Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I find these attacks on the judiciary absolutely abhorrent and unacceptable."

"I have serious and grave concerns. I am deeply troubled by his failure to commit to certain responses, his lack of an explicit response and commitment to condemn these comments by Donald Trump publicl..."

"This combination of the president's attacks on the judiciary goes to the core, absolutely to a foundational principle of our constitutional system."

"This condemnation has to be public, direct, explicit, because he has to show the American people that he will be independent."