Dems guilty of ‘con job’: Don
He’s with them.
In a rambling press conference at United Nations headquarters Wednesday, President Trump acknowledged he tends to side with men accused of sexual assault because he is one of them, blaming “con job” Democrats for supposedly making things up and claiming they would even vote against George Washington if the Founding Father rose from his grave and was nominated to the Supreme Court.
In the unhinged back-andforth with reporters — his first in over 19 months — Trump kept returning to his own checkered past while issuing blanket defenses for Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, who is accused of sexual misconduct by at least five women.
Trump (above), who’s accused of misconduct by at least 19 women, said he defends accused predators such as Roy Moore, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes and Kavanaugh because “I’ve had a lot of false charges made against me.”
When pressed on whether he considers Kavanaugh’s accusers liars, Trump backpedaled a bit and said he would keep an open mind when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testifies about her allegations before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
“I can’t tell you whether or not they’re liars until I hear them,” Trump said.
But at breakneck speed Trump regressed to saying the allegations were a“big fat con job” by Democrats and “evil people” before making a bizarre analogy about the slave-owning Washington.
“Look, if we brought George Washington here and we said, ‘We have George Washington,’ the Democrats would vote against him,” Trump said. “And he may have had a bad past, who knows, you know? He may have had some I think accusations made. Didn’t he have a couple of things in his past? George Washington would be voted against 100% by (Chuck) Schumer and the con artists.”
It’s not clear what accusations against Washington Trump was talking about.
Trump also dived headfirst into the fate of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s job in light of reports he proposed secretly recording and removing the President from office on grounds that he’s mentally unfit.
“I’m talking to him. We’ve had a good talk. He said he never said it. He said he doesn’t believe it,” Trump said. “I would much prefer keeping Rod Rosenstein. Much prefer. Many people say I have the right to absolutely fire him.”
As he frequently does, Trump also spent a fair share of the wild press appearance spewing factually dubious statements, including about voter turnout in 2016 — he falsely said 52% of women voted for him — and about President Barack Obama — he inaccurately asserted the ex-commander-in-chief was “ready to go to war” with North Korea.