Donald Trump chatting with Sean Hannity, Cohen's only other client and for whom Cohen also paid off a female accuser, tut-tutting about Ms. Ford's credibility.
Trump Asks Sean Hannity Why Christine Ford Didn't Tell The FBI About Kavanaugh "36 Years Ago"
Ahead of a hearing on Monday to examine the sexual misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh (which he denies), his accuser is requesting an FBI investigation into the matter before she testifies.
On Thursday, joining a number of Republican senators who have dismissed the request, President Trump asked Sean Hannity why Christine Ford didn't "call the FBI 36 years ago," right after she alleges the assault occurred.
"You could say why didn't someone call the FBI 36 years ago?" Trump said in a live interview with Hannity before a rally in Las Vegas.
"You can also say, when did this all happen? What is going on?"
The president lamented the effects of the allegation on Kavanaugh's nomination, saying, "I think it’s a very sad situation, he’s an outstanding person. … To see what’s going on is just very, very sad."
Every time he opens his mouth this president becomes even more disgusting and contemptible.
"I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents,” Trump said on Twitter Friday morning.
"The radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn't someone call the FBI 36 years ago?" he added in a third tweet on the issue.
In an earlier post, Trump lauded Kavanaugh as "a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers."
As an FBI retiree said on MSNBC the other day, there is not a trial and will be none, after all this time.
Brett Kavanaugh is not on trial and the FBI investigation into him and accusations against him was not and would not be a criminal investigation but an investigation into suitability for very high office.
Accusations against him don't need to be proved at all, let alone beyond a reasonable doubt.
He will be an unsuitable candidate if he is under a cloud, since the office requires a sterling and unsullied reputation.
And since his denials are in fact less credible than her accusation, he's already under a cloud.
An investigation would also take a quick look at Ms. Ford to see if anything leaps out that makes her accusations less credible.
Given what we know, that seems unlikely.
Kavanaugh will be confirmed, and that will be the second time the Republicans have put a man under a cloud for sex matters onto the court, Clarence Thomas - who vehemently played the race card during the controversy - having been the first.
And then the Democrats and all who are under the protection of their progressive achievements will be screwed, all the more so as more than half of them would join Republican protests at any suggestion of court packing, such as moves toward removal of the legislative cap on the size of the court at 9 justices.
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