Irish Daily Mirror

Trump hits a Supreme new low..

- LORD HENRY

This week is all about Donald Trump. Quite frankly his behaviour hit a new low. At a rally, he ridiculed the testimony that Christine Blasey Ford gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee who were considerin­g the appointmen­t of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

It was a vicious and vile attack and a total contradict­ion of what he had previously said when he called her a “very credible witness”.

Trump, one has to remember, stands accused of multiple incidents of inappropri­ate behaviour against women and if he thinks by attacking Prof Ford he somehow belittles his own accusers he is much mistaken.

However, it was also profoundly shocking to see the reaction of the attendees at the rally. They clapped and cheered, probably feeding into the conviction in this megalomani­ac’s head that he can do and say what he likes.

My only hope is this disgusting behaviour will backfire and persuade those Republican senators that are wavering over Kavanaugh’s appointmen­t to vote against him. Now to the judge himself. I firmly believe his testimony proved that irrespecti­ve of whether he sexually assaulted Professor Ford that he is highly unsuitable for the Supreme Court.

I found the interview that his former room-mate at Yale gave to Anderson Cooper on CNN highly convincing. He stated the judge was a belligeren­t drunk who often puked after a session.

This was very different from the portrait of a benign drinker who said over and over again that he liked beer. However, the central issue here is not his drinking during his college years but the fact it now seems he lied under oath to a Senate Judiciary Committee. That alone should disqualify him. Further to the point, his behaviour during the hearing merely underlined his unsuitabil­ity. ow back to Trump. This week the myth that he was a brilliant businessma­n was seriously debunked. An extensivel­y researched article the NY Times has proven he was in fact in receipt of hundreds of millions of dollars and his father Fred often bailed him out. Moreover it has been suggested the Trump family may have used dubious schemes to evade taxes.

The NY authoritie­s have a reputation for being relentless. If they find evidence of tax evasion it will make a serious dent in Trump’s fortune. His mantra that he has built a 10 billion dollar corporatio­n from a million dollar loan from his father is now seen to be absolute bunkum, rather like the man himself.

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