Dear Mr. Trump,

So now the truth comes out, as I knew it would.

You have mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a victim of sexual assault, in as cruel and ugly a way as could be imagined. Not only did you mock her through your words, you mocked her with your derisive tone.

Through this childish but bullying behavior, you signal to your base that all women’s claims of sexual abuse should be ignored, ridiculed, castigated, and buried, because – oh my! – they might tarnish a man’s reputation.

Who are these men you’re so concerned about? The men who try to rip a girl’s clothes from her body and laugh while doing it. The men who press their hands over their victims’ mouths to stifle the scream for help and laugh while doing it. The men who drug their victims before having unconsented sex with them and laugh while doing it. The men, like you Sir, who brag about “grabbing p***y” and the men who are out and out rapists. You, Sir, have given courage to all such men, men whom you see as too good to be challenged with their criminal misdeeds.

This is the low point to which you have brought the Republican Party. You and your party are beneath the gutter, unless Senators Flake, Collins, and Murkowski show that they are still human beings concerned with our country — that they have not been entirely corrupted by you — by voting against your man.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger