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And according to all four, she either named Kavanaugh as the assailant or described the attacker as a “federal judge”.
‘I look at the second accuser, the second accuser has nothing, ‘ Trump said. Delaying Kavanaugh’s confirmation could allow time for doubts about him to take root or any fresh accusations to emerge.
Trump attacked Ramirez on Tuesday, saying she admitted to being drunk and he raged against a “con game” Democrats are playing with the confirmation process for his Supreme Court nominee.
Both Kavanaugh and Ford are expected to testify at a Committee hearing Thursday.
Republicans can confirm Kavanaugh without any Democratic votes but with the GOP controlling the chamber 51 seats to 49, Republicans can only afford to lose one GOP vote and still advance his nomination.
If the Republican-led committee approves Kavanaugh, his nomination then faces a confirmation vote in the full Senate. She claims Kavanaugh pinned her down, covered her mouth with his hand, and attempted to remove her clothes.
None of the people Ramirez said were at the party have backed up her story.
“Sexual assault is horrific”, Kavanaugh says in the remarks.
CBN News Chief Political Analyst David Brody says, “It’s striking to see a Supreme Court nominee actually use that word “coordinated” because he’s now invoking politics into the equation and we really haven’t seen something like this in a very long time“.
Roche, who declined media interviews, said he he did not witness the 1983 act in question: When Debbie Ramiez said Kavanaugh was standing next to her, laughing, pulling up his trousers, after putting his penis in her face, the New Yorker reported on Sunday. The matter came up again when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement and Trump had a second seat to fill. He had exams during the first week in June, followed by a weeklong trip to the beach. The two met at a Mountain View, California, restaurant, where Ford arrived “visibly upset”.
“What I know is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone”, Kavanaugh said in the interview, which was conducted alongside his wife, Ashley. “She said that she had been nearly raped by someone who was now a federal judge”.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told ABC on Tuesday that the White House would be open to Ramirez testifying at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing alongside Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took to Fox News on Monday night to defend himself from allegations of sexual assault when he was in high school, claiming that he was a virgin “for many years” after leaving Yale University. They note that neither the accusers nor news organizations have found people willing to provide corroboration, even though both women have named people who they said were present at the alleged incidents. He told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the “only way to get at the truth of what happened” is to interview his client. Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, says Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a college party.
In a break from convention, Mitchell will question Ford and Kavanaugh on behalf of the committee’s Republican senators, 11 men.
The affidavits are not the first challenges to Kavanaugh’s denials.
“The second accuser has nothing”, Trump told reporters at the United Nations. I’ve known him for 17 years”, she said, adding: “I know his heart. Dulcé Sloan shared her thoughts on Kavanaugh’s assertion he was a virgin well into college, and she went heavy on the virgin-shaming. She alleges that the pair spiked party punch with drugs or grain alcohol to lower girls’ inhibitions and says she witnessed boys including Kavanaugh and Judge lining up to gang-rape an inebriated girl.
Kavanaugh and his Republican allies portrayed the allegations as part of a “smear campaign” by Democrats who have fought his nomination from the outset.
With the midterm Congressional election looming in November, the party’s all-male representation on the panel risks appearing disrespectful of Blasey Ford in a way that could turn away women voters.