Trump Demands Evidence From Kavanaugh’s Accuser, Steps Up Defense of Supreme Court Nominee

President Donald Trump doubled up on his support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Sept. 21, and demanded that the judge’s accuser provide evidence of her allegations.

“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. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!” the president wrote on Twitter.

California professor Christine Ford detailed an accusation against Kavanaugh in a July 31 letter sent to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee which is conducting Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. To date, Ford has not provided any evidence of the claims and there is no publicly available copy of her letter. Feinstein’s office has refused to share an un-redacted copy of the letter with Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee chair.

Due to the lack of evidence, The Epoch Times is not republishing the details of Ford’s allegation. The alleged incident occurred 36 years ago, but Ford is unclear on the exact date and location.

Kavanaugh denied the allegations against him on several occasions, including under oath before the judiciary committee.

Ford’s lawyers reached out to Grassley on Sept. 20, to discuss the terms under which she would testify before the committee. Ford still prefers that the FBI conduct an investigation before her appearance. The FBI declined to investigate.

“The radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sept. 21.

Grassley set a 10 a.m. deadline on Sept. 21, for Ford to indicate whether she would be testifying at a hearing set for Sept. 24. Ford’s lawyers wrote to Grassley that Sept. 24 does not work for Ford.

Minutes after the deadline lapsed, a spokesman for the Senate Judiciary Committee had no update on the prospects of Ford’s testimony.

Feinstein disclosed the existence of Ford’s letter days before the committee was set to recommend Kavanaugh for a full Senate vote. Grassley detailed his disappointment in scathing letters to committee Democrats and Feinstein, pointing out that the ranking Democrat withheld a crucial document until after the confirmation hearings were completed.

“You chose to sit on the allegations until a politically opportune moment. I cannot overstate how disappointed I am in this decision,” Grassley wrote in a Sept. 19 letter (pdf) to Feinstein.

Republicans are eager to hear from Ford and move the confirmation forward before the midterm elections in early November. Democrats are calling to delay the confirmation with hopes of recapturing the majority in the Senate in the midterms.

“Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter. I go through this with them every single day in D.C.,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sept. 21.

In a follow-up message, Trump wrote that the Senate should vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation whether Ford testifies before the committee or not.

“Senator Feinstein and the Democrats held the letter for months, only to release it with a bang after the hearings were OVER - done very purposefully to Obstruct & Resist & Delay. Let her testify, or not, and TAKE THE VOTE!” Trump wrote.