After Tweets Of Praise, Trump Later Described Hearing As 'Brutal,' 'Hard To Watch
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Jon Lemire, Zeke Miller and CATHERINE LUCEY
September 28, 2018 6:36 am
WASHINGTON (AP) Glued to high-stakes testimony on his Supreme Court nominee, President Donald Trump and his allies were shaken by Christine Blasey Fords emotional appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday, but heartened by Judge Brett Kavanaughs forceful pushback against the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct.
Trump missed hardly a moment of the proceedings, relying on DVRs to keep up on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday from his private office on Air Force One as he traveled from New York to Washington, and continued monitoring back at the White House, where Fords voice echoed from TVs around the building.
Within moments of the eight-hour proceedings concluding, Trump tweeted his approval of Kavanaughs performance and called on the Senate to move swiftly to a vote. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting, Trump said. Democrats search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!
At a GOP fundraiser at his Washington hotel later Thursday, Trump described the hearing as brutal and hard to watch but praised Kavanaughs performance. He described Kavanaugh as a great guy and a great man, according to an attendee who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to describe Trumps speech publicly.
Fords tearful recounting of allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school, led Trump to express sympathy for Kavanaugh and his family for having to listen to the testimony, according to two Republicans close to the White House but not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. They added that Trump expressed some frustration at the process and the staff work that led Kavanaugh to this point.
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Oh I don't know asshole, you and him have a lot in common when it comes to woman, one is lying serial drunk, that thinks it is a left wing conspiracy, and its Clinton's fault and wants to sit on the bench and fuck seniors out of Medicare and Social Security for starters, and that doesn't think that a FBI investigation could possibly clear his fucking Federalist Society backed name............. nope, when directly asked 19 times, and there is you, another serial sexual predator......................23 times your track record is just like his, your one to talk.......two fucking peas in a pod...............FUCK YOU traitor and you are doing the same thing about Clinton, blaming her for being a traitor go fucking figure......................see a pattern asshole...............some of us do.................and this coming November we are going to take back our country from Federalist Society assholes, and enabling Russian backed traitors, and then there is your fucking son..................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough........................vote
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(182,788 posts)dchill
(38,474 posts)Defender in Chief of privileged assaulters.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Nitram
(22,794 posts)Trump can imagine exactly what was going through Kavanaugh's mind