‘Flipping’ his wig
1st Don called Kav sex rap ‘credible,’ now it’s ‘hoax’
With Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court seat in the bag, President Trump on Monday accused the conservative jurist’s alleged victims of perpetuating a left-wing “hoax” and claimed Democrats will suffer in the upcoming congressional midterms as a consequence.
Trump made the comments on the South Lawn of the White House before departing for Florida, effectively walking back previous assertions that he considered at least one of Kavanaugh’s accusers “very credible.”
“The way they really tortured him and his family, I thought it was a disgrace,” Trump told reporters. “A brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats.”
Democratic candidates running in next month’s midterms will pay a price for their “dishonesty,” Trump said.
“I think you’re going to see a lot of things happen on Nov. 6 that would not have happened before,” the President said. “I think a lot of Democrats are going to vote Republican.”
Trump also claimed the Democrats have shifted so far to the left that, if they flip Congress, “we’ll end up being Venezuela.”
Surveys contradict Trump’s dramatic midterm predictions.
According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll published Monday, a slim majority of voters in 69 battleground House districts are expected to vote Democratic next month. Women are predominantly driving the blue boost, according to the poll, which comes as Trump’s approval rating remains below 50%.
If they don’t lose any seats, Democrats need to win at least 23 GOP-controlled districts to flip the House.
Trump’s denunciations of Kavanaugh’s accusers stand in sharp contrast to comments he made after Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.
Then, the President called the California professor “a very credible witness” after she testified in excruciating detail about how Kavanaugh drunkenly tried to rape her at a small social gathering they both attended while in high school in the early 1980s.
“I thought her testimony was very compelling,” Trump said.
Two other women have also publicly accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault. His controversial Supreme Court nomination was nearly derailed over the allegations, which were coupled with concerns about his drinking habits, blatant partisanship and judicial temperament.
“It was all made up, it was fabricated, and it was a disgrace,” Trump said Monday of Julie Swetnick, who alleges Kavanaugh was present when she was drugged and gang-raped at a high school party.
Kavanaugh, 53, who has consistently denied the accusations, was confirmed by the Senate on a historically thin 50-to-48 margin last week, cementing a conservative majority on the high court that will likely last decades.