Trump falsely says Kavanaugh was 'proven innocent' at swearing-in

[riversedge]

Source: The Guardian




President apologises to judge for ‘terrible pain’ of addressing sexual assault allegations during confirmation process


Tue 9 Oct 2018 06.35 EDT First published on Mon 8 Oct 2018 21.35 EDT



Donald Trump, speaking at a triumphalist White House ceremony, has made the baseless claim that the new supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh was “proven innocent” of allegations of sexual assault.

In what he acknowledged was a break from tradition, the US president told a packed East Room on Monday: “On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception.”


Trump, often criticised for rubbing salt in national wounds rather than healing them, continued: “What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. Our country, a man or woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.”

Clarence Thomas, who was confirmed to the court in 1991 despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, joined applause in the room. Sitting beside him, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal justice, did not. All eight sitting supreme court justices were present.........................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/08/brett-kavanaugh-swearing-in-donald-trump

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[Botany]

1. Lie and lie boldly

7 people all of whom could corroborate Dr. Ford's story were not called.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/01/us/politics/kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-witnesses.html

[duforsure]

2. Just print trump the liar is at it again,

Instead of repeating his lies to people. Propaganda won't work unless the media changes and stops repeating him and his propaganda all the time. Only print the truth , and no more lies he's telling . That's his biggest enemy , the truth.

[33taw]

3. His base believes it was a criminal trial.

[mwooldri]

4. If it were a criminal trial in Scotland...

... then I believe that the verdict would be "Not Proven".

There's not enough to convict him, yet there's not enough to exonerate him. Legally a "Not Proven" verdict gives the same outcome as a "Not Guilty" verdict in Scots law... but it sends a message to the defendant that "we the jury think you're guilty, we can't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt".

[riversedge]

5. There is a pic of the Justices at the WH--with RBG not clapping but I was unable to

transfer it to my OP

[Voices Of Reason]

6. RBG did not clap

That is the first thing I saw was the Justice just sit there and not clap. I do not know if she clapped at other things, but she did not clap a lot. I saw that the first thing I noticed when the President Said the Kav is not guilty or whatever words he used.

[logosoco]

7. It was essentially a job interview.

The only thing proven was that trump is very consistent with hiring and appointing not-so -great people in inappropriate positions.