Fox's Jeanine Pirro calls Christine Blasey Ford's testimony “a fraud”
Pirro says the FBI didn't need to talk to Ford because “there is nothing else to ask her. There is nothing else that they need to do.”
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From the October 4 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
JEANINE PIRRO (FOX NEWS HOST): Today is a huge day, because now we're in the situation where this woman claims that she was victimized. And I believe her. I think something happened to her. I think she's got some issues --
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Credible witness, the president said.
PIRRO: She is a credible -- she is credible. I did this for 30 years, I tried rape cases, I interviewed victims, I've made decisions as to whether you should go forward. But, I have to tell you, if you don't know the where, when, and how, you don't mention anything for 36 years, I have to ask, was this a repressed memory? Did you go through hypnosis? Was there confabulation here?
But, more importantly, once she made claim that there were other people there, and every one of those so-called witnesses, alibi witnesses denied everything, they just didn't deny knowing anything, they didn't know anything about a party, they didn't know about the date, they didn't know about the address. So it's not a he said she said anymore, it's a they said, and everything they said was not.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): So, if we have the 302s, and they're summaries of interviews, and they reveal no corroboration, leave Debbie Ramirez out of this for a second. The Democrats are already saying, why didn't you talk to Ford again? Why didn't you talk to Kavanaugh again? What does Judge Jeanine think about that decision that evidently came from the White House?
PIRRO: Look, I've done these investigations, they already had the individual who was at the center of the issue questioned under oath --
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): For hours.
PIRRO: By a prosecutor actually, and by senators, Republican and Democrat. There is nothing else to ask her. There is nothing else that they need to do. That is the final person that you go to.
EARHARDT: Have Democrats overplayed their hand here? Is it going to backfire on them in the midterms?
PIRRO: I don't think there's any question it's going to backfire. and I'll tell you something else. For those people who say women are with Christine. Women who were victims are looking at Christine Blasey Ford and saying, you know, I mentioned this, I mentioned that. I didn't wait 36 years. I told a friend, my mother, a college counselor.
This fear of flying, that was a fraud. This whole idea of needing two doors, that was a fraud. Everything -- and why not give --
EARHARDT: The polygraph.
PIRRO: The polygraph, first of all, it's not even admissible in a court of law. And for her boyfriend to say she helped someone work on passing a polygraph who was applying for a job with the DOJ or the FBI, everything is wrong here.
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PIRRO: They're never going to be happy, this is about their attempt to create a paradigm shift so the burden of proof is now not on the prosecutor, but it's on the accused. Presumption of innocence no longer applies. Truth beyond a reasonable doubt, none of this stuff matters to them. When you've got Soros-funded individuals going after senators like Flake, who's such a wimp that he is now, I'm going to vote for Kavanaugh. Oh, no, a woman yelled at me. I can't. I can't. Come on.
KILMEADE: But maybe people think -- some people think he's brave for standing up to his party to give this week out to try to remove --
PIRRO: Yeah, well, if he's brave he got conned. That was a Soros-funded individual who came at him. I think what people need to understand is, just because you have been a victim, and I've dealt with tens of thousands of them for three decades, doesn't mean Brett Kavanaugh did it. Brett Kavanaugh is not the guy who victimized you. And I'm not sure that he victimized anybody. I believed him. I think everything about his temperament, and now the drinking? The guy's been a circuit court judge for twelve years in that fishbowl we call Washington. If this guy has a drinking problem, or is a gang rapist, or a sexual predator, he really pulled back in the last 12 years, hasn't he?
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Previously:
Fox & Friends host: “There has to be a vote” on Kavanaugh despite sexual assault allegations