Trump is watching Christine Ford’s testimony on Fox News aboard Air Force One and will have heard its pundits judge her as ‘exceptionally credible’ and the hearing ‘a disaster for Republicans’
- President Donald Trump flew back to Washington Thursday as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s fate hung in the balance
- Christine Blasey Ford declared herself 100 per cent convinced it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her decades ago
- The White House confirmed Trump was watching Ford testify
- All the TVs a reporter could see were turned to Fox News coverage of the event
- Commentators lauded Ford as ‘extremely credible’ and one said the Republican-hired prosecutor didn’t ‘lay a glove’ on her
President Donald Trump tuned into his favorite network Fox News for coverage of Christine Ford’s bombshell testimony about Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh – where network commentators called the accuser ‘exceptionally credible.’
Ford raised her hand and swore to tell the truth, then answered question after question about a party where she alleges Kavanaugh climbed on top of her, groped her, and covered her mouth.
She repeatedly revealed her own anxiety, but never strayed from her story and won over a critical constituency who hold sway with Trump: Fox on-air personalities.
‘The more hesitant, the more fragile she becomes the more credible she becomes,’ said Brit Hume, a senior presence on the network.
President Donald Trump waves as he enters the White House in Washington DC on September 27, 2018, after returning from the United Nations General Assembly. The White House confirmed he tuned in to coverage of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony
‘All of us agree that this witness is exceptionally credible and Ms Mitchell has not laid a glove on her,’ said judge Andrew Napolitano, another frequent Fox contributor.
‘The court of public opinion – if our colleagues is an adequate sample of it – is that she was extremely credible and not only is Rachel Mitchell not laying a glove on her, and in my view is only helping her credibility by the gentility with which these questions are being asked and the open ended answers that the witness is being permitted to give,’ he said.
‘The president cannot be happy with this,’ he added.
Trump flew back to Washington Thursday as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s fate hung in the balance.
He indicated during a rambling Wednesday that he would be watching and that he planned to evaluate Ford.
Fox News commentators called Christine Blasey Ford ‘exceptionally credible’
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One in New York September 27, 2018 on his way back to the White House in Washington, DC.
Fox commentator Andrew Napolitano ripped the performance of lawyer Rachel Mitchell, who asked questions on behalf of the all-male Senate Republican panel members
He even put off a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein so he could focus on it.
The White House confirmed Trump was watching Ford testify during part of the flight.
A pool reporter who accompanied the president said all the TVs she could see were turned to Fox News coverage of the event.
The White House set up channels on the presidential aircraft so that CNN is not available.
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