Trump's FBI attacks laid groundwork for GOP to reject probe of Kavanaugh sexual assault allegation
By James Hohmann
September 20 at 9:44 AM
THE BIG IDEA: President Trump’s simultaneous attacks on the FBI’s investigation into his 2016 campaign and refusal to ask the bureau to investigate an allegation of sexual assault against his Supreme Court nominee are impossible to separate.
On Tuesday, Trump touted his order to declassify highly sensitive documents related to the Russia probe. He said he has not read the files but expressed confidence that they will show the FBI’s case started because of a “hoax.”
“I hope to be able put this up as one of my crowning achievements that I was able to ... expose something that is truly a cancer in our country,” the president said during an interview with The Hill.
Within hours of describing a “cancer” inside the FBI, Trump declined a request to reopen the bureau’s background investigation into Brett Kavanaugh after Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford publicly accused the judge of attempted rape during a house party in the 1980s when they were both teenagers.
“I don’t think the FBI really should be involved, because they don’t want to be involved,” Trump told reporters. “If they wanted to be, I would certainly do that, but as you know, they say this is not really their thing.”
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