TRUMP DENIES LIMITING FBI INQUIRY INTO JUDGE
He says FBI has free reign to investigate US Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh
UNITED States President Donald Trump hit back on Sunday at suggestions his administration is trying to “micromanage” the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe into controversial Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, accusing Democrats of being interested only in obstruction.
Trump had, on Friday, ordered the new FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, as the senate delayed a final vote on his confirmation to the Supreme Court.
The delay followed a dramatic televised Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which university professor Christine Blasey Ford accused the judge of pinning her down and assaulting her in the 1980s. Kavanaugh vigorously denied the allegations.
“Wow! Just starting to hear the Democrats, who are only thinking Obstruct and Delay, are starting to put out the word that the ‘time’ and ‘scope’ of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough,” Trump tweeted. “Hello! For them, it will never be enough.”
The New York Times and NBC News have cited multiple sources as saying the White House was limiting the witnesses the FBI could question during a one-week background check.
Trump insisted on Twitter that the FBI had “free rein” to pursue the matter as it saw fit.
“I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion,” he tweeted on Saturday.
But Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee appear unconvinced.
“The White House and the FBI