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Trump Rips Feinstein For Delay On Kavanaugh Letter

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Saagar Enjeti White House Correspondent
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President Donald Trump criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s handling of the high-school-era sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

“What I don’t like is that Sen. Feinstein had this letter for a period of, like, three months from July. Maybe even before that. But from July. Why didn’t Sen. Feinstein bring this up at her meeting with Judge Kavanaugh?” Trump asked during a press pool Tuesday. “Why didn’t the Democrats — they knew about the letter. She was showing it to Democrats. Why did they wait until everything was finished and then bring it up? That doesn’t look good.”

Feinstein has come under intense criticism since Kavanaugh’s accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, surfaced on-the-record in The Washington Post. Ford detailed to TheWP how she sent an anonymous letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein regarding the alleged encounter months earlier. Feinstein said she forwarded Ford’s letter to the FBI for review but never made the allegations public until stories began to surface around the letter itself after Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings ended.

Trump and other top Republicans have accused Feinstein of surfacing Ford’s letter only after the confirmation hearings were over in order to derail the nomination.