US President Donald Trump has jumped in to defend his embattled nominee for the Supreme Court, saying Brett Kavanaugh most probably did not commit a sexual assault more than three decades ago.
“I feel so badly for him that he’s going through this, to be honest with you,” Trump said on Tuesday during a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda. “I feel so badly for him. This is not a man that deserves this.”
Lawyers for the woman accusing Kavanaugh of the 1982 sexual assault have said Christine Blasey Ford wants her allegations to be investigated by the US government before she appears for a hearing in Congress.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is overseeing Kavanaugh’s nomination, had called a hearing for Monday to examine the sexual abuse accusations, and the White House had said Kavanaugh was ready to testify.
In a letter to the committee’s chairman, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, attorneys for Ford said Tuesday that…