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Trump questions credibility of Kavanaugh accuser, lashes out at Democrats

Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday pointedly questioned the credibility of the woman who has accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers, contending that she or her parents would have reported the attack to law enforcement at the time if it were as bad as she has said.

Trump's tweet marked a sharp break from the days after the accusation first surfaced, during which he refrained from attacking Christine Blasey Ford, a professor in California, and said she deserved to be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr.