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Trump Supports Kavanaugh After Sexual Assault Allegations

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The president needs a Supreme Court win to show his core supporters in the November midterms.

President Donald Trump was counting on being able to deliver on one core promise to his supporters ahead of November’s crucial midterms: Locking in a conservative Supreme Court majority.

The White House went into overdrive late Sunday trying to keep that pledge alive, even as Republican senators joined Democrats in calling to delay a committee vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination after Christine Blasey Ford stepped forward to publicly to accuse the judge of sexual assault decades ago.

Immediately after The Washington Post published an explosive story featuring an on-the-record interview with Ford that detailed her allegations, Trump’s allies – both inside and outside the White House – launched a campaign to cast doubt on her account.

More than half a dozen current and former White House officials or people close to the president said that Trump will continue to stand behind Kavanaugh, even as they were increasingly resigned to the likelihood that the Senate Judiciary Committee will be compelled to examine the allegations in detail.

“Of course we’re not going to pull the nomination,” said one White House official involved in the confirmation process after retiring Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told POLITICO that he wasn’t comfortable moving ahead on the original timetable.

Four people close to the White House said they expected Republicans to question Ford’s vague recollections of some parts of the episode and why California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on Judiciary, sat on the accusations for months.

Three of them also said they expect the president – still shadowed by the pre-election “Access Hollywood” tape scandal – to go after Ford rather than to turn on Kavanaugh, who was among the judicial candidates pre-vetted and offered to Trump by the Heritage Foundation. They pointed to Trump’s history of denouncing his accusers and those who accused others, including the women who came forward last year to say then-Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had assaulted them years ago.

Kavanaugh’s defenders on Sunday included Meghan McCaleb and Stephanie Conway McGill, two of the 65 high-school acquaintances of Kavanaugh who signed an open letter last week vouching for his character after the allegations were first reported.

“I stand by the letter I signed. I do not know this woman,” said McGill by email on Sunday, referring to Ford. McCaleb added, “I absolutely stand by the letter we signed.”

More than two dozen of the women who signed onto the letter did not immediately respond when contacted by POLITICO on Sunday about whether they still stood behind their defense of Kavanaugh. Two of the women who signed the letter declined to comment.

Trump has become convinced that many of the negative developments that have plagued his administration are the result of an all-out assault by Democrats to undermine his presidency at any cost, according to the people close to the president. The people close to the president said he’s likely to see the allegations against Kavanaugh as simply another element of the supposed conspiracy against him.

Ford told the Washington Post that Kavanaugh groped her, tried to pull off her clothes and covered her mouth when she tried to scream at a party in Maryland more than three decades ago.

The White House issued the same statement Sunday on Kavanaugh’s behalf that it did last week when the allegations against him first surfaced: “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”

A lawyer close to the White House said the nomination will not be withdrawn. “No way, not even a hint of it,” the lawyer said. “If anything, it’s the opposite. If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried. We can all be accused of something.”
This lawyer added: “It’s not even going to slow him down if that’s all she’s got.”

The lawyer, who was in touch Sunday with White House staffers, pointed at Kavanaugh’s steadfast denials that anything happened: “It’d be one thing if Kavanaugh said I made out with her. But Kavanaugh is saying this didn’t happen. He’s saying this is not true.”

Democrats and Republicans on the Judiciary panel were already at odds over Democratic complaints that Kavanaugh’s nomination was being rushed through with incomplete access to records of his service in President George W. Bush’s White House.

It’s highly unusual for Supreme Court nominees to withdraw. The last to do so was Harriet Miers, who was nominated in 2005 by Bush to replace departing Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The nomination drew a sharply negative reaction from conservatives, who feared Miers, who was Bush’s White House counsel, was too moderate, lacked a record of originalist legal interpretation and was appointed chiefly because she was a “crony” of the president.

Bush aides were taken aback by the criticism and initially tried to move ahead. But after more than three weeks of withering criticism, the White House pulled the nomination, ostensibly at Miers’ request. Four days later, Bush nominated 3rd Circuit Judge Samuel Alito, who was confirmed after an uneventful three-month process, 58-42.

The Ford allegations have raised stark parallels to the harassment claims made in 1991 by Anita Hill shortly before the scheduled vote on Clarence Thomas’ nomination.

Hill’s gripping public testimony set a potentially dangerous precedent for Trump – though Trump allies said they were confident that if Ford speaks to the committee, it would be in a closed session.

One outside Trump adviser was quick to suggest an effort to have Ford testify publicly amid the ongoing #MeToo wave would backfire on Democrats. “They’re playing a high-stakes game right now,” this adviser said. “You know there are a lot of people in this country who are parents of high school boys. This is not Anita Hill.”

source: politico.com

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Comments 10

  1. Ann. Ellison says:
    3 years ago

    I think these people are absolutely stupid with a Capitol S. Why bring up something that happened 30-40 years. I’m only a little pe’on from wheeler Tx, It I am Smart enough to know they( all the dems and leftiests) are acting like a bunch of first grade school kids. And I guess they will try to slam me now saying I am harassing the first graders now. Thats about their I Q Everybody can and do change over the years. Why can’t they understand that. Keep up the good work Mr President and all you republicans. You have y prayers every day ???

    Reply
  2. russell remmert says:
    3 years ago

    this sounds like a me too arrangement why did she/he wait that many years just another stunt by the demented democrat party

    Reply
  3. Edie Faylor says:
    3 years ago

    Holding up the nomination makes the Democrats even more foolish than they already are. So Feinstein sat on this letter for months, and now the RINOs have another weapon to try to demolish our President. Not going to happen, people, those of us who support Trump will continue to support him and your house of cards will collapse along with the Mueller so called investigation.

    Reply
  4. James says:
    3 years ago

    It’s a crime against America to consider this accusation anything but a Democratic conspiracy to make America a Sanctuary Country.

    Reply
  5. Togno says:
    3 years ago

    This quote by Jessamyn West, American author, 1902-1984, seems appropriate for those who are trying to block Pres. Trump; “We Want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t it is easier to ignore the facts and change the preconceptions.”

    Reply
  6. David J Stevenson says:
    3 years ago

    Why isn’t some Republican investigating some of the Democrats like Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein as they are doing to the Republican’s. I’m sure if they also go back far enough, they can dig up some dirt as we have all did stupid things 35 yrs ago as stupid teenagers !…Seems all the Republican’s are concerned doing is ‘defending themselves’ !!!

    Reply
  7. Clare says:
    3 years ago

    I would ask this accuser hoe much is she getting paid from the Democratic Party to come forward now? Why didn’t she come out when it happened and not wait 36 years to finally feel the hurt and come forward. She is a plant from the left to disgrace the president and the judge. The democrats in the senate make me sick. The PEOPLE SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR ANT DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AND GET THE OLD ONES OUT. There SHOULD BE TERM LIMITS ON SENATORS JUST LIKE FOR THE PRESIDENT. ONE YERM FOR THE SENATOR IS 6 YEARS. THAT IS LONG ENOUGH FOR ANY SENATOR TO BE IN OFFICE. Otherwise they GET TOO POWERFUL BEING IN OFFICE FOR DECADES.

    Reply
  8. Marilyn Groot says:
    3 years ago

    If this happened to me I sure would remember the day, the date, the place and the color of his eyes, every word he said and a lot more!!! A rape is something a woman NEVER forgets the details of no matter how old one becomes. This woman seems pretty foggy on the details to me. Not to mention she waited sooo
    long to mention it. Why didn’t she report it at the time? Why didn’t she report it when he was a Federal Court Judge…why wait till now? Just saying……

    Reply
  9. Norita says:
    3 years ago

    This me-too scheme is in epidemic mode. I believe there have a few cases of this but I also believe it can be both parties fault. It has gotten out of hand. Men don’t stand a chance now against evil women.

    Reply
  10. Joneja Subash says:
    3 years ago

    My appeal to Democrats and Republicans and other parties, please allow the President Mr. Donald Trump to
    Concentrate on the task of Turn Around of Great country U S A. He with his team are showing results , more jobs , Ever strong US Dollar compared to other currencies. Excellent Defence strategy , Foreign policies.
    In trade war mighty China is facing big problems with imposition of Tarrifs , curbs on imports resulting in US
    encouraging indigenous procurement , creating employment , consumer spending ,prosperity all around.
    Good bold initiative to check illegal immigrants to enter US and get rid of bad elements to avoid 9 eleven
    disasters in future. When employment reaches Optimum level , every one will work and Earn and not get money
    for not doing anything. If all eligible work in their assigned field and r looked after and paid for NO one will
    fall sick , good hygienic food at reasonable affordable rates will result in healthy Nation.
    In the event of unforeseen sickness ,illness free Medical treatment to all eligible under Health Schemes.
    Philanthropists Donors to donate liberally to support Government efforts towards Health for All.
    Encourage and enforce technical education and latest technology in teaching from age 2 plus children.
    No child after age 2 should stay at home , must go to nearest school minimum 2 3 days a week.Well qualified
    teachers in Government Schools must be paid well so that they teach the future of the nation in a dedicated
    spirit . Donors names should be prominently displayed in the premises of the institution they patronize.
    Let us all support the President Mr. TRUMP in a positive manner and wait and see. Healthy Critisism is good
    but it is unfair for opposition and Media to criticize and confuse the common man . Donot abuse power of
    Democracy.
    I have not seen Mr. Trump , never met him but I know he was a very shrewd and successful Businessman
    Never in Politics. Business man always foresees by investing time , what will be the Positive Returns.
    Joining hands with any Country for Trade what benefit US will get.
    Mr. Trump will complete this term , will get 2nd term and People will force Government to amend the law
    to allow him to serve the Nation as long as his Health permits !
    Remember, dear Media owners what r our needs , as cross 45 , 50 years age to qualify for real good position
    with maturity, your needs desires for Money , power, property, lavish life , luxury items , and other desires including Sex start fading . U r looking for respect , dignity, good health and desire that people should remember
    You. Mr. Trump has every thing , let him try , keep trying the Best working team , keep changing only those
    who can deliver should stay. USA will remain No. 1 on planet Earth and in Space.
    Good Luck Mr. Donald Trump. God Bless America.
    P.S I want Mr Trump to show to World Leaders , that it is not necessary to have a Politician background to lead
    the Nation, other Developed and Developing countries will follow this philosophy.
    Subash Joneja , New Jersey.
    Sex , get limited.

    Reply

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