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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is defending President Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court as Judge Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations of sexual misconduct from over 30 years ago. Conway, speaking on "CBS This Morning" Monday, said the allegations against Kavanaugh are "starting to feel like a vast left-wing conspiracy."
"I know there's pent-up demand for women to get their day, women who have been sexually harassed and sexually assaulted, and I personally am very aggrieved for all of them, but we cannot put decades of pent-up demand for women to feel whole on one man's shoulders. What exactly is the standard for ruining one man's life based on decades of allegations that have nothing to do with him?" said Conway.
She added, "I just don't think one man's shoulders should bear decades of the MeToo movement."
Conway's comments come after another woman has come forward with accusations against the president's pick to fill the vacancy on the high court. According to The New Yorker, 53-year-old Deborah Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when they were both students at Yale University in the 1980s.
It's the latest allegation against Kavanaugh as another accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Kavanaugh has vehemently denied both women's allegations. On Sunday, through an official White House statement, Kavanaugh categorically denied the latest alleged incident ever took place, calling it a "smear."
"I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my good name — and the reputation for character and integrity I have spent a lifetime building — against these last-minute allegations," Kavanaugh said Sunday. Conway said the allegations against Kavanaugh, many of which stem from his years as a high school and college student, "does not comport with" the man many of his former female colleagues have known him to be.
"This may be the first time we've heard allegations against someone as a teenager who did not prey upon women thusly as he became powerful," she said.
Conway said that Ramirez can also testify before the committee if she so chooses, suggesting she contact Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who Conway said has made "unprecedented accommodations" for Ford. But the president's adviser would not say if follow-up investigations should take place, saying the entire confirmation process has already been put on hold "for weeks."
Conway also said that Mr. Trump has "said from the beginning that Dr. Ford should be heard," calling him "very respectful" throughout the entire confirmation process.
"I take these allegations very seriously, as does the president," said Conway. "This president is defending his nominee to the United States Supreme Court. That nominee needs to defend himself against these allegations."
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President Trump praised Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s character and intellect in a radio interview scheduled to air Monday morning, calling him “a fantastic, fantastic man” and again casting doubt on the credibility of a woman who has accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault.
“I think he’s got an outstanding record, very smart, top of the line education, the best student no matter where he went and honestly the best character, unless she can prove otherwise, and we’re going to give her chance to do that,” Trump told host Geraldo Rivera in an interview conducted Sunday.
The interview, which will be broadcast in full on the debut of Rivera’s new show on WTAM radio in Cleveland, took place before the New Yorker magazine reported on a second allegation of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh.
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In the interview, Rivera asked Trump whether Kavanaugh should still be confirmed if people come to believe the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford about an assault while they were both teenagers in Maryland.
“Number one, I don’t think that will happen, and number two, I want her to have her voice,” Trump said. “Let her have her voice. Let her say whatever she has to say. Let him say what he has to say. And at the end, the senators will make a choice.”
Ford and Kavanaugh are scheduled to testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ford has alleged that Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her to a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams as he tried to take off her clothes at a house party in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh has firmly denied the accusation.
In a tweet on Friday, Trump directly attacked Ford’s credibility, writing: “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents.”
In the radio interview, Trump repeated that point, saying that “this went 36 years without a complaint.”
Trump also suggested that he will have to rely almost entirely on Republican votes to win Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“We’ll get almost no Democrat,” he told Rivera. “We may get a couple in states where I won by many, many points — you understand that — but we’ll essentially get no Democrat.”
On Sunday, the New Yorker reported that Deborah Ramirez, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale University, said he exposed himself at a party when they were both first-year students.
In a statement issued by the White House, Kavanaugh denied the accusation and called it “a smear, plain and simple.”