Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who's angry defense of Brett Kavanaugh was mocked on 'Saturday Night Live,' says the Supreme Court nominee is not a 'stumbling bumbling drunk gang rapist' so there is no need to question his college classmates about his drinking.
'I think you're trying to portray him as a stumbling bumbling drunk gang rapist who during high school and college was Bill Cosby. Six FBI background checks over the years would have uncovered this,' Graham said on ABC's 'This Week,' when asked why the FBI would not be interviewing Yale University students who claimed to have seen Kavanaugh binge drinking.
Graham repeated his defense when he was asked a second time if Kavanaugh's school contemporaries should be interviewed.
'He has had six FBI background checks. He has been on the political stage for 26 years. He's not a stumbling, bumbling drunk. I don't believe that you could accomplish what he has accomplished, to have been a serial rapist in high school, and stop it for the rest of your life,' he said.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Brett Kavanaugh is not a 'stumbling bumbling drunk gang rapist' so there is no need to question his college classmates about his drinking
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's angry defense of Brett Kavanaugh (above) was mocked on 'Saturday Night Live'
He added: 'So the 'devil's triangle' is not what people said on the internet, it is a drinking game. I think he's highly qualified. I think he's a capable man. I think he was - his life was ruined here. I'm going to vote for him unless some bombshell comes out that I don't know about.'
Kavanaugh was asked about the 'devil's triangle' reference in his yearbook during his testimony on Thursday. He said it as a drinking game played with quarters. Urban dictionary says it's a threesome with one woman and two men.
Democrats have raised concern about the limited scope of the FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault against President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the administration 'is not micromanaging' the FBI probe.
'The White House is not micromanaging this process. The Senate is dictating the terms,' Sanders said on 'Fox News Sunday.'
Questions have been raised about whether investigators will question Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh and his Georgetown Prep friend Mark Judge of being part of a group of boys that drugged and raped women.
Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.
Graham called it 'outrageous.'
'I think the allegation that she makes is outrageous, not one Democrat mentioned it. But Mark Judge who is named by Ms. Swetnick as being part of a gang rape and the drugging women will be asked did he ever see this happen or did see Kavanaugh engage in it,' he said.
Agents are going to interview Judge as they investigate Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh held her to a bed, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth when she screamed when they were at a high school party in the 1980s.
Judge will also be questioned about Swentick, according to reports.
Kavanaugh as denied Ford's allegation.
There are also questions why the FBI won't speak to Kavanaugh's high school and college classmates who have said in interviews with reporters that Kavanaugh drank heavily, including some who claimed he drank to excess.
White House counsel Don McGahn, working with Senate Republicans, came up with the list of four witnesses: Judge; Leland Keyser, a high school friend of Ford's whom she said attended the high school party in question but was not told of Kavanaugh's alleged assault on Ford; P.J. Smyth, another guest at the high school party; and Debra Ramirez, who charged Kavanaugh with exposing himself to her during a college party when they were both students at Yale University, thrusting his penis in her face and forcing her to touch it when she pushed him away.
Graham did say he would demand a federal investigation into who leaked Ford's letter that she sent to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He also said he wants to know who in Feinstein's office referred Ford to her attorney, Debra Katz.
Ford, in her testimony in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, said Feinstein's office referred her to Katz.
'But what we will investigate is who Dianne Feinstein's office referred Dr. Ford to Ms. Katz, that's illegal, inappropriate in the Senate. So the FBI will be a supplemental background investigation. Then I'm going to call for an investigation of what happened in this committee. Who betrayed Dr. Ford's trust, who in Feinstein's office recommended Katz as a lawyer, why did Ms. Ford not know that the committee was willing to go to California?,' he said.
'We're going to do a wholesale full-scale investigation of what I think was a despicable process to deter her from having it at the end,' he added.
Ford had sent a letter to Feinstein, her senator, after she discussed her allegation against Kavanaugh with her local Congresswoman, Anna Eshoo of California. Eshoo recommended Ford write the letter to Feinstein and had one of her aides deliver it to one of Feinstein's aides.
In the letter, Ford requested privacy, which Feinstein said she was respecting. After the letter's existence was reported in the press, the senator sent it to the FBI with Ford's personally identifiable information redacted.
Ford went public in an interview with The Washington Post.
Feinstein has denied she or anyone on her staff has leaked the letter. Ryan Grimm, an editor of The Intercept, which first reported the letter's existence, said they did not get it from Feinstein's staff.
Graham is determined to find the leaker.
'All I can tell you is it came from somebody with a political motive. There were three people who had the letter, people in Feinstein's office, the congresswoman from California, and Ms. Katz and the legal team,' he said.
He added: 'If the shoe were on the other foot, the Republicans had done this, we would be destroyed. We would be under ethical investigation. So I'm going to make sure that when this debacle is over that we look at what happened to deter it in the future.'
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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