Brett Kavanaugh looked in desperate need of a fighter on his behalf Thursday as he gave impassioned testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying allegations of sexual assault.
He found it in Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who told the judge straight out, “You’ve got nothing to apologize for.”
Kavanaugh alternated from anger to tears during fiery testimony. He took deep breaths and lengthy sips of water to gain his composure. He looked every bit the man who said his family “has been destroyed by this senator, destroyed.”
Democratic senators pressed Kavanaugh over and over again to request an FBI investigation if he had nothing to hide.
Enter Graham, who said that if Democrats truly wanted an FBI investigation, they could have spoken up when Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was first made aware of the allegations from Christine Blasey Ford. Just hours earlier, Ford described for senators what she says was an assault by Kavanaugh on a summer evening three decades ago. Kavanaugh denied the allegation.
“What you want to do is destroy this guy’s life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020,” Graham said with his voice shaking, pointing at Democratic lawmakers.
Graham said he voted for Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both nominated by a Democratic president, and he told Kavanaugh to say hello to them when he sees them. “I’d never do to them what you’ve done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics.”
Returning his glare to Kavanaugh, he said: “You’re looking for a fair process? You came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend.”
Graham’s comments seemed to buck up Kavanaugh’s mood. He managed a smile when Graham asked if he considered the confirmation process to be like a job interview. “This is not a job interview,” Graham told him. “This is hell.”
MUST WATCH: Graham slams Democrats, says they want to "destroy this guy's life" and hope they win in 2020, calls the process a "sham" and tells Kavanaugh, "you're looking for a fair process? You came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend" – ABC pic.twitter.com/u0oXxK6wKg
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 27, 2018
The comments also seemed to lift the White House. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted: “@LindseyGrahamSC has more decency and courage than every Democrat member of the committee combined. God bless him.”
Graham’s independent streak has sometimes got him into trouble with conservatives, but he won plaudits from many of them on Twitter. “Blistering statement from Lindsey Graham is as strong a denunciation of this process as I’ve ever heard,” tweeted longtime Fox journalist Britt Hume.
He also won a large number of detractors as #LindseyGraham lit up on Twitter.
Republican senators gathered for a closed-door meeting after the hearing and gave Graham a round of applause.
“Lindsey Graham is Lindsey Graham,” said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., comparing him to the TV attorney “Matlock.” ”He did a good job.”
Sen. Graham says he feels "ambushed"
“Their goal is to delay this past the midterms so they can win the senate & never allow Trump to fill this seat”
"Here's what I'm more convinced of: The friends on the other side set it up to be just the way it is"pic.twitter.com/a7PA6MluFn
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 27, 2018
WATCH: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Slips Envelope To Dr. Ford's Lawyer Following Hearing pic.twitter.com/TG2b0KGVvQ
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 27, 2018
(AP)
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What a feeble excuse for a man. Both of them. Playing into every white male stereotype that is out there.
Kavanaugh feels he is entitled to be a supreme court justice, and is mad that some girl is in his way.
He can only whine and cry about the truth that is tripping him up when he was so close he could smell the beer at his victory party. He cries about the hell he has been through?
Howabout the true decades of hell that Dr ford has obviously been through?
Human garbage.
Time for a third party, if republicans fail to defend whats right.
Senator Graham’s phony indignation is the real “sham” here. If kavanaugh is actually guilty, he’s got plenty to apologize for.
Btw senator, does the name Merrick Garland ring a bell? If not, ask Mitch McConnell, he’s sure to remember.
To: Amiti
I’m surprised somewhat that a person of your background should so quickly condemn Mr Kavanaugh. I very confident that Mr. Kavanaugh does not endorse abortion or gay rights. I am also sure frum people do not endorse such abominations against HaShem. In my many trips to Lakewood, N.. and the many, many frum I know most would condemn Mr. Kavanaugh if a court of law finds him guilty, but you Amiti have acted as judge, jury, and executioner.
Your comments and logic defy Torah and the Talmud. I would remind you that a past president was more “guilty”
of said crimes and occupied a higher office—and did you condemn Clinton as vociferous as you now do Mr. Kavanaugh ??
Lastly, may I suggest you read R. Avigdor Miller’s book entitled The Divine Holocaust.
A very,very great Rabbi and a somewhat close friend who lives in Lakewood, N.J. has repeatedly affirm that I as a goy
can ask you and all Jews to: do More Talmud Torah, More Davvening ad More Chessed—doing so may well alter your present thinking.
Shalom,
A goy,
Gerry Mullen
Mr Mullen:
The final of the seven Noachide laws that are obligatory upon all man kind is to appoint judges and systems of enforcement.
I can not trust a man who has lied about his drinking habits while uder oath to be an objective, honest enforcer of morality. Period.
Whether or not to believe his side regarding dr ford does not change this point.
The republicans abandoned any moral claim to the ten commandments when they embraced trump. Four decades of talmud Torah, davening and chessed have taught me that abortion ,gay marriage and the second amendment are not the only defining yardstick by how God measures a persons true value.
Kavanaughs unhinged and truly obnoxious behavior thursday afternoon is symptomatic of his own deep, latent character flaws, and those of the child that nominated him.
There was no shortage of pro life, pro seven noachide laws judges to nominate, but trump gravitated to the one he felt most alike to.
Bill Clinton was a terrible moral example, but kavanaugh is a swine who sticks his feet out and says”look at me. I am kosher”. If he can sit in the same chair that is still wet from Dr Fords tears and angrily denounce her as a lying conspiricy, why do i care what his vote will be on abortion? He just murdered a woman again, in public.
rt, you still have not come up with explanation why you poisoned your grandmother.
chareidi amiti, you really should change your name to ‘chareidi stupidity’, that would fit you better.
Hillary withstood 11 hours of questioning without breaking a sweat. Kavanaugh lasts less than 5 minutes before breaking down in tears.