President Donald Trump on Tuesday took swipes at Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for sitting on sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh in order to protect the identity of the victim, telling reporters it’s a “terrible thing” that the accusations weren’t “given to us months ago.”
Trump also questioned the accuser’s willingness to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday: “Judge Kavanaugh is anxious to do it, I don’t know about the other party.”
Trump swipes at Feinstein, Ford: "Terrible thing" that Kavanaugh allegations "weren't given to us months ago" … I know Kavanaugh is "anxious to" testify, "I don't know about the other party." pic.twitter.com/exBVUkD5Md
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 18, 2018
This criticism from the right about the timing of these allegations makes me laugh. Even if Feinstein withheld the information deliberately, just to sandbag Kavanaugh at the last second (which from what I understand, isn’t the case at all, but setting that aside, even IF that were the case) IT’S FUCKING POLITICS! You’re ALLOWED to sandbag the opposing party that way. In fact, Repugs used to be great at it
“waa waa, why weren’t these allegations given to us months ago, wa wa wa!?”
Ask your own boy that, idiot. It’s not the democrats’ job to vet your nominees, it’s YOURS!!!
“Why didn’t you do our job for us and do all of these background checks and investigations before we got egg all over our face”, asked the ostensibly most powerful man in the world. “No loyalty from the opposition. Sad (or mean)!”
“This is a terrible thing that took place and it’s frankly a terrible thing that this information wasn’t given to us a long time ago.” (emphasis added)
Maybe I’m overthinking his wording, but this sounds like it’s a long way from “this never happened.”
“…Allegations weren’t given to us months ago.” That sounds like surrender.