President Trump's staff was hoping against hope that he wouldn't mock Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified last week about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's alleged rape attempt, but "he couldn't resist," Jimmy Kimmel said on Wednesday's Kimmel Live. "You know, I'd say I'm starting to think a bipolar sociopath with no moral compass might not have been our best choice for president." But it wasn't just Trump, he added. "The people in the crowd, when he did this, they loved it. He mocked this woman's story about a sexual assault, they ate it up, they laughed, they cheered. I really don't understand it. And by the way, this event was a rally to support Mississippi's first-ever female senator."
The White House is insisting that Trump wasn't mocking Ford, but key swing Senate Republicans distanced themselves from his comments, and "he even got a bad review from his closest friends," Kimmel noted. "When Fox & Friends thinks Trump blew it, it got blown."
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