‘Willing to go to the mat’: How Trump and Republicans carried Kavanaugh to the cusp of confirmation
US Senate,Brett Kavanaugh,Politics
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Again and again, President Trump was instructed not to do it. A cadre of advisers, confidants and lawmakers all urged him — implored him, really — not to personally attack the women who had accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
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