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Forget for a moment about the Brett Kavanaugh documents Republicans are trying to bury and take a moment to pay attention to the overt disdain Kavanaugh showed Tuesday to the grieving father of a girl who died in the Parkland shooting massacre earlier this year. Not only did Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, literally turn his back on Fred Guttenberg as Guttenberg tried to introduce himself at the nomination hearing, Kavanaugh went a step further and tried to have Guttenberg removed from the Senate hearing room, according to his account on CNN.
Guttenberg, who wears two wristbands to commemorate his daughter, Jaime, said security approached him following the lunch break and "pulled me out of the room." Judge Kavanaugh, Guttenberg explained, "thought that I may have crossed a boundary. ... and I'm certain he was the one who told them to take me out because he described these bracelets that I wear on my wrists which commemorate my daughter.”
Wow. This is a colossal mistake on Kavanaugh’s part. Snubbing Guttenberg was bad enough for a nominee whose approval ratings are already sucking wind. But asking security to remove Guttenberg, especially when he likely had a grasp of who Guttenberg was, is truly a moment of someone showing you who they are.
Guttenberg had been invited to the hearings by ranking Senate Judiciary Committee member Dianne Feinstein.
Watch the CNN interview below.
Guttenberg’s account of security removing him from the hearing starts at about 1.12 here:
Guttenberg says: “I went up to him as a dad.”