to be pretty easily to demonstrate as lies. and he didn t have to go there, you know. and why he chose to do that will always be a mystery. he also i think might have committed the unpardonable sin in donald trump s eyes as appearing bad on television. it was reported one of the reasons he liked justice gorsuch so much when he was nominated is because he came across really well on television. whatever you think of judge kavanaugh s kavanaugh s answers dure that interview, it didn t come across well and that s something that matters to donald trump a lot. the question today was donald trump a strategist at work? let s have an accused and admitted sexual assaulter get up there and defend brett kavanaugh against sexual assault charges but at the same time say, well, you know, maybe he did it and maybe i ll change my mind.
today that he hasn t just been accused of sexual assault, he has admitted to it, and he has bragged about his favorite methods of sexual assault upon meeting women. the whole country has heard donald trump describe exactly where he likes to grab women when he meet them. so with defenders like sexual assaulter donald trump the kavanaugh nomination is now on life support. someone told donald trump that he should not call all of the women making accusations against brett kavanaugh liar as he always does with any woman who makes accusations against him. and so the president tried to shift focus. he tried to do that. he tried to avoid attacking the women, and he tried instead to shift the focus to attacking democrats. donald trump s job today was to try to hold onto the vote of senator susan collins, lisa murkowski and possibly jeff flake, the three republican senators who might, just might
women know the reasons. you know who else knows the reasons? sexual assaulters. they re counting on women not reporting. and the president of the united states is both an accused sexual assaulter and a confessed sexual assaulter. we all heard him describe the sexual assaultive way in which he likes to grab women when he was recorded on that access hollywood bus surrounded by strangers, a camera crew, a bus driver, all sorts of people he didn t know. and that s what he was willing to confess to them, to strangers. so imagine what his real personal truth and his real personal history is on sexual assault. his first wife accused him of rape under oath. and so an accused sexual assaulter has now given his opinion in a sexual assault
every woman s story is different and experience is different. dr. ford has asked for an fbi investigation. we are on this artificial time line because the republicans don t care. they want to jam their nominee in and we don t need to have this resolved by monday or by thursday. we can allow for an fbi investigation which is what people are calling for which is what dr. ford is calling for. instead, we are putting this woman and her character and whether she is lying or not or she is telling the truth on trial. and this is exactly what rape culture is and i find it very interesting that the president doesn t believe her and is putting out these doubts on whether she is telling the truth or not because he is a self-admitted sexual assaulter and it s really interesting which path the gop is going down. they are clearly following the head of their party. tracy, to her point, i would like you to answer the same question how do we balance accusations against due process? because it seem
before the break, late night laughs on the battle over brett kavanaugh. chuck grassley, who says there s no need for the fbi to investigate the kavanaugh allegation. oh, so the hearing comes before the investigation just like on the classic tv show, order & law. following an accusation of sexual assault, supreme court justice nominee brett kavanaugh visited the white house today for the second day in a row. it s the first time an accused sexual assaulter had gotten into the white house without the electoral college.