Posted on 09/28/2018 2:34:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Friday asked the FBI to investigate sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh after Senate Republicans agreed to a one-week investigation, temporarily delaying his nomination to the Supreme Court.
“I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week,” Trump said in the statement released by the White House.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday afternoon requested that Trump instruct the FBI to conduct the supplemental investigation after Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and others called for the move.
Flake said the FBI should conduct an investigation that is “limited in scope and time,” and said it should focus solely on credible accusations against Kavanaugh and last no longer than a week.
Multiple senators, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkwski (R-Alaska), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) soon followed.
Flake, after outlining his call for the supplemental FBI investigation, joined other Republicans on the Judiciary Committee on Friday in voting to send Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate.
Republicans are set to hold a procedural vote on Kavanaugh's nomination on Saturday, though a final vote set for early next week is likely to be delayed to allow the FBI investigation to wrap up.
Democrats had been calling for such an investigation for days and received GOP support following a rollercoaster day on Capitol Hill on Thursday, when Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Judiciary panel.
Ford delivered gripping testimony outlining her allegation that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothes during a house gathering in 1982 when she and Kavanaugh were high schoolers.
Kavanaugh, who has flatly denied the allegations, offered a forceful defense of himself during the hearing. Speaking after Ford, the nominee called his confirmation process a "national disgrace" and insisted he had never sexually assaulted anyone.
Trump on Friday afternoon called Ford a "credible" witness and described her testimony as "compelling," but also praised Kavanaugh's performance and told reporters at the White House that he had given no thought to having another nominee.
I don’t believe that Ford can insist on her attorneys being present. She is a witness and not a defendant. She has no right to an attorney during questioning by the FBI.
I’m willing to bet she refuses to be interviewed.
Is Ford going to be investigated this round?
Is the leak, as you pointed out, going to be investigated?
There are TRUE questions and leads that could be followed that would get to the truth but I suspect they're not the questions and leads that will be followed.
And the witnesses who said they were not there & the girlfriend who said she never met Kavanaugh,, Comey they were liars also.
How can Ford deal with her social media and therapy notes? Refuse to cooperate with the FBI? Ok.
His heart is in the right place but he lacks the strength to Drain the swamp n- so don’t expect much more MAGA. It just got drowned by the swamp alligators
Is this true?.....or fake?
Why would President do this?
The FBI cannot find that which does not exist.
They found nothing in the previous six investigations.
Yes..Freakstein sat on the letter. Could have already had fbi investigation weeks ago. Next they should investigate Freakstein , eh.
Yep No Doubt.
My Dad called me to day fuming mad about this and he NEVER calls me just to talk politics. He said he found his voter registration card and is going to vote early, he is pissed.
Trump knows nothing will come up.
Yep No Doubt.
My Dad called me to day fuming mad about this and he NEVER calls me just to talk politics. He said he found his voter registration card and is going to vote early, he is pissed.
And I might add he is outraged at the way the Democrats are treating K !
Well, it appears to be Trump who turned Kavanaugh over to them. Any explanation for this one?
I sure don’t have one, and I’m extremely upset.
“I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week,”
Needs much tighter parameters than that.
LOL.
And they are bring back Page and McCabe too.
Phil Valentine, Nashville radio talk show host, asked a great question. If Feinstein had the letter since July, would have kept it confidential and only brought it to the committee after it was leaked to Washington Post.. WHAT was she planning on doing with it and when?
Was she going to keep it confidential, and bring it to the committee at the last minute?
She has no intention of doing this in confidence, otherwise she could have brought it to the committee in July
If the FBI does investigate, it will be the very first time they’ve ever obeyed an order of President Trump!
It wasn't the full investigation they asked for, it's only a 'supplemental investigation'.
Not defining the limited scope means the Russian witch Hunt has taught him nothing
5 will get you 10 that 1 or more additonal “victims” will be trotted out with new accusations during the upcoming week.
Yep, does the FBI need to investigate an alleged groping incident at a teenage party?
One subtext of all.of this I find disturbing, is that the Democrats have decided to go back to his high school years to investigate things.
Decades of exemplary behavior and government service, are to he cancelled out, by one allegation by one disturbed woman, an allegation which can never ever be proven in the first place.
We are in banana republic territory.
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