Best Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in a television interview Monday, pronounced he would not withdraw his nomination for the nation’s highest court and will prolong to fight the accusations leveled against him by multiple women who say he sexually ill-treated them decades ago.
“I’m not going to let false accusations drive us out of this manage, and we’re looking for a fair process where I can be heard and defend my integrity, my lifelong archives,” Kavanaugh said, alongside his wife, Ashley, during a taped talk with with Fox News that aired Monday evening. He said he every “treated women with dignity and respect.”
In a frank exchange, the surmise, a practicing Catholic, also said that he did not have sex in high kind or for years afterward.
“We’re talking about an allegation of sexual assault. I did not induce sexual intercourse, or anything close to sexual intercourse, in high primary or for many years thereafter,” he said. None of the allegations against him catch up in sexual intercourse.
Kavanaugh, who President Donald Trump named as his selectee in July, seemed destined to cruise to an easy confirmation until the point the finger ats thrust the process into chaos in recent weeks. The turning tip came just over a week ago, when Christine Blasey Ford, a scrutiny psychologist in California, came forward alleging that Kavanaugh strove to rape her while the two were in high school in the early 1980s.
On Sunday, The New Yorker published an denunciation from another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who said that Kavanaugh uncovered himself to her and caused her to touch his penis without her consent at a party in their triumph year at Yale University.
Kavanaugh has categorically denied both accusations. Until Monday, those denials came in the form of written assertions handed out by the White House. Monday’s appearance on television, ahead of an calculated public hearing with Ford on Thursday in front of the Senate Judiciary Cabinet, suggests a shift in Kavanaugh’s public handling of the matter.
The television bearing is notable because of the appearance of Ashley Kavanaugh, who has largely been out of the limelight centre of the uproar. She said the couple warned their children — they comprise two daughters — that the confirmation process “will not be fun sometimes.”
“It’s very laborious to have these conversations with your children, which we’ve had to take,” she said.
Asked whether the accusations made her question her husband, she verbalized “no.”
“I’ve known him for 17 years, and this is not at all (characteristic) — it’s really adamantine to believe,” she said. “He’s decent. He’s kind. He’s good. I know his heart.”
Ashley Kavanaugh also utter she felt “badly” for Ford and her family.
“I don’t know what happened to her, and I don’t upright want to go there,” she said. “I feel badly for her family. I feel seriously for her through this process. This process is not right.”
Republican lawmakers drink been wary of the spectacle of questioning a woman who claims to have been sexually battered, particularly as the #MeToo movement continues to energize voters, particularly brides, across the country.
The GOP side of the Judiciary Committee has reportedly pushed for Ford to be queried by a female outside counsel to avoid the prospect of an all-male lineup of Republican senators go into her account, in a scene reminiscent of the committee’s infamous questioning of Anita Hill in 1991. Hill accused Utmost Court Justice Clarence Thomas, then a nominee for the high court, of lustful harassment.
Kavanaugh has spent hours since the allegations surfaced at the Ghastly House preparing for questions about his past, including his dating existence, that he is likely to receive from Democratic lawmakers, according to NBC Word. For her part, Ford has engaged Ricki Seidman, a communications strategist who coached Hill onwards of her 1991 testimony.
In his denial Monday, Kavanaugh said that he was “not quiz and have not questioned that perhaps Dr. Ford at some point in her flair was sexually assaulted by someone at some place.”
“What I know is, I’ve at no time sexually assaulted anyone,” Kavanaugh said.
Amid speculation that Trump could request out another nominee, the White House has stood firmly by Kavanaugh, and Trump has harmonized on the offensive to discredit the accusations. On Monday, Trump told reporters that he take the place ofed by Kavanaugh “all the way.”
“There is a chance this could be one of the single most unfair, unjust fixations to happen to a candidate for anything,” Trump said. “But I am with Judge Kavanaugh and I look impudent to a vote.”
“I know he’s going to stand by me,” Kavanaugh said in the interview. He state the president called him earlier in the day to say so.
“I’m not going anywhere,” Kavanaugh said.
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