a pretty obvious question.
The President ploughs ahead.
I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
He is right, but his first tack in addressing it was the more oroductive
baa haa haa
According to ap/cnn/msnbc etc. Trump has never had a civil tone.
He’s like a bulldozer.
People for forget his personal motto; “Never give up.”
Indeed. I call him the Honey Badger President. He isn’t fazed, he just moves forward.
Good! I never believed her.
Trump tweeted: “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”
What part is uncivil? What part slams that nutjob?
I woke this morning and for some reason it reasonated in me that “if you are not going to speak truth or facts, then there is no good reason to speak” -me.
Too many people in my life and that I hear about like news etc., say things just because they think it’s what the person wants to hear or to the extent of out right trying to manipulate people.
I’m tired of being around the bs in people coming out their mouths and making messes that really do not need to be if they would just keep their mouths shut.
Kudos to President Trump.
But it would be nice if she was simply called a liar.
The abused women by Bill Clinton were more than willing to be heard - in fact they tried many times, only to be denigrated by Crooked H herself. And big media played right along.
He tolerated this nutty woman’s crap for a week. That’s got to be a record.
The timing of the accusation was just too fishy to believe.
Clinton was a governor and Hillary went after some of those women. Ford would have no reason to not report this.
The left doesn’t want civil tones from the right. They want passification.
It can only stop by having a huge majority of Republicans in the Congress.
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