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| Brett Kavanaugh: Trump doubts 'drunk' sex assault accuser | Brett Kavanaugh: Trump doubts 'drunk' sex assault accuser |
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| US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on a woman who accuses his Supreme Court nominee of misconduct as she was intoxicated and "messed up". | US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on a woman who accuses his Supreme Court nominee of misconduct as she was intoxicated and "messed up". |
| "The second accuser has nothing," Mr Trump told reporters at the UN. "She admits that she was drunk." | "The second accuser has nothing," Mr Trump told reporters at the UN. "She admits that she was drunk." |
| On Sunday, a former Yale classmate said Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in the 1980s. | On Sunday, a former Yale classmate said Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party in the 1980s. |
| On Thursday, Judge Kavanaugh and another accuser from his high school years testify before a US Senate panel. | On Thursday, Judge Kavanaugh and another accuser from his high school years testify before a US Senate panel. |
| "The second accuser doesn't even know, she thinks maybe it could have been him, maybe not," Mr Trump said during a UN meeting on Tuesday. | |
| "This is a person and this is a series of statements that's gonna take one of the most talented, one of the greatest intellects from a judicial standpoint in our country, going to keep him off the United States Supreme Court." | |
| On Sunday, Deborah Ramirez, a Yale university classmate of Judge Kavanaugh, told the New Yorker that he had once exposed himself to her at a dormitory party. | |
| Ms Ramirez, 53, said she ended up touching his genitals while attempting to push him away. | |
| The article said Ms Ramirez acknowledges gaps in her memory caused by alcohol that night. | |
| On Tuesday, Mr Trump called the new report "a con game being played by the Democrats". | |
| "She said she was totally inebriated," he said of Ms Ramirez. "She doesn't know if it was him but it might have him. Oh gee, lets not make him a Supreme Court judge because of that." |