Posted on 09/21/2018 8:33:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his previous restraint, President Donald Trump challenged the credibility of 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 negotiated 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 that at a party when they were teenagers 30 years ago a drunken Kavanaugh held her down on a bed, tried to remove her clothing and clapped his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream before she managed to escape. Kavanaugh has denied all parts of the allegation.
The accusation has jarred the 53-year-old conservative jurist’s prospects for winning confirmation, which until Ford’s emergence last week had seemed all but certain. It has also bloomed into a broader clash over whether women alleging abuse are taken seriously and how both political parties address such claims with the advent of the #MeToo movement — a theme that could echo in this November’s elections for control of Congress.
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That’s why she says she ‘can’t remember’ the day or month even the year...........
Come on, Christine! Show us your blue dress!
Absent verifiable physical evidence, this whole sh*tstorm has all the credibility of a bunch of teenage girls passing around a note in the back of the classroom. "OMG! Did you hear what Diane said that Kamala said that Christine said that Brett did to her at some party like ages ago? O. M. G.!!!!
Grow the f*** up, kids. You're not in high school anymore.
Round up; 40 sounds even better.
. . . and Hillary Clinton set the standard of defense in such a case - see My #34
“Slam” - > Asking the obvious question.
F the MSM
I don’t call it stupid. I call it brilliant.
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President Trump has the goods on her. He’s aimed an arrow right at her and daring her and the Dem lawyer/strategists/pr people to come at him.
This is a man who knows and understands how to win. Perhaps the rumored letter making similar allegations at Gorsuch is true.
Or the other rumor that she wrote on Facebook someone needs to make a sexual allegation at Gorsuch has been recovered from her Facebook account.
If either is true, she’s toast.
The NSA has EVERYTHING....................They told me so.................
President Trump echoes our thoughts every time!
Because it is - more civil than her conduct merits.
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