Comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell drew ire on social media Wednesday for a tweet aimed at Sen. Lindsey Graham after a third woman accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.
“fuck u u closeted idiot – this is the patriarchy exposed – this is reality deal with it!!” O’Donnell posted on Twitter using the hashtags “NoKavanaughConfirmation” and “NotMyPresident.”
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fuck u u closeted idiot – this is the patriarchy exposed – this is reality deal with it !!#NoKavanaughConfirmation #NotMyPresident
— ROSIE (@Rosie) September 26, 2018
Twitter users were quick to condemn O’Donnell’s tweet for being homophobic.
.@jack @TwitterSupport It would appear that Rosie is dehumanizing Graham, as well as using homophobic slurs.
— (((Charlie Martin))) (@chasrmartin) September 26, 2018
Dear @Rosie here is a copy of @Twitter new rules. You need them. pic.twitter.com/qfgwB3eHjU
— Kim Moore (@Klm187) September 26, 2018
O’Donnell is a lesbian who has been married twice, while Graham, who has never been married, has denied being gay.
The South Carolina Republican senator expressed doubts Wednesday regarding the claim of a third woman who alleges Kavanaugh was present during a Maryland high school party in the 1980s where she says she was gang raped. Julie Swetnick, who is being represented by porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti, accused the judge in a sworn declaration earlier Wednesday of behaving inappropriately toward women as a teenager, including spiking their drinks and touching them without their consent.
“I very much believe in allowing people to be heard,” Graham wrote on Twitter. “But I am not going to be played, and I’m not going to have my intelligence insulted by the Michael Avenattis of the world. I will not be a participant in wholesale character assassination that defies credibility.”
Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez have also leveled sexual misconduct allegations at Kavanaugh. Ford is due to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday to address her claim the judge drunkenly groped her and tried to remove her clothes during a high school party in 1982. Ramirez has accused Kavanaugh of thrusting his penis in her face during a Yale University undergraduate party in the 1983-1984 academic school year, forcing her to come into contact with it as she pushed him away.
Kavanaugh has vehemently denied all the allegations. He dismissed Swetnick’s claims Wednesday as “ridiculous.”
“This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone. I don’t know who this is and this never happened,” Kavanaugh said in a statement via the White House.
O’Donnell has been vocal in her criticism of President Trump, including leading a Broadway-inspired protest of his administration in August outside the White House. The pair have exchanged insults on Twitter for more than a decade.
