Senate aide out over ‘sex harass’

An aide for the Senate committee overseeing hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has resigned after a past sexual-harassment allegation against the staffer surfaced.

The aide, Garrett Ventry — who had been working on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s media response to the sexual-assault allegation against Kavanaugh — left the job Friday, though he denied the accusation against him.

Ventry (above) had been fired as a social-media adviser to a North Carolina legislator in 2017 for lying on his résumé, NBC News reported Saturday.

But fueling his departure was an accusation of sexual harassment lodged against him by a female staffer of the North Carolina General Assembly.

“It was the chatter of the staff,” a source told NBC News. “The whole thing got turned into a he said, she said, and then Garrett was fired.”

Ventry, 29, rejected the accusation.

“While [Ventry] strongly denies allegations of wrongdoing, he decided to resign to avoid causing any distraction from the work of the committee,” said a Judiciary Committee spokesman.

The committee, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is mired in controversy stirred by a last-minute allegation from Christine Blasey Ford. The California college professor claims that Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee, attempted to rape her when they were teenagers.

Kavanaugh denies the allegation.