The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received 4,500 tips about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and sent thousands of tips to Donald Trump’s White House, who then decided whom the FBI could interview in their probe.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that the bureau’s 2018 investigation into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh was a sham.
The FBI sent all relevant tips to the Trump administration.
There were a whopping 4,500 tips.
From there, Trump’s team decided whom the FBI could interview as part of its sexual misconduct investigation into Kavanaugh before he was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
It shows that Trump anted Kavanaugh confirmed and was easily able to make sure that there was no corroborating evidence that could potentially harm this. This includes any evidence surfacing that would bolster Christine Blakey Ford’s testimony that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her at a party when they were teenagers.
For years since Kavanaugh was confirmed, lawmakers and the public have sought answers about the FBI’s treatment of information submitted through the tip line.
Sen. Whitehouse has previously said that it was obvious the investigation into Kavanaugh was fully rigged by Trump.
This new information only confirms this.
“This long-delayed answer confirms how badly we were spun by Director Wray and the FBI in the Kavanaugh background investigation and hearing,” Sen. Whitehouse wrote on Twitter.
During the committee hearing, Sen. Whitehouse pressed Wray on whether the Kavanaugh-related tips were separated from regular tip-line traffic and then forwarded to the White House counsel without investigation.
“When the hundreds of calls started coming in, we gathered those up, reviewed them, and provided them to the White House —“ Wray said.
“Without investigation?” Whitehouse asked.
After. Along pause, Wray said, “We reviewed them and then provided them to—“
“You reviewed them for purposes of separating them from tip-line traffic, but did not further investigate the ones that related to Kavanaugh, correct?” Whitehouse asked.
Wray confirmed and said that was correct.
Whitehouse then asked as well if in the supplemental background investigation, “the FBI took direction from the White House as to whom the FBI would question, and even what questions the FBI could ask?”
Wray said that was correct.
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