New York Daily News

Don: 2nd Kav accuser drunk & ‘messed up’

- BY DENIS SLATTERY AND CHRIS SOMMERFELD­T

President Trump attacked the second woman to come forward with claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, dismissing her accusation­s because she was “totally inebriated and all messed up.”

Trump targeted Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University at the same time as Kavanaugh, days after she went public with claims that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her a dorm party there.

“The second accuser has nothing,” Trump told reporters while at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “She thinks maybe it could have been him, maybe not. She admits that she was drunk. She admits that there are time lapses.” He added that her account is not credible because she was “totally inebriated and all messed up.”

Trump previously assailed the veracity of Christine Blasey Ford, who says Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, covered her mouth as she tried to scream, and tried to remove her clothes during a high school party in 1982. Kavanaugh, who along with Ford is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, denies the allegation­s.

Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) scheduled a Judiciary Committee vote on Kavanaugh's nomination for Friday morning, even though it remains unclear what will come up during the potentiall­y explosive Thursday testimony.

After that, the source said, Republican­s are looking to schedule a so-called cloture vote as early as Sunday, which would stop any further debate over Kavanaugh's nomination and force it to a full Senate floor vote as early as the beginning of next week.

Spokesmen for Grassley did not respond to requests for comment.

Also Tuesday, the committee's all-male Republican majority announced they'd had hired a female “expert sexcrimes prosecutor” to carry out their questionin­g at Thursday's hearing.

“Chairman Grassley doesn't want another media/political circus,” the Republican­s said in a statement.

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