President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to cast renewed doubt on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by pointing to the recantation of one little-known accuser. The woman, Judy Munro-Leighton, falsely claimed to have authored a “Jane Doe” letter stating that Kavanaugh and a friend raped her “several times” in the back seat of a car, which the judge denies. The true author of the letter remains unknown, and the claim was not widely reported on during the September confirmation hearings. “A vicious accuser of Justice Kavanaugh has just admitted that she was lying, her story was totally made up, or FAKE!” Trump said in a tweet after initially misspelling the judge’s name. “Can you imagine if he didn’t become a Justice of the Supreme Court because of her disgusting False Statements,” the president continued.

Source: Huffington Post November 03, 2018 15:45 UTC