Fox's David Bossie: Kavanaugh sexual assault reports are hurting “future victims of real assaults”
Bossie: “This is a disgusting smear of a very good man”
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From the September 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
DAVID BOSSIE (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, this is a disgusting smear of a very good man, Brett Kavanaugh. And it is really troubling to see on many levels what they're doing to Brett's family and his reputation, but also what they're doing to future victims of real assault. What they are doing is using a political cudgel against a political opponent, but they are having real life impact on future victims. This is a disgusting display by Democrats that I -- I think that we're going to, unfortunately, see repercussions of this forever. Not only in Supreme Court nominations but our politics in general. So it's very disturbing.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): David, it's unfortunate if he is innocent that his reputation is tainted. But, many people are asking now is there enough time between now and the midterms, if he -- if they decide not to vote him in, is there enough time for Republicans to bring in someone new and vote on someone else for the Supreme Court?
BOSSIE: I don't think that that's going to be necessary. I think Brett Kavanaugh is going to acquit himself very well today up against these just unfounded smear tactics by these out-of-touch Democrats. And I think that it's going to be important for our base to wake up and understand what is going on and the ramifications of losing in November, and we had better turn out to the polls because that is going to be the difference between the Trump agenda continuing and ending. It's on election day in the midterms.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Well, there's no question, David. But the other thing is, the base seems to be woken up for the administration, but the base isn't going to be enough. You have to wake up the people that are not as politically involved as us on the couch and you over there in the studio. So, what do you think people on the outside, who aren't going to dive into these stories like we are, what do you think they're thinking right now, who often have sons and daughters?
BOSSIE: That's right, and I have both, and I know many do.
KILMEADE: As do I.
BOSSIE: Yes, and it is very troubling to watch this entire episode. But, I got to tell you that Brett Kavanaugh, just as an example, your average American is looking at these outlandish, just disgusting allegations of gang rape. Look, this man was the number three person in Ken Starr's operation investigating the Monica Lewinsky sexual assaults of Bill Clinton. The Clinton war machine took down every single person in the 1990s who was associated with that investigation, and this never came out? 15 years after his high school finished. After he left high school. Much closer than it is today. And he was involved in the highest sex crime investigation in American modern history, and nothing came out back then. This is ridiculous. They destroyed everybody who was involved in that investigation. The Clinton war machine took no prisoners, and Brett Kavanaugh would have been paid back for this. It is outrageous, there's no truth to it, and I think Brett's going to do very well today, and we're going to have him in the Supreme Court very soon.
Previously:
Fox & Friends gushes over Kavanaugh's Fox News interview: “His whole life is on the line”
Fox & Friends host: “There has to be a vote” on Kavanaugh despite sexual assault allegations