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Before hearing on sex abuse in sports, Richard Blumenthal condemns Trump mocking Blasey Ford

President Trump mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Supreme Court nominee Brett Ka USA TODAY

As a Senate subcommittee prepared Wednesday for its fourth hearing in six months on the Olympic sex abuse scandal, ranking member Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., condemned President Trump’s mockery of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as a “vile, shameful attack” that “disrespects and demeans … all the community of survivors.”

In a telephone interview before the hearing, Blumenthal sharply criticized Trump’s comments ridiculing Blasey Ford, who testified Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party in the Washington, D.