After delivering a flailing, furious, and blatantly partisan opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Trump Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly and angrily refused to express support for an FBI investigation into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations or to encourage his friend Mark Judge to testify when given multiple opportunities to do so by three consecutive Democratic senators.
Asked by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to turn to White House counsel Don McGahn—who was seated in the front row—to demand that the confirmation hearings be suspended for the sake of a full FBI probe, Kavanaugh ducked, dodged, and insisted that he is completely innocent of the multiple sexual assault charges against him despite the lack of a federal investigation.
“If there is no truth to [Ford’s] charges, the FBI investigation will show that. Are you afraid that they might not?” Durbin asked.
Unlike Ford, who said she supports an FBI probe, Kavanaugh refused to answer and accused Durbin of asking a “phony question.”
Asked again why he would resist a federal investigation, Kavanaugh dodged once more and claimed he would “welcome” whatever the Senate Judiciary Committee recommends. After Durbin asked Kavanaugh what he personally wants, the judge stayed totally silent:
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Kavanaugh’s indignant assertion of innocence combined with a furious refusal to back a full investigation was repeated in three separate exchanges with Democratic senators.
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