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The FBI says they never told Trump or anyone at the White House this. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI did not tell Trump or anyone at the White House that the bureau doesn't want to be involved in an investigation of allegations against Kavanaugh.
Hillary Clinton explained how easy it would be for the White House to direct the FBI to investigate the sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, and how Republicans are trying to rush the process and railroad Christine Blasey Ford.
In the face of the vicious death threats and fake news lies being spread about Dr. Christine Blasey after she came reluctantly forward with the allegation that Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had attempted to rape her years ago, Senator Chuck Schumer D-NY) backed her call for an FBI investigation prior to a hearing.
"Nothing of substance and nothing legitimate can happen by Monday," Lisa Banks, an attorney for Ford, told CNN.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) told Republicans that if they are going to have their women staff question Christine Blasey Ford, they need to step down.
The woman accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault decades ago says she wants the FBI to probe the allegations before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, CNN reported on Tuesday.
According to reports from inside the White House, even Donald Trump knows that impeachment is coming soon after the election.
Democrats got a huge win as Republican billionaires are no longer going to be able to fund dark money express advocacy ads without having their identity disclosed.
Mark Judge, a man identified as a witness to an alleged sexual assault by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, said on Tuesday he does not want to speak publicly on the matter.
Video from 2015 shows Brett Kavanaugh saying that what happened during his time in prep school where he is accused of sexually assaulting Christine Ford stays at Georgetown Prep.
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WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the United States plunged deeper into a trade war on Tuesday after Beijing added $60 billion of U.S. products to its import tariff list in retaliation for President Donald Trump‘s planned levies on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the FBI should not investigate a California professor's allegations of sexual assault against Trump's pick for U.S. Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, adding that he wants his nominee confirmed quickly.
A new Marquette University Law School Poll released on Tuesday found that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers leads Gov. Scott Walker by 5 points in Wisconsin.
While speaking at the White House, Trump trashed the GOP efforts to cover for Kavanaugh by saying that there is plenty of time and everyone should be allowed to speak up and speak out.
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Andy Wright, Senior Fellow and Founding Editor of Just Security, investigations lawyer and law professor, noted that the burden is on the nominee to demonstrate fitness for a lifetime appointment, contrary to a criminal prosecution burden upon the accuser.
“Of course there is never any excuse to rape someone. But it’s possible to have two seemingly contradictory thoughts to be both equally true. There’s never any excuse to rape, a crime that I think is almost akin to murder because the rapist kills a part of the human soul. And yet what women wear and their body language also send signals about their sexuality,” Daily Caller writer and Georgetown Preparatory School Kavanaugh classmate Mark Judge wrote in Acculturated.
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims U.S. President Donald Trump paid her off to keep their tryst a secret, goes into uncomplimentary detail about their alleged sexual encounter in a new memoir, according to the Guardian newspaper.
The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are being blasted by Senate Democrats for holding a hearing on the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh that will be a sham.
CNN was read a redacted copy of the letter Dr. Christine Ford Blasey sent to Senator Feinstein and it's chillingly worse than what is being reported in the media, especially as it suggests it was planned in advance with malice.
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, warning that President Donald Trump is undermining U.S. security, has written a book on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's efforts to safeguard the United States, his publisher said on Tuesday.