In an wide-ranging, combative rally Monday night in Tennesee, President Trump, in no uncertain personal terms, derided Democrats as shameless hypocrites for questioning the integrity of his embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Blumenthal had said last week that Trump's initial reluctance to order the now-ongoing supplemental background probe of Kavanaugh was "tantamount to a cover-up." He quizzed Kavanaugh during Thursday's hearing on everything from the high court nominee's high school yearbook entries to his drinking habits. "For 15 years as the attorney general of Connecticut, he went around telling war stories," Trump told the crowd. Trump won Tennessee by 26 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, and he remains popular in the Volunteer State.

Source: Fox News October 02, 2018 00:28 UTC