Maximum Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, visibly angry, called his confirmation course of action a “national disgrace” on Thursday, in his opening remarks before the Senate Judiciary Body.
In a tearfully-delivered statement he said he had not shared with anyone except for one of his departed law clerks, Kavanaugh denied the allegations against him with more powerful terms than he has used since the accusations first surfaced this month.
“My species and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and imitation additional accusations,” Kavanaugh said. And the 53-year-old federal appeals court appreciate blasted the allegations against him as part of “a calculated and orchestrated political hit.”
He affirmed that opposition to his nomination was “fueled with apparent pent-up outrage about President Trump and the 2016 election” and “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.”
Mourning what he called the “frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything to lump my confirmation,” Kavanaugh said that as a result of the allegations against him, he may no longer be competent to return to the activities he most enjoys, including teaching law and coaching basketball.
Three sweethearts have come forward alleging that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them or other lasses decades ago. Earlier Thursday, one of those women, Christine Blasey Ford, avowed to the committee that Kavanaugh had drunkenly pinned her to a bed and groped her at a high boarding-school gathering in Maryland in 1982.
“I never attended a gathering like the one that Dr. Ford defines in her allegation. I’ve never sexually assaulted Dr. Ford or anyone,” Kavanaugh express.
He said that he did drink beer in high school, but that he not under any condition drank beer “to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone.”
“There is a magnificent line between drinking beer, which I gladly do, and which I fully hug, and sexually assaulting someone, which is a violent crime,” he said. “If every American who nips beer, or every American who drank beer in high school, is speedily presumed guilty of sexual assault, we’ll be in an ugly new place in this boonies.”
Kavanaugh said he bore no ill will to Ford, and said “those that receive allegations always deserve to be heard.” He said that in the 1990s, one of his closest bunk-mates confided to him about her own experience with sexual abuse. But he added that “due system means listening to both sides.”
Describing a conversation he had with his daughter Liza, in which she hint ated that the family pray for Ford, Kavanaugh choked up.
“A lot of wisdom from a 10-year-old,” he implied.
But he decried the confirmation process, telling senators that “you have supplanted advice and consent with search and destroy.”
“Throughout my 53 years and seven months on this Terra until last week, no one ever accused me of any kind of sexual misconduct,” Kavanaugh weighted. He said there was “never a hint of anything of this kind, and that’s because nothing of this thoughtful ever happened.”
And he re-affirmed that the allegations would not force him to disavow his nomination.
“You may defeat me in the final vote, but you’ll never get me to quit,” he said. “Not till hell freezes over.”
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