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body", "role":"body","text":"BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. â€" As the fate of Judge Brett M.
Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, teetered over a sexual assault allegation from
decades ago, President Trump vented his frustration about his own party’s
unwillingness to aggressively hit back.", "type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-
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body", "role":"body","text":"Speaking to thousands of supporters at a rally in Missouri
on Friday, Mr. Trump recounted how he had implored an unnamed senator to “fight forâ€
Judge Kavanaugh, and “not worry about the other side.†The lawmaker pushed back, the
president said, citing his experience from 25 years in politics. But Mr. Trump said he
had told the man that he knew better: “I’™™ve been in politics for two and a half
years, and I’™™m the president of the United
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body", "role":"body","text": "The exchange highlighted the clash between Mr. Trump’s
pugnacious instincts and the political realities surrounding Judge Kavanaugh’s
imperiled nomination. Mr. Trump is confronting a situation that is beyond his control,
with the Senate Judiciary Committee making the decisions, including a momentous one on
Sunday in which it reached an agreement to hear public testimony from the judge’S
accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"anf-body-
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body", "role":"body","text":"With one notable exception late last week, Mr. Trump has
heeded instructions from his advisers and Republican senators to hold his fire, lest he
provoke a calamitous backlash. Constrained by his party’s perilous electoral
prospects and the accusations of sexual misconduct he himself has faced in the past,
the president is virtually powerless to influence the outcome of perhaps his
administration’s top
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body", "role":"body","text": "The public spectacle that will surround Dr. Blasey’s
testimony on Thursday illustrates the degree to which a confirmation effort that was
once seen as an island of functionality in a tumultuous White House has become the
latest messy episode in a presidency full of them. The development could carry profound
consequences not only for the future of the Supreme Court but also for Republicans
facing the growing possibility of losing control of Congress in November, partly at the
hands of female
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body", "role":"body", "text": "As the risk that Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination could
collapse has mounted â€" a new allegation of sexual misconduct published by The New
Yorker on Sunday night raised fresh questions about whether he could survive â€" Mr.
Trump has been forced into the role of spectator.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-
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body", "role":"body","text":"The president was briefed on the allegation on Sunday,
according to people in contact with him, and was remaining firmly behind Judge
Kavanaugh, who is also scheduled to testify before the committee and who has vehemently
denied the allegations. But one of the people said the president argued that the new
charge showed why the White House should have fought back against Dr. Blasey from the
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