President Donald Trump expressed support for his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, after a bruising day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him," the president wrote in a post on Twitter almost immediately after Thursday's hearing concluded. "His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats' search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!"
Kavanaugh and a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, appeared separately before lawmakers on Thursday for nearly nine hours of testimony. Ford has accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly pinning her to a bed and groping her over her clothing at a high school party in the early 1980s.
"I never attended a gathering like the one that Dr. Ford describes in her allegation," Kavanaugh told senators Thursday in a an emotional opening statement. "I've never sexually assaulted Dr. Ford or anyone."
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