Trump assails Boulder woman accusing Kavanaugh: ‘She admits that she was drunk’

Despite Mr McConnell’s forecast that Republicans will “win”, Mr Kavanaugh’s fate remains uncertain in a chamber where Republicans have a scant 51-49 majority.

Trump described Kavanaugh as a “gem” who had been unfairly maligned.

After discussing the problem of “unconscious bias” that leads to gender discrimination, she said she was “cheered on” by the #MeToo movement, a national reckoning with sexual assault and harassment that has brought down dozens of rich and powerful men.

The US Senate’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer demanded Wednesday that Republicans “immediately suspend” the confirmation process.

Kavanaugh will testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The allegations come from Julie Swetnick, who attended Gaithersburg High School in Maryland.

That followed allegations from a California college professor that Kavanaugh held her down, tried to remove her clothes and clamped his hand over her mouth when she screamed at a house party in the early 1980s. “These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh”, the affidavit reads. “Everyone deserves better than this, not just Judge Kavanaugh”.

“It’s happened to me many times“. He added, “Obviously with this one we have a contact and our lawyers are on it right now”.

Some Republicans, including Trump, have dismissed the allegations as part of a Democratic smear campaign created to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation. I never met these people. I am innocent of this charge.

In a phone call with Judiciary Committee staff of both parties, Mr Kavanaugh denied Ms Ramirez’s story, panel spokesman Mr Foy said. A Grassley spokesman later reiterated the hearing will go on as scheduled. But both Harth and Bloom have denied that the financial assistance had any affect on the veracity of her claim, which was first made in 1997.

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual misconduct by three women.

The White House had no immediate comment.

The committee vote is set to take place the day after Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are to testify about her allegation he sexually assaulted her when they were teens.

George Hartmann, a spokesman for Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, said the hearing is still going forward Thursday as scheduled.

Ramirez’s lawyer, John Clune, said in television interviews on NBC and CBS on Wednesday that she has not been invited to speak to senators.

Kavanaugh also stands accused of exposing himself to a classmate, Deborah Ramirez, causing her to touch him without consent, during an alcohol-fueled Yale University party a few years later.

“She then told me that when she was a young teen, she had been sexually assaulted by an older teen”, White continued.

President Donald Trump said he’s open to changing his mind on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – if the evidence at Thursday’s Senate committee hearing is compelling.

And, in a wide-ranging encounter, lasting well over an hour, he said he thought the Yemen conflict was “getting better”; announced: “I love the Kurds!”, and said he thought Iran’s leaders would soon be begging him to make a deal. “These are all false accusations”, Trump said.

“I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK”, he said.

Since Ford came forward publicly with her allegation in The Washington Post, another woman has accused Kavanaugh of past sexual misconduct.

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, left, stands with her lawyer Michael Avenatti as she speaks outside federal court, in NY.