Lindsey Graham's Hypocrisy on Sexual Assault Victims, Unveiled

[Fred Sanders]

https://thinkprogress.org/blumenthal-graham-book-quote-kavanaugh-ford-hearing-b0f8106ffe81/

In his 2015 autobiography, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wrote about the importance of believing sexual assault survivors. On Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) read a passage from that book during Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to call out Graham’s hostility toward Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers.

“The senators from the other side of the aisle have been silent,” Blumenthal said, referring to his Republican colleagues, who used a sex crimes prosecutor to ask Ford questions on their behalf. “This procedure is unprecedented in a confirmation hearing, but I want to quote one of my colleagues, Sen. Lindsey Graham, in a book he wrote in 2015 when describing his own service and very distinguished Naval service as a trial lawyer.”

“[Sen. Graham] said…of his prosecutions of rape cases, ‘I learned how much unexpected courage from a deep and hidden place it takes for a rape victim or sexually abused child to testify against their assailants,'” Blumenthal read, repeating the quote twice.

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"Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of hypocrisy"

Richard B. Garnett

[John Fante]

1. How did Lindsay react to that?