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his latest defense of Judge Brett Kavanaugh amid the sexual assault allegations against
the Supreme Court nominee. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Sept. 24, 2018.
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body", "role":"body","text":"WASHINGTON â€" President Trump on Monday said the sexual
misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, which are slowing proceedings
on his nomination to be the newest Supreme Court justice, could be one of the “single
most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate for
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body", "role":"body","text":"The president said he continues to support Judge Kavanaugh,
and dismissed the allegations about the judge’s conduct decades ago as “totally
political.†Mr. Trump characterized the women making them as people coming “out of
the woodwork.†His comments came during brief remarks in New York on Monday morning
ahead of his appearance at the United Nations.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-
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body", "role":"body","text":"Mr. Trump’s statements on Monday echoed his remarks in a
radio interview to be broadcast on Monday morning, in which Mr. Trump acknowledged that
he would most likely not be able to persuade any Democrats to vote for Judge Kavanaugh,
meaning that he would have to hold nearly every Republican to win confirmation in the
narrowly divided Senate.", "type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body-
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body", "role":"body","text":"“We’ll get almost no Democrat, †he told Geraldo Rivera
for the debut show of “Geraldo in Clevelandâť on WTAM radio. “We may get a couple
in states where I won by many, many points â€" you understand that â€" but we’11
essentially get no Democrat.â€","type":"text"}, {"bannerType":"any", "identifier":" an
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body", "role": "body", "text": "Yet Mr. Trump suggested Christine Blasey Ford’™™s
allegations against Judge Kavanaugh were suspect because she never reported them to the
authorities. “This went 36 years without a
complaint.â€","type":"text"}, {"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/ASDpb1vcRQemX7gbp
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body", "role": "body", "text":"Dr. Blasey, 51, who also goes by her married name, Ford,
has accused Judge Kavanaugh, 53, of sexually assaulting her while he was drunk during a
high school party when they were both teenagers. He has categorically denied the
allegation, and the two are scheduled to testify separately before the Senate Judiciary
Committee on Thursday. Mr. Trump has stuck by Judge Kavanaugh, who would join Justice
Neil M. Gorsuch, his first appointee, on the high
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body", "role":"body","text":"“Hopefully, we’ll have a second judge very shortly who
is a fantastic, fantastic man, a fantastic talent and intellect,†Mr. Trump
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