Veteran White House reporter April Ryan slams Trump for believing Kavanaugh — but not the Central Park Five

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan noted that President Donald Trump's complaints about the death of "innocent until proven guilty" only seems to apply when it's politically expedient.

"Let's go back about a year or so ago when President Trump, well, then-candidate Trump believed those women," Ryan said, referencing the women who accused Bill Clinton of assault and harassment who he brought out during a press conference in the fall of 2016. 

"Where are they now with him?" she asked her CNN co-panelist and host Brooke Baldwin. "That was for the moment."

Trump is "strategic in believing different people," Ryan observed.

"He didn't believe the Central Park Five, he didn't believe Bill Clinton, but he's believing all these other people," she said.

The veteran correspondent went on to note that Trump has expressed sympathy with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the face of numerous sexual assault allegations because of similar allegations leveled against the president.

"We've got to look at this and really use critical thinking with this," Ryan concluded.

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