The co-founder of Women for Trump, Amy Kremer, in a Thursday CNN appearance tried to smear Christine Ford, who has accused President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavavaugh, of sexual assault. But fellow panel members Ana Navarro and Areva Martin weren't taking it.
Ford "knew that she was going to come forward with this," Kremer began. "This is planned."
Kremer then launched a series of accusations aimed at Ms. Ford. "She scrubbed her social media, goes and hires an attorney, a Democrat [sic] attorney that's been associated with Al Franken, Bill Clinton and others. Then she goes and takes a polygraph test. It's leaked by the Democrats, it's leaked by the Democrats," she insisted, sputtering angrily. "This has been planned from the get-go
None of Kremer's statements sat well with Ana Navarro, who's spent much of her public life as a Republican strategist. "There's some things in life that should not be partisan. There's some things that should not be about left and right. They should be about right and wrong," Navarro said. "When it comes to sexual abuse, that's one of those things."
Navarro pointed out that Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, which is why "fitness of character" was so important. "I'm not talking about ideology," she said. "I'm talking about fitness of character."
She also didn't understand why the FBI hadn't already been called in by Kavanaugh or his supporters. "It behooves Judge Kavanaugh himself to call, to request for the FBI investigation because he doesn't want to go into that court with that cloud over him," she said.
We already have one Supreme Court justice who a lot of the country thinks got away with sexual impropriety. The last thing he wants is to be the second one."
Martin, meanwhile, also took issue with Kremer, including her tone. "Amy, just because you raise your voice doesn't make your arguments more persuasive," Martin said, mocking the conservative activist, who continued shouting over both Martin and Navarro. "We allowed you to be heard. You need to respect us and allow us to be heard."
Dianne Feinstein's handling of the story, which Kremer took issue with, "has nothing to do with Dr. Ford and her right to be given a fair process," said Martin. "Nothing can be fair when she's being rushed an arbitrary deadline. There are no deadlines set for when this confirmation vote has to take place."
Martin added that Judiciary Republicans had set up an "arbitrary deadline" for Ford's testimony, presumably in order to push through Kavanaugh's nomination before midterm elections that are expected to be disastrous for the Republican party.
"They've said to her 'you provide us with your statement by Friday, you show up by Monday and if you don't, you will forever be forbidden from telling your story'," Martin said.
"And Judge Kavanaugh, as Ana said, should want an FBI investigation," Martin added. "The fact that he hasn't called for one, I think, calls into question his fitness to serve on the Supreme Court."
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