I don’t doubt it but I don’t doubt that the confirmation would have gone through anyway.
Trump still doesn’t get credit for being a VERY astute man.
What were there, 358 FBI investigations into this guy?
enough was enough.
Trump was astute.
He *KNEW* that they’d find nothing on Kavanaugh. The guy is beyond a boy scout. He’s squeaky clean.
By agreeing to it, they could not accuse him of partisan politics or hiding something, or protecting Kavanaugh, or a whole list of other things they’d try to slam him with..
It was his way of appearing gracious and accommodating at no cost to himself, Kavanaugh, or the Republicans. No mud they slung at him would stick to him.
I think it backfired on them big time.
And judging by the look on Feinstein’s face after the report was read, it did more than clear Kavanaugh.
I suspect that it may have revealed way more than intended, stuff that would hurt the dems based on how quick she was to then want the FBI investigation held and then the results not released.
Trump knew what he was doing all along.