The White House on Thursday announced that it has received the FBI’s supplemental background probe into Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and is “fully confident” that he will eventually be confirmed to the Supreme Court, Fox News informed.
Trump ordered the FBI to investigate the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against Kavanaugh by three women. The probe commenced after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman who came forward, testified before the Senate Judiciary last week about her claims against the federal judge.
Raj Shah, the principal deputy press secretary for the White House, said that the FBI report is currently “being transmitted to the Senate.”
“With [Senate Majority] Leader [Mitch] McConnell’s cloture filing, Senators have been given ample time to review this seventh background investigation,” Shah said in a statement posted to Twitter. “This is the last addition to the most comprehensive review of a Supreme Court nominee in history, which includes extensive hearings, multiple committee interviews, over 1,200 questions for the record and over a half million pages of documents.”
Shah said the “White House is fully confident” Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the Supreme Court in the Senate vote.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that the White House had reviewed interview reports from the FBI’s investigation into Kavanaugh and found corroboration of the allegations of sexual misconduct.
Attorneys for Ford slammed the FBI background investigation.
“An FBI supplemental background investigation that did not include an interview of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford — nor the witnesses who corroborate her testimony — cannot be called an investigation,” the statement read. “We are profoundly disappointed that after the tremendous sacrifice she made in coming forward, those directing the FBI investigation were not interested in seeking the truth.”
Ford told the committee that she was “100 percent” certain that Kavanaugh was her attacker. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegations.
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