US President Donald Trump’s conservative Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, strikes back at an allegation that he committed sexual assault as a teenager, saying he was ready to “defend [his] integrity” before the Senate.
“I have never done anything like what the accuser describes — to her or to anyone,” Kavanaugh says in a statement released by the White House in response to the accusation made by a California college professor.
“I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation from 36 years ago and defend my integrity.”
On Sunday, Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, went public for the first time Sunday to accuse Trump’s pick of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s, prompting calls by opposition Democrats to postpone the nomination vote.
— AFP
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