Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake says US President Donald Trump’s mocking of Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, was “not right” and “kind of appalling.”
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a rally on October 2, 2018, in Southaven, Mississippi, United States. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
But Flake isn’t saying whether he’ll vote to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Ford alleges Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. He denies the accusation.
Trump mocked Ford at a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday night, listing what he described as holes in her account as his audience laughed.
Flake tells NBC’s “Today” show that mocking “something this sensitive at a political rally is just not right.”
Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator Jeff Flake, center, speaks with colleagues after a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 28, 2018,. (AFP/ Brendan Smialowski)
“I wish he hadn’t done it. It’s kind of appalling,” he adds.
Christine Blasey Ford, center, flanked by attorneys Debra Katz, left, and Michael Bromwich, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on September 27,2018. (Tom Williams/AFP)
Flake, who is retiring from the Senate, said last week he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh, but then called for an expanded FBI investigation of the accusations, delaying the confirmation timetable.
Flake says he’d be concerned if the FBI only followed up on a few leads.
— AP
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