Constrained From Fighting, Trump Is Left a Spectator With Kavanaugh in Peril

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Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, teetered over a sexual assault allegation from decades ago, President Trump vented his frustration about his own party’s unwillingness to aggressively hit back.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-4","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":447,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":447,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"Speaking to thousands of supporters at a rally in Missouri on Friday, Mr. Trump recounted how he had implored an unnamed senator to “fight for” Judge Kavanaugh, and “not worry about the other side.” The lawmaker pushed back, the president said, citing his experience from 25 years in politics. But Mr. Trump said he had told the man that he knew better: “I’ve been in politics for two and a half years, and I’m the president of the United States.”","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/ASDpb1vcRQemX7gbpw9LQYg","range":{"length":45,"start":327},"type":"link"}],"identifier":"_anf-body-5","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":421,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":421,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"The exchange highlighted the clash between Mr. Trump’s pugnacious instincts and the political realities surrounding Judge Kavanaugh’s imperiled nomination. Mr. Trump is confronting a situation that is beyond his control, with the Senate Judiciary Committee making the decisions, including a momentous one on Sunday in which it reached an agreement to hear public testimony from the judge’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-6","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":414,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":414,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"With one notable exception late last week, Mr. Trump has heeded instructions from his advisers and Republican senators to hold his fire, lest he provoke a calamitous backlash. Constrained by his party’s perilous electoral prospects and the accusations of sexual misconduct he himself has faced in the past, the president is virtually powerless to influence the outcome of perhaps his administration’s top priority.","type":"text"},{"bannerType":"any","identifier":"_anf-banner_advertisement-1","layout":"ComponentLayout-4","role":"banner_advertisement","type":"banner_advertisement"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-7","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":503,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":503,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"The public spectacle that will surround Dr. Blasey’s testimony on Thursday illustrates the degree to which a confirmation effort that was once seen as an island of functionality in a tumultuous White House has become the latest messy episode in a presidency full of them. The development could carry profound consequences not only for the future of the Supreme Court but also for Republicans facing the growing possibility of losing control of Congress in November, partly at the hands of female voters.","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"https://apple.news/AyWjf_1bkP7-54sKLmXS3Ng","range":{"length":14,"start":113},"type":"link"},{"URL":"https://apple.news/AyWjf_1bkP7-54sKLmXS3Ng","range":{"length":13,"start":127},"type":"link"}],"identifier":"_anf-body-8","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":266,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":266,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"As the risk that Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination could collapse has mounted — a new allegation of sexual misconduct published by The New Yorker on Sunday night raised fresh questions about whether he could survive — Mr. Trump has been forced into the role of spectator.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-9","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":403,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":403,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"The president was briefed on the allegation on Sunday, according to people in contact with him, and was remaining firmly behind Judge Kavanaugh, who is also scheduled to testify before the committee and who has vehemently denied the allegations. 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For Mr. Trump, the hearing is dangerously unpredictable, carrying the potential to tarnish not only Judge Kavanaugh but also the Republican Party itself weeks before the election.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-12","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":466,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":466,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"While the president, cognizant of the stakes, has mostly restrained himself from attacking Dr. Blasey publicly, he reverted to form on Friday, questioning her credibility in a tweet in which he demanded to know why she or her parents had not reported the assault to law enforcement authorities if it had been “as bad as she says.” Later, at his rally in Springfield, Mo., Mr. Trump said Judge Kavanaugh would be confirmed because “he was born for” the Supreme Court.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-13","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":264,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":264,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"His tweet drew a backlash from Senator Susan Collins of Maine, one of a few moderate Republicans whose votes will determine whether Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed. She noted that many sexual assaults are never reported, and called the president’s remark “appalling.”","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-14","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":368,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":368,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, who has teamed up with Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, to try to push through Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, privately told Mr. Trump that his tweet was not helpful. And on Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a member of the Judiciary Committee, had similar counsel.","type":"text"},{"bannerType":"any","identifier":"_anf-banner_advertisement-3","layout":"ComponentLayout-4","role":"banner_advertisement","type":"banner_advertisement"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-15","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":91,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":91,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"“I would advise the president to let us handle this,” Mr. Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-16","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":375,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":375,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"Mr. McConnell has explained to the president the political reality that, as much as Republicans might want to try to quickly move past Dr. Blasey’s allegation, they must tread carefully to avoid alienating Ms. Collins or other senators who have been noncommittal about their position on the judge, including Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-17","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":339,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":339,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"With Senate Republicans holding only a 51-to-49 majority, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who led painstaking negotiations with Dr. Blasey’s legal team over the terms of the hearing, has been driven in large part by a desire to accommodate the concerns of senators in his own party.","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-18","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":433,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":433,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"“You’re dealing with two different worlds,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican consultant and former Senate aide who helped shepherd the confirmation of Neil M. 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Speaking about Dr. Blasey’s accusation before the latest charge surfaced on Sunday night, Mr. Graham said, “Unless there’s something more, no, I’m not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh’s life over this.”","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-23","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":503,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":503,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"But if Dr. Blasey comes across as a compelling witness giving credible and emotional testimony of a traumatic event, Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee — all of them men — run the risk of appearing callous and chauvinistic by pressing her on details or questioning her account. Democrats are likely to question Judge Kavanaugh about his drinking habits and social conduct — open-ended questions that people close to him say he plans to avoid answering, but that will be difficult to deflect.","type":"text"},{"bannerType":"any","identifier":"_anf-banner_advertisement-5","layout":"ComponentLayout-4","role":"banner_advertisement","type":"banner_advertisement"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-24","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":255,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"},{"range":{"length":255,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-body","role":"body","text":"Democrats, too, must be careful not to appear to be dismissing Judge Kavanaugh’s account out of hand. 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