A former White House press secretary took the Trump administration to task on Friday morning, accusing them of cynically using former Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr as a "character witness" for embattled Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh despite his own involvement in covering up a wave of sexual assaults.
Early Friday morning, Starr was invited on CNN to defend the character of Kavanaugh with whom he worked during the pursuit of former President Bill Clinton that began with an Arkansas land deal and ended in impeachment over comments Clinton made about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Starr's appearance didn't sit well with former Clinton Press secretary Joe Lockhart when he sat down with CNN host John Berman to discuss the upcoming vote on Kavanaugh.
"Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) desperately wants to vote no," Lockhart explained. "So if the others -- if they know they have [the votes of] Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and they have Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), they'll let her vote no."
"But there is a level of cynicism here we have never seen before," he continued. "Supreme Court nominees don't go out and do interviews. they don't write op-eds because they are not running for something, and that's going to have an impact on the court."
Lockhart then brought up Starr's tenure as president of Baylor University that ended with him leaving under a cloud over accusations he covered up a series of sexual assaults and rapes committed by members of the football team.
"The second thing is Republicans have a fundamental problem going forward with women," he lectured. "I was struck this morning when you were talking to Ken Starr. Here we have a character witness for someone accused of sexual assault who was forced from his job because he chose to believe his football players at Baylor University who committed multiple and repeated sexual assaults, and he's a character witness here."
"That's how blind they are to this," Lockhart concluded. "So this: they may win the battle, but they are going to lose the war. I have no doubt about that."
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