Trump mocking Christine Blasey Ford shows how women are silenced | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Ford is facing the same humiliation as thousands of sexual assault complainants before her. We need to rip up this script of male domination

I believe Dr Christine Blasey Ford. I found her testimony of a violent sexual assault by supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh powerful and convincing, as did many, many others who watched her give evidence before the Senate committee last week. Even Donald Trump said at the time: “I thought her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman to me, very fine woman.”

It is of course foolish to expect any kind of consistency from that man. He had already questioned on Twitter why the 15-year-old Ford had not reported the assault to police. And on Tuesday night, at a campaign rally in Mississippi, he mocked her and her testimony in front of a baying and cheering audience. We already know that Trump considers himself to be quite the impressionist, and so here we see him imitating her inability to remember certain details from the events of that night 40 years ago.

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