MSNBC Guest on Graham’s Tirade to Ford’s Testimony: ‘I Need to Apologize for All Men for What You Just Heard’

Just after Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford concluded her emotional testimony before Congress on Thursday, Sen. Lindsay Graham spoke to the media about what he thought of the proceedings.

The visibly angry senator responded by saying by ticking off his grievances against the Democrats and saying this: “The friends on the other side set it up to be just the way it is. I feel ambushed as the majority.”

He also insisted Ford, who he called a “nice lady” was “just as much a victim” as Kavanaugh.

In response, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the  Southern District of New York Daniel Goldman said that based on Graham’s reaction, he feels he needs to apologize on behalf of all men.

“I need to apologize for all men for what you just heard,” Goldman said during a panel discussing Graham’s words. “It is shameful the way that he disdainfully dismisses what she so emotionally about emphatically just said. To claim that you need a location or you need a date to remember a traumatic experience is completely fallacious and should never ever ever be uttered by anyone. I don’t know how this will play out politically but Lindsay Graham is trying to set this up as a court of law by talking about presumption of innocence…That’s not what we’re doing here.”

He continued on: “That’s not what the purpose of this is here. As a man, as I sat there listening to Dr. Ford, I was moved. That was incredibly powerful. You don’t have to be a woman. You don’t have to be a prosecutor. You can just be a human being to feel her struggle and her difficulty and for Lindsey Graham to get up there and belittle her right after it and try to make this into a political gamesmanship is disrespectful and a disservice to the process.”

Watch above, via MSNBC

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