Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C. jokes that Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Abe Lincoln groped her.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., reportedly mocked the sexual assault allegation dogging Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday, joking that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently accused Abraham Lincoln of groping her.
"Did y’all hear this latest late-breaking news from the Kavanaugh hearings?" Norman said during his opening remarks of a debate against his Democratic challenger Thursdayin South Carolina, according to The Post and Courier. "Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out that she was groped by Abraham Lincoln."
The congressman made the joke after telling the crowd that he almost had to miss the debate and travel back to Washington to address the accusation.
The off-color remark appeared to poke fun at Ginsburg's age — she is 85 — and the recent sexual assault allegations made against Kavanaugh by California professor Christine Blasey Ford. Ford alleges that Kavanaugh drunkenly tried to force himself on her while they were teenagers in Maryland in the 1980s. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegation.
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