Posted on 09/28/2018 2:59:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Speaking from the Oval Office Thursday afternoon, President Trump responded to new calls by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) to delay a full confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh until the FBI investigates sexual assault claims from nearly 40 years ago.
Im going to let the Senate handle that. Theyll make their decisions. Theyve been doing a good job and very professional. Im just hearing a little bit about it because Ive been with the president of Chile and were talking about some very important subjects. Im sure it will all be very good. I guess the vote was a positive vote but there seems to be a delay. Ill learn more about it as the day goes on. I just heard about it because we were together, Trump said. "Im going to rely on all the people, including Sen. Grassley who is doing a very good job. That is going to be a decision they are going to make and I suspect theyll be making some decision soon whether to take a vote or do whatever else they want to do. I will be totally reliant on what Sen. Grassley and the group decides to do."
When asked if he was considering a replacement for Kavanaugh, President Trump said "not even a little bit."
No word yet from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about how the vote will proceed.
Not that I know of .. someone here on FR had posted it and encouraged folks to copy/save/spread far/wide.
I don’t believe Flake, Collins, and Murkowski will vote for him as things stand now. If the FBI reports anything back that already hasn’t been discussed they will use that as the reason to announce they are a “no” vote. They’ve been hanging on to find any reason that they can take cover with.
Trump should declassify it or someone should should give it to wikileaks
Maybe some congress critters from the swamp are being blackmailed to block Kavanaugh “or you will get the same treatment!”
Or they are playing politics, and trying to leverage thevote for something else they want....
The longer it drags, the more leverage they have.
Trump is coolas a cucumber here for 1 reason: This FBI investigation is a rope-a-dope.
Remember what Kav said about the whirlwind? Sure there will be an FBI investigation of Kav that will plow the same things that have already been heard/said.
What's been missing has been the unwitting cover Dems provided to Trump to do an FBI proctological investigation of each of these accusers, the origins of the stories, the promoters of the smears, the financial sources of the rabble.
And it will all be because the Dems begged Trump to do an FBI investigation. The Kav investigation lasts til next Friday max.
Like Mueller's investigation that is going anywhere he wants it to, the machinery is now in place at the pleading of the Dems to keep the investigation going in these other areas long after the time Kav is already sitting on the court.
Br'er Rabbit and the briar patch redux.
FReegards!
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