Trump Defends Kavanaugh Amid Sexual Assault Allegations

assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee.","identifier":" anf-video- i","layout": "video", "resourceldentifier":"VideoResourceRef i","role": "video", "stillImageIdentifier":"49ebb5lab6e159233c9f01512bffaa40b", "type": "vid eo"}, {"identifier":" anf-heading6-1", "layout": "video- headline", "role": "heading6","text":"Trump Calls Kavanaugh Accusations a€~ Totally Politicalae™", "textStyle":"video-headline", "type": "text"}, {"identifier":" anf-caption- 1","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":43, "start ":138},"textStyle": "photo- credit"}],"layout":"default-caption", "role": "caption", "text":"President Trump offered his latest defense of Judge Brett Kavanaugh amid the sexual assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Sept. 24, 2018. ","type™:"text"}],"identifier":" anf-container-2","layout"™:"image- container", "role":"container", "type":"container"}],"identifier":" anf-section-— 2","layout":"default- section", "role":"section", "scene": {"fadeColor":"#FFFFFF","type":"fading sticky header"} , "type": "section"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 7","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":294,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"},{"range™:{"length":294,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role": "body", "text": "WASHINGTON 4€" President Trump on Monday said the sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, which are slowing proceedings on his nomination to be the newest Supreme Court justice, could be one of the d€cesingle most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate for anything.a€", "type": "text"}, {"additions": [{"URL":"https://apple.news/AnMOQbeCORkm0V_q- OJOONg", "range": {"length":32,"start":320},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 8", "inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":353, "start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range™: {"length":353,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-— body", "role":"body", "text":"The president said he continues to support Judge Kavanaugh, and dismissed the allegations about the judgead€™s conduct decades ago as d€cetotally political.d4€ Mr. Trump characterized the women making them as people coming A€ceout of the woodwork.a4€ His comments came during brief remarks in New York on Monday morning ahead of his appearance at the United Nations.","type":"text"}, {"identifier"™:" anf- body-9", "inlineTextStyles": [{"range": {"length":343,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- I"}, {"range™: {"length":343,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-— body", "role": "body", "text": "Mr. Trumpa€™s statements on Monday echoed his remarks ina radio interview to be broadcast on Monday morning, in which Mr. Trump acknowledged that he would most likely not be able to persuade any Democrats to vote for Judge Kavanaugh, meaning that he would have to hold nearly every Republican to win confirmation in the narrowly divided Senate.","type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 10", "inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":242,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™: {"length":242,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default— body", "role": "body", "text": "a€eWeae™lL1 get almost no Democrat,a€ he told Geraldo Rivera for the debut show of d€eGeraldo in Clevelanda€ on WTAM radio. d€eWe may get a couple in states where I won by many, many points 4€" you understand that 4€" but weae™11 essentially get no Democrat.a€","type"™:"text"}, {"bannerType": "any", "identifier":" anf- banner advertisement-1", "layout": "ComponentLayout— 4","role":"banner advertisement", "type":"banner advertisement"}, {"additions": [{"URL™:"h ttps://apple.news/AP818R8qRS2un55np- SLuuw", "range": {"length":35,"start":24},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 11","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":190,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range™: {"length":190,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-— body", "role": "body", "text": "Yet Mr. Trump suggested Christine Blasey Fordae™s allegations against Judge Kavanaugh were suspect because she never reported them to the authorities. a€eThis went 36 years without a complaint.4€", "type": "text"}, {"additions": [{"URL":"https://apple.news/ASDpblvcRQemX7gbp w9LOyg", "range": {"length":20,"start":254}, "type™:"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body- 12","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":456,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"}, {"range"™:{"length":456,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role":"body","text":"Dr. Blasey, 51, who also goes by her married name, Ford, has accused Judge Kavanaugh, 53, of sexually assaulting her while he was drunk during a high school party when they were both teenagers. He has categorically denied the allegation, and the two are scheduled to testify separately before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Mr. Trump has stuck by Judge Kavanaugh, who would join Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, his first appointee, on the high court.","type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 13","inlineTextStyles": [{"range":{"length":136,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- i"},{"range"™:{"length":136,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default- body", "role": "body", "text": "a€ceHopefully, wed€™ll have a second judge very shortly who is a fantastic, fantastic man, a fantastic talent and intellect,a€ Mr. Trump HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028448