DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump continued to stand behind his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday [9-18-18], even as senators grapple with how to move forward after a woman has accused the judge of a decades-old sexual assault…Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Trump also criticized Democrats and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, for not bringing up the letter during what he described as a ‘long, long meeting’…Trump said earlier in the day that he does not believe the FBI should delve any further into the decades-old sexual assault allegation leveled against Kavanaugh, claiming the FBI does not want to be involved….Trump’s comments came as Senate Democrats ramped up calls for the White House to direct the FBI to reopen Kavanaugh’s background investigation before any hearings on the allegation of sexual assault leveled over the weekend against the Supreme Court nominated judge can proceed. The Senate Judiciary Committee has invited both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, his accuser, to testify before the committee on Monday [9-17-18].”
–Jeremy Diamond and Betsy Klein, “Trump on Kavanaugh: ‘This is not a man who deserves this’,”CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 18, 2018 12:05 am