Saturday, October 6, 2018

DID TR UMP ORCHESTRATE KAVANAUGH’S OPENING STATEMENT?

Kavanaugh’s attack on the Democrats had led to a chorus of voices saying he does not have the temperament for a Supreme Court Justice

BarkGrowlBite
October 6, 2018

Judge Kavanaugh’s opening statement at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was an angry rebuke of the Democrats. One cannot blame him since the Democrats had set out to destroy him, and collaterally his family. But his outburst has led many notable voices to proclaim he does not have the temperament for a Supreme Court Justice. And that could have turned some undecided Senators against him. Fortunately it apparently didn’t.

My sister has been a bedrock Republican. She worked on the congressional and presidential campaigns of former President George H. W. Bush. She did not like Kavanaughs angry statement and believes it was orchestrated by Trump or one of his close staff members. She says that Kavanaugh sounded exactly like Trump blasting the Democrats at campaign rallies, and not at all like a sitting appellate court judge. She also thinks Kavenough could have made the same points, but in a dignified manner.

While Trump and his family, his base, and I were delighted in how Kavanaugh scorched the Democrats, in retrospect I believe he would have been better served had he taken a dignified approach.

So did Trump orchestrate Kavanaugh’s opening statement? My sister may be onto something.

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