President Donald Trump piled pressure on the woman accusing his Supreme Court pick of sex assault when they were teenagers, saying Wednesday it would be “unfortunate” if she doesn’t testify before the Senate next week — as she now appears reluctant to do.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh leaves his home September 19, 2018 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Kavanaugh is scheduled to appear again before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Monday following allegations that have endangered his appointment to the Supreme Court.



Trump’s comments essentially amounted to telling Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychology professor at the center of his presidency’s newest firestorm: put up or shut up.

“If she shows up and makes a credible showing, that will be very interesting and we’ll have to make a decision,” Trump said.



Until last week, Judge Brett Kavanaugh looked almost certain to win confirmation in the Senate in a victory for Trump that would potentially tilt the Supreme Court to conservative rulings for decades to come.

Then came the explosive claim by Ford that a drunken Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when he was 17 and she was 15.

Trump and his Republican Party have been careful to express readiness to give the judge’s accuser a fair hearing.

But with Ford reportedly now reluctant to face a grilling scheduled for Monday in the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, Trump’s allies are asking whether Kavanaugh’s confirmation can be justifiably delayed further.

“We continue to give her a lot of time. We’ve held up the whole hearing,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
He said that “if she does not show up it would be unfortunate.”

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