Trump: Another Republican President ‘Would Have Abandoned’ Kavanaugh
“But I felt it would be so horrible and so unfair to him, I thought it would have been destructive, it would have been terrible.”
President Donald Trump told Salena Zito at The Washington Examiner on Wednesday night that if any other Republican president nominated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, he would have abandoned the judge when the sexual allegations came out. From Zito’s article:
“I felt that it would be a horrible thing not to go through with this,” he said. “The easier path would have been — you know we have some good people [on his Supreme Court shortlist], they’re all amazing people. But I felt it would be so horrible and so unfair to him, I thought it would have been destructive, it would have been terrible.”
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“I thought he was treated very unfairly,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “This is a person that actually when I chose him, I said this would be very easy, he’s led an exemplary life. I mean, he’s never had a problem in his life, from being number one at Yale and number one at Yale Law School, number one in high school and everywhere, and all of a sudden this stuff came up at the end and totally, you know, uncorroborated.
“You could see he was just — he couldn’t believe that this could be happening. Remember there was one time when they put something in front of him and he was reading and … he’s reading it and he’s just shaking his head because by this time it had started, this whole deal had started. And he’s just thinking … and I knew what he was thinking, ‘I can’t believe this is happening to me.'”
When told that supporters had suggested that while other Republican presidents might have nominated Kavanaugh, none would have stuck by him despite everything, Trump agreed. “They would have abandoned,” he responded. “That’s what people do. I think that’s what people do, I think that people do that — not only Republicans but I think that’s what people do.”
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The fact that Trump kept on course is going to be a big reason to vote for Trump in 2020.
T-rump never allows history and reality to impede his narcissism. And, of course, his is the biggest and best…!!!
Rags – never allowing reality to impede his ignorance.
Well, I DO have both reality and history on my side.
Or do you want to make the case that Duh Donald is not a pathological narcissist…???
AND the case that no POTUS in history has stood by an embattled nominee for the Supremes.
If so, go right ahead…
This one fights. This one wins.
In a town that has turned other lions into wet spaghetti, the art of the deal has been the art of winning.
He frequently fights when others wouldn’t.
However, we still have no wall and we still have millions of anchor babies, and more being born at taxpayer expense EVERY minute.
I am certain Trump is correct. I saw crumbling “conservatives” suggesting Trump should just withdraw K and nominate someone else. Too much negativity – just move along.
And that is why Trump won.
Of course it was far more than just Kavanaugh. Fold on this one, and the same imaginary attacks would be deployed against the next one . . . and the one after that . . . etc.
Naturally, such attacks will be used again. But they won’t have a recent history of 100% success behind them.