BRETT KAVANAUGH/GOP/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump praised Sen. Susan Collins for her support of now-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling the Maine Republican ‘incredible’ for her speech on the Senate floor just one day earlier…Collins, a key swing vote in the Senate, delivered a speech Friday [10-5-18] afternoon affirming that she would vote to confirm Kavanaugh, who faced allegations of sexual assault. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegations. Before departing, Trump said that he was ‘really looking forward to the vote,’ and lauded Kavanaugh as an ‘extraordinary person’ and ‘great talent’…Trump also said Saturday that he is ‘a hundred percent’ certain that Christine Blasey Ford named the wrong person when she accused Kavanaugh. Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to a rally in Kansas, Trump told reporters, ‘I’m a hundred percent … I have no doubt. And the FBI has done an excellent job. They went through it, and they went through it seven times. The FBI went through seven investigations and they did a very thorough job, excellent job.'”
–Liz Stark and Caroline Kelly, “Trump praises Collins, says he’s “100 percent sure” Ford was wrong on Kavanaugh,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 6, 2018 7:30 pm