FIRST WORD
It demonstrates the reason that so many sexual assault survivors are deterred or discouraged from coming forward because they face exactly this kind of public shaming and character assassination.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., to USA TODAY on Wednesday before a subcommittee hearing on the Olympic sex abuse scandal. Blumenthal was referring to President Trump’s mockery of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during a Tuesday appearance. Blasey Ford testified last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in the 1980s.