Chelsea Clinton Defends Kavanaugh's Girls After Caricature Shocked Back

Last week, a political cartoon depicting one of Brett Kavanaugh's children sparked outrage from critics who claimed that minor children should be exempted from public mockery resulting from life or acts of their children. parents. Chelsea Clinton, who defended Kavanaugh's daughters in a tweet posted Wednesday afternoon, is one of those people.

"Please leave Judge Kavanaugh's daughters alone"Chelsea wrote." They are not part of your drawings, "jokes", or sketches. If you can not make your point about Judge Kavanaugh, anyway, without intimidating his children, it's not worth it. "

The caricature, which is clearly critical of SCOTUS, is based on opening statements made last Thursday at a hearing on the first of three allegations of sexual assault against him. denied. During the hearing, Kavanaugh said that his daughter had suggested they pray as a family for the first woman who accused her, Christine Blasey Ford.

Chris Britt, the cartoonist behind the picture, illustrated one of Kavanaugh's girls during a bedtime prayer. The caption reads: "Kavanaugh's daughter recites another prayer." The bubble above the little girl's head then shows that she asks God to forgive his father's anger, his drinking and "to have sexually assaulted Dr. Ford" . (Kavanaugh repeatedly denied Ford's allegation, saying, "I have never done anything similar to what the accuser describes – for her or for anyone.") He also describes Kavanaugh as a liar.

The reaction against the cartoon was fast and fierce, according to The Washington Post. Britt said that he had even received death threats.

Chelsea has long defended children whose parents have careers in political or adjacent fields. She has sometimes defended Barron Trump, the youngest son of the president, for example.

"It's high time that the media and everyone leave Barron Trump alone and allow him to have private childhood that he deserves," she wrote after one writer criticized the clothes that he had worn someday. Barron was only 10 years old when his father took office.

She came to Barron's defense several times. "I've repeated it many times and I will continue to say that Barron should enjoy the right, the space and the privacy that would allow him to be a child," she tweeted in April 2017.

Chelsea, of course, is no stranger to very visible and very political parents, having lived in the White House while his father was president in the 90s. Even though his parents would have done all that was in his To be able to protect her from excessive media attention while still a child, some visibility is inevitable when your father's job is in the United States of America.

Whereas, Washington Post After her teens, she occasionally attended major political events. She also liked doing a lot of normal things – going to school or the church, for example – in relative privacy. Her penchant for standing up to people who unintentionally attract minors into the spotlight suggests that she wishes and believes that other children have the right to live the same experience.

Disclosure: Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton's husband, joined Social Capital, an investor in Bustle Digital Group, in mid-2017 and joined Bustle Digital Group's board of directors in early 2018.