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Fri Sep 21, 2018, 05:12 PM Sep 2018

Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn't Just Immediately Request Hush Money

WASHINGTON—Questioning the actions taken by Christine Blasey Ford in the 1980s following the alleged sexual abuse of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while they were in high school, President Donald Trump reportedly asked Friday why she didn’t just immediately request hush money. “If this thing actually happened, why didn’t she come forward 30 years ago with a demand for secret payments to keep quiet?” said Trump, adding that a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse that wasn’t instantly followed by her threatening to go public unless Kavanaugh and his family paid her off totally lacked credibility. “If the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, surely she has a copy of the demands she sent to Brett Kavanaugh or bank documents showing the transfer of a six-figure sum into her account during the ’80s that she could show us. It’s baffling—if he really did something illegal, why didn’t she just demand money for her role in covering up the crime? That’s what any normal person would do.” The president acknowledged that he could see how someone might have difficulty remembering the exact details of their involvement in a six-figure hush money payment made back in the 1980s.

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Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn't Just Immediately Request Hush Money (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
sad that it took a second... qazplm135 Sep 2018 #1
Thank God it's the Onion wryter2000 Sep 2018 #2
Ohhhh...you really had me going here...very good! nt SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #3
And The Onion thinks a tweet like this WON'T happen??? LOL. Vinca Sep 2018 #4
Art imitates life. Totally Tunsie Sep 2018 #5
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