Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono argued on CNN Sunday that Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins insulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford by saying that she believed Ford was assaulted, but not by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Collins said, both in her now infamous floor speech on Friday and during a segment on CNN’s “State of the Union,” that she believed that Dr. Ford was the victim of some trauma in her past, but that she did not believe that trauma came at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh.
Hirono responded, “She said she thinks that Dr. Ford thinks she was assaulted, which is even more insulting than saying she gave a very credible account. I certainly believe Dr. Ford. Anyone watching her testimony would conclude she was being very truthful. One thing she recollects with 100 percent accuracy is that Judge Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her.”
Guest host Dana Bash pressed Hirono further, asking, “You think that Senator Collins is insulting to Professor Ford?”
“To say that she thinks that Dr. Ford thinks that she was assaulted, what is that?” Hirono fired back. “Is she mistaken? She, herself, said she spoke to so many survivors from her state and elsewhere. All of us have been hearing stories and accounts from survivors going back many, many years where they kept all these painful, traumatic accounts to this is what happens with sexual assault survivors. They do not come forward.”
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