Donald Trump has completed his journey from pretending he was open to believing sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh all the way to full-on conspiracy theory in defense of Kavanaugh.
“Now they’re thinking about impeaching a brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats,” Trump told reporters. [...] “It was all made up, it was fabricated, and it’s a disgrace,” Trump concluded. “And I think it’s really gonna show you something come November 6th.”
“A man that did nothing wrong” … who lied under oath not just about his own past drinking habits but about hist past work in the George W. Bush White House and areas of policy he would handle as an appeals court judge or Supreme Court justice.
“Caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats” … who apparently had somehow foreseen the need to have Ford tell her therapists, husband, and several friends about having been assaulted by Kavanaugh dating back before Donald Trump began running for president, let alone nominated Kavanaugh.
“It was all made up, it was fabricated, and it’s a disgrace” … said about the person who showed up and made a good-faith effort to answer all of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s questions, was apologetic about gaps in her memory, had a significant number of details to offer despite those gaps, and embraced the idea of a full investigation—and said in defense of the person who we know lied and who did not want an investigation.
There’s a reason Donald Trump, with more than a dozen women saying he sexually assaulted or harassed them, identifies so fully with Brett Kavanaugh. Something here is fabricated and a disgrace, but it’s not Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.
Make Republican senators pay for confirming Brett Kavanaugh. Can you give $1 to Democratic candidates in 2018 and nominee funds for 2020?