Republican Senators Are Doing Themselves No Favors with Their Quotes on the Kavanaugh Hearings
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Republican Senators were already demonstrating just how little respect they have for women and the American public with the shameful circus of the Kavanaugh hearings, and their own words don’t prove much else.
Reporters Sarah D. Wire and Emma Dumain followed two senators during the proceedings, and their responses to the trial were alarming, if not necessarily surprising.
Asked as he left for the lunch break if Ford is credible, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said “It’s too early to say. I don’t think she’s uncredible, I think she’s an attractive, good witness.”
Asked to clarify what he meant by attractive, Hatch said “in other words, she is pleasing.”— Sarah D. Wire (@sarahdwire) September 27, 2018
A woman just told @LindseyGrahamSC she was raped. He said, as he headed into an elevator, “I’m sorry. Tell the cops.”
— Emma Dumain (@Emma_Dumain) September 27, 2018
Dr. Christine Ford opened with a harrowing, eight-page testimony in which she detailed her allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but it looks like Sen. Hatch has other criteria in mind when considering whether to believe women who choose to come forward with some of the most painful stories of their lives. Sen. Graham, too, doesn’t offer much empathy for those who choose not to report for any number of reasons, something that the GOP response to Dr. Ford’s allegations has made clear on an unavoidably public scale.