Trump says his mocking of Christine Blasey Ford doesn't matter because 'we won'

President Trump is taking credit for the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, telling Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes Sunday night that had he not mocked Christine Blasey Ford during a rally in Mississippi early this month, "we would not have won."

Ford, a professor from California, says that when they were teenagers, Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. After her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month regarding the alleged incident, Trump stood in front of a crowd in Mississippi and falsely claimed Ford couldn't remember any of the details. "I was just saying she didn't seem to know anything," Trump told Stahl. "And you're trying to destroy a life of a man who has been extraordinary."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.