“I applaud Christine Blasey Ford for her courage in coming forward”, he wrote. The allegation was a “hoax” orchestrated by the “deranged left”, the account tweeted. Hill is now leading an entertainment industry commission on sexual harassment, launched after allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein and other industry figures. Trump said senators hearing Ford’s accusations, if she testifies, “will open it up and they will do a very good job” considering Ford’s allegations and Kavanaugh’s adamant denial that he has ever been involved in any attack on a woman.
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Until Monday, Trump had remained silent about the allegations against Kavanaugh.
While some senators grilled or dismissed Hill, former vice president Joe Biden, who led the Senate Judiciary Committee during Thomas’s nomination, has been criticized for his oversight of the hearings – particularly for failing to protect her from hostile questioning and failing to allow four women to testify in her support. They’ve had this information, they did not ask him about it and now we’re kind of going through that.
“That’s not really what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for”, Rinckey said. “Karma is a bitch and it will be visiting you very very soon”. Now [Feinstein has] talked to [Blasey Ford] and got her to agree to come forward publicly.
But she’s not wrong to call on men to prevent other men from using their power to abuse-and avoid the consequences of abuse.
A day earlier, Republicans abruptly agreed to hold a public Judiciary Committee hearing at which Kavanaugh and Ford have been invited to testify.
Mr. Manley recalls his time as a young staffer in the Senate when Anita Hill accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991. He groped her and tried to pull off her clothes and a one-piece bathing suit – all while holding his hand over her mouth so she couldn’t scream.
Sources told CNN that Kavanaugh has hired attorney Beth Wilkinson to represent him. In both, he details the drinking and debauchery he took part in while at Prep. He did not mention whether they had tried to contact Ford by phone. “There are some gaps there that need to be filled”.
While that’s the biggest problem with the Wall Street Journal editorial on Ford and Kavanaugh, it’s not the only one. One called it a “calculated political ambush”.
The legal team’s letter says that Prof Ford’s family has been forced to move out of their home, her email has been hacked and she has been impersonated online. He always conducted himself honorably with me at all times when we were together.
Elsewhere, particularly online, the questioning has veered into more vicious territory – and claimed other casualties.
Ford is now a psychology professor at California’s Palo Alto University. The piece highlighted poor reviews of Christine A. Ford’s teaching by students between 2010 and 2014.
“I was absolutely shocked, I couldn’t believe it”, Maura Fitzgerald told Fox News.
“He wasn’t going to vote for Brett Kavanaugh to be on the Supreme Court in the first place”, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said of Leahy, who appeared before her on the PBS NewsHour Monday night. She declined to say if she had faced any threats. She’s pissed because not enough people are taking Ford’s allegations seriously and therefore aren’t taking the approval of a possible Supreme Court judge seriously. Caldwell reported that Hatch’s impression of the situation after speaking with Kavanaugh is that Ford could be “mixed up” about what happened.
The connection “could explain motive or fuel conspiracy”, conservative columnist Eric Erickson tweeted Monday.
The investigation can also be complicated because Ford never filed a report with police at the time and if charges were brought, the defense would likely question the timing of the allegations. Murkowski said Ford’s story “must be taken seriously”. “She had to have her kids stay somewhere else”. “And now with social media and tweets that appear to be accidental comments or relationships have a potential to be significant”.
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Asked about the situation several times during the day, Trump did not mention Ford’s name but said he felt “terribly” for Kavanaugh, his wife “and for his lovely young daughters”.
