Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch said Monday that the woman alleging Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were in high school must be “mistaken” and that even if the claim is true, Kavanaugh is a “good man” and senators should judge who he is now.
“I think she’s mistaken,” Hatch told CNN about Christine Blasey Ford, who has come forward to say Kavanuagh pinned her down and assaulted her nearly four decades ago. “I think she’s mistaking something, but I don’t know, I mean, I don’t know her."
Hatch, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is set to vote on Kavanaugh’s appointment Thursday, said he believes Kavanaugh’s denial that he never attempted to force himself on Ford.