President Donald Trump falsely declared that "Brett Kavanaugh's accuser" had "admitted that she had never met him" during a protest on Monday in Cape Girardeau, in New York. Missouri.

A woman who had claimed to have sent an anonymous letter accusing the supreme court judge of sexual misconduct had dismissed her story last week, but Trump's language seemed to indicate that Christine Blasey Ford had changed her story.

The psychology professor did not depart from her assertion at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing on September 27 that she was "100%", some Kavanaugh assaulted her while they were all two high school students.

"You saw what happened on Friday as well, we had excellent job figures, but we also had something else: the accuser of Brett Kavanaugh, a quality man, the accuser admitted that she had never met her, she had never seen him, he never touched her, she spoke to him, he was n & # 39; It has nothing to do with it – she invented history, "Trump said.

"It was false accusations, it was a scam, it was wrong, it was all wrong," he continued angrily, as the crowd began to sing, "lock it."

The president also suggested investigators to "watch the rest of them" because Kavanaugh "suffered" as a result of the charges.

Because Ford was by far the most reported and well known Kavanaugh accuser, Trump's language could easily have been mistaken for the term "she". But it was actually referring to a charge that had received relatively little attention from the media.

At a rally in Indiana earlier on Monday, Trump gave a little more context, claiming that "one of Kavanaugh's accusers, as opposed to the accuser" , it was retracted.

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On Friday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, referred Judy Munro-Leighton to the FBI for questioning after taking responsibility for a letter from "Jane Doe" received by Senator Kamala Harris , D-Calif. Accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

According to a report released last week by the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee, Munro-Leighton told investigators on Thursday that she was not actually Jane Doe and that she had claimed that "no one is doing it." she "had to attract attention". She said that she had never met Kavanaugh.

Grassley has referred two other Kavanaugh accusers to the Department of Justice for alleged misrepresentation and obstruction.

But Ford and Deborah Ramirez, who allege that Kavanaugh exposed herself to her at a party at Yale University, did not give up their stories and the true author of the allegations in the letter "Jane Doe" remains unknown.

In addition to immigration and the economy, Trump has made charges of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh a central element of his final argument towards the mid-term.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said attempts to derail Kavanaugh's confirmation "ignited" the Republican base. The Democrats, on the other hand, believe that the # MeToo movement and the outrage over Kavanaugh being confirmed despite the charges against him will mobilize their own constituents.

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