U.S. President Donald Trump challenged the accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for the first time on Friday, questioning her credibility and demanding she provide evidence that he sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers.
In a series of tweets, Mr. Trump defended the conservative Mr. Kavanaugh as under assault by “radical left wing politicians” seeking to “destroy and delay” his confirmation as a Supreme Court justice.
Christine Blasey Ford, a college Professor, alleges that Mr. Kavanaugh drunkenly assaulted her at a party when he was 17, she was 15, and they were attending private schools outside Washington in the 1980s.
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“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,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”