Kavanaugh pleads his innocence on TV

WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared in a televised interview that he never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any other time in his life.

Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley, sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel’s The Story With Martha MacCallum after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct.

A university professor has accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a party when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh denied he was “at any such party”.

He said he did not question that perhaps the professor at some point in her life was sexually assaulted, “but what I know is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone”.

Kavanaugh said it’s possible he may have met her at some time, but he said they were not friends and did not travel in the same social circles. He said he did not remember being at a party with her.

“I was not at the party described,” Kavanaugh said.

Kavanaugh was asked if there was any chance she misunderstood an exchange between them.

“I have never had any sexual or physical activity with (her),” Kavanaugh said. “I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise.”

The second woman has accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at a Yale dormitory party, putting his penis in her face and causing her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.

Kavanaugh said Monday, “I never did any such thing.”

“If such a thing had happened, it would have been the talk of campus,” Kavanaugh said. AP