Kavanaugh Hearing Revisited

When Michael Cohen was testifying in open session, at one point Trump lieutenant Mark Meadows was trying to rebut the idea that Trump is racist. During this bit, he had a black woman named Patton, apparently one of the few black people who work for Trump, come and stand beside him. She just stood there awkwardly for 30 seconds or so, not saying anything and not mentioned; and when a junior Democrat accused Meadows of using her as a prop in a racist way, Meadows hit the roof. Paul Waldman at the Plum Line compared the incident to the Kavanaugh hearing:

You’ll recall that when Christine Blasey Ford testified, she was calm, controlled, deferential and polite, because she knew that if she displayed any anger she’d be called a lunatic and her allegations dismissed out of hand. Kavanaugh, on the other hand, was utterly unhinged — crying, shouting, sneering, interrupting senators — and his anger was taken not as evidence that he was unreliable but just the opposite. It was considered proof that he was the true aggrieved party and the victim of a terrible injustice that had to be remedied.

Seth Myers, Green Book Criticism