Posted on 09/21/2018 7:37:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenged by name the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement.
Trump’s change in tone — and apparent shift in tactics — came as Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers negotiate with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terms for her possible testimony next week in a dramatic showdown over her accusation that threatens Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Trump tweeted: “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”
The president previously had avoided naming Ford or plainly casting doubt on her account. Ford alleges Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than 30 years ago when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.
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Everybody with half a brain knows this is a CommieCrat stunt.
Trump fed up like the rest of real Americans. Get on with the vote.
Upping the ante. Maybe to shore up Grassley?
This will backfire. Not because she is not lying but because many victims of sexual assault do not file charges. By tweeting this he unwittingly gives credence to her claims and makes her a victim. I support Trump but sometimes I think he needs better people around him to help prevent gaffes. He may have just torpedoed Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Interesting source name of article.
Obviously the President knows something we are not privy to.
He needs to stay out of it
Horsecrap. Pure Horsecrap.
Women support Kavvanaugh and know this is a RAT stunt.
This entire AP piece is full of lies.
Action now. Vote now. Words are worthless.
Nope. POTUS needs to support his candidate and that is what he is doing.
Really, what are some of you so worried about? Has weenyism struck conservatives now?
Please stop your pearl-clutching ... or turn off the TV and the computer.
The Democrats' pathetic "Fail Mary" was self-destructing on its own just fine. Now he’s drawn fire away from Blasey-Ford and focused it in himself.
Not one of your finer Tweets, Mr. President.
Don’t worry. It’ll pass.
this
You’re wrong, Trump is speaking common sense.
The p*ssy hat hags will go nuts, but they go nuts all the time anyway.
I’m glad he said what he said, he’s speaking for millions and millions of voters.
BS....President Trump is showing America that he is just like the rest of us...Fed up with all democrap BS...
He is NOT a “professional politician” who checks the wind direction before he speaks...He just speaks from the heart and mind....
Trump needed to stiffen some wobbly RINO spines.
He and Nunes are the only guys in that party who have them so far as I can see.
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