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babylonsister

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Thu Sep 27, 2018, 07:16 AM Sep 2018

'Disaster': Trumpworld Starting to Sweat Over Brett Kavanaugh's Mounting Sexual Assault Allegations

https://www.thedailybeast.com/disaster-trumpworld-starting-to-sweat-over-brett-kavanaughs-mounting-sexual-assault-allegations?ref=home

‘Disaster’: Trumpworld Starting to Sweat Over Brett Kavanaugh’s Mounting Sexual Assault Allegations
The president is publicly running to his embattled nominee’s defense. But his team is sending out signals that all may not be well.
Asawin Suebsaeng,
Sam Stein
09.26.18 6:52 PM ET

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At this point, Trump’s team and Kavanaugh’s camp are publicly maintaining calm and privately encouraging allies to do the same. On a Monday conference call with White House surrogates, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, had insisted that the “president and this White House continue to stand strongly behind Judge Kavanaugh,” according to a person on the line. By Wednesday, a senior West Wing official said that the president’s posture remained unchanged.

But aides also acknowledge that Kavanaugh’s prospects were growing more endangered. “Thursday could be a disaster or it could be…a victory, we don’t know,” one aide said, referencing the planned testimony Kavanaugh and his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford plan to give to the Senate Judiciary Committee. And even conservative activists and operatives squarely in Kavanaugh’s camp now say the odds of his confirmation have fallen significantly.

Ed Rollins, who leads the pro-Trump Great America PAC, put the chances of Kavanaugh making it at a mere “fifty-fifty” in an interview with The Daily Beast earlier this week. “My sense is you reach a point where, how do you prove your innocence?” Rollins said. “Democrats now smell blood, they’re going to go full bore [but] as long as he fights on I’ll support him, and the president will support him.”

Perhaps the greatest indication of how imperiled Kavanaugh may actually be came from Trump himself. Talking to reporters at the United Nations on Wednesday, Trump seemed to begin publicly spinning the fraught situation as a possible miscalculation on Republicans’ part.

“They could have pushed it through two and a half weeks ago and you wouldn’t be talking about it right now, which is frankly what I would have preferred,” he proclaimed.
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'Disaster': Trumpworld Starting to Sweat Over Brett Kavanaugh's Mounting Sexual Assault Allegations (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2018 OP
Kravenaugh the leader of the chain-rape gang has greater than 50-50 Fullduplexxx Sep 2018 #1
Yah, I'm afraid he'll Freestate_MD Sep 2018 #2
There is nothing stopping his seating . I wish not but they see Fullduplexxx Sep 2018 #3

Fullduplexxx

(7,863 posts)
1. Kravenaugh the leader of the chain-rape gang has greater than 50-50
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 07:22 AM
Sep 2018

This class of clowns really have nothing to lose in seating him.

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