Key 3 in GOP rip Trump’s mocking

Three GOP senators who could decide Brett Kavanaugh’s fate blasted President Trump Wednesday for mocking Christine Blasey Ford over her allegations that the Supreme Court nominee sexually attacked her.

“There’s no time and no place for remarks like that. To discuss something this sensitive at a political rally is just not right. It’s just not right. I wish he hadn’t had done it,” Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake told NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday, adding, “It’s kind of appalling.”

But he later told The Washington Post that Trump’s remarks would not affect his vote.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said, “The president’s comments were just plain wrong.”

Said Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, “I thought the president’s comments yesterday mocking Dr. Ford were wholly inappropriate and in my view unacceptable.”

Asked whether they would affect her vote, she replied, “I am taking everything into account.”

Even South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — one of Trump’s most fervent fans in Congress — was critical.

“I don’t like what the president said last night. President Trump went through a factual rendition and I didn’t like it. I would tell him to knock it off — it’s not helpful,” he said at an event in DC before minimizing the incident.

While Ford admitted she could not recall all of the details of the alleged incident in 1982, she did provide more information than Trump’s version of her testimony.

“The president was stating facts,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. “Every single word Judge Kavanaugh has said has been picked apart. Yet if anybody says anything about the accusations that have been thrown against him, that’s totally off-limits and outrageous.”