Public swearing-in ceremony for Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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[h=2]‘There’s no bitterness’: Kavanaugh admits confirmation process ‘tested’ him but insists he will be 'impartial’ after Trump APOLOGIZED for campaign of 'lies' and 'destruction' from Democrats[/h]

• White House officials and Senate Democrats have said they believe Christine Blasey Ford was sexually assaulted – but insist she named the wrong man
• Trump has ratcheted up the rhetoric, claiming Democrats intentionally made up sexual assault claims to torpedo Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination
• He said as he left the White House Monday that Kavanaugh had been 'caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats'
• Then claimed in a speech to police chiefs that the weeks of legal limbo were 'a disgraceful situation brought about by people that are evil'

 

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President Trump hinged his remarks at a public swearing-in ceremony for Justice Brett Kavanaugh with an apology for the way the judge, who was accused of sexual assault by several women, was treated in his confirmation process.
'On behalf of our nation, I would like to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure,' the president stated.
He said Kavanaugh deserved 'a fair and dignified evaluation' not the 'campaign of personal and political destruction based on lies and deception; that he was hit with by Democrats.
'A man or a woman must be presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty,' the president said to applause from supporters and staff. 'You sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent,' Trump declared.
Kavanaugh in remarks told him it was a 'great honor' to be serving on the court. 'I am grateful for your steadfast, unwavering support throughout this process,' he stated.
Addressing the controversy around his appointment, Kavanaugh admitted that it had 'tested' him but he insisted there is 'no bitterness' in the remarks that brought tears to his eyes.
He thanked swing-voting Sens. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, and Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, by name along with other senators whose votes proved critical to putting them on the bench.

 

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President Trump opened his remarks at a public swearing-in ceremony for Justice Brett Kavanaugh with an apology for the way the judge, who was accused of sexual assault by several women, was treated in his confirmation process

 

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Trump noted in his speech that what he was doing was unusual in offering an apology to Kavanaugh

 

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Sitting in the front left section were sitting Supreme Court Justices including Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

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Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, right, ceremonially swears-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as Ashley Kavanaugh holds the Bible while daughters Margaret, left, and Liza, look on

 

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Kavanaugh said his approach to the court remains the same and that he will act as an 'impartial decider' and be perform his duties 'independent' of any political party

 

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Kavanaugh used his remarks to move past the controversy while taking the time to highlight his hiring of four women to clerk on the court and his support for women's equality.
'The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional. That process is over,' he said, promising that his focus is now on being the best justice he can be. 'On the supreme court I will seek to be a force for stability and unity. My goal is to be a great justice for all Americans and for all of America.'
Kavanaugh said his approach to the court remains the same and that he will act as an 'impartial decider' and be perform his duties 'independent' of any political party.
'Although the Senate confirmation process tested me as it has tested others, it did not change me,' he asserted.
The conservative judge pointedly promised to 'interpret the law not make the law' in a nod to the right's continuing concerns about judicial activism.
The entire sitting Supreme Court attended President Donald Trump's public swearing-in ceremony for Kavanaugh on Monday evening, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas and the president's first successful appointment to the court Neil Gorsuch.

 

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VICTORY LAP: the president that the proceedings that led Kavanaugh to be confirmed had proven his innocence in sexual assault charges

 

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Trump paid tribute to Kennedy in his opening remarks, saying America 'owes you a profound debt of gratitude.' Kavanaugh gave offered praise to Kennedy, as well

 

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Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who Kavanaugh is replacing, did the honors.
Trump paid tribute to Kennedy in his opening remarks, saying America 'owes you a profound debt of gratitude.' Kavanaugh gave offered praise to Kennedy, as well.
'I will always be humbled and proud to sit in Justice Kennedy's seat on the Supreme Court,' he stated.
To a packed room of supporters, staff and press, the president in a primetime address called it a 'truly momentous occasion.'
Kavanaugh was officially sworn-in over the weekend so that he could begin studying cases the court will hear this term on Monday morning.
Trump held a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for him at the White House on Monday evening that a who's, who of the conservative movement attended, including Conservative Political Action
Trump claimed earlier on Monday afternoon that the emotionally draining Brett Kavanaugh saga was a 'hoax' perpetrated by 'evil' Senate Democrats involving some intentionally faked claims of sexual assault that were designed to derail the newest Supreme Court justice.
He described Kavanaugh as 'a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats, using the Democrats’ lawyers.'
The president told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House as he left for a speech in Florida that House Democrats are 'thinking about impeaching' the new Supreme Court justice if they take over control of the lower house of Congress next month.
'The American public has seen this charade, has seen this dishonesty by the Democrats,' Trump said.
Hours later in Orlando, Florida, Trump told a convention of police chiefs that the weeks of constitutional limbo that put Kavanaugh's career in jeopardy and mobilized feminist groups 'was a disgraceful situation brought about by people that are evil, and he toughed it out.'

 

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President Donald Trump said Monday that 'evil' Democrats set up a 'hoax' with claims of 1980s-vintage sexual assault in a failed bid to derail Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court

 

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Evil? California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein provided most of the congressional muscle behind efforts to thwart Kavanaugh's rise to the nation's highest court

 

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Justice Kavanaugh (center) joined the Supreme Court on Saturday after a contentious campaign against him that fell short when the Senate voted 50-49 to confirm him

 

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'He's a great person, and it was very, very unfair what happened to him,' Trump said. 'False charges, false accusations, horrible statements that were totally untrue, that he knew nothing about.'
Trump didn't name his devilish opponents, but he has been critical of Senate Democrats and others who brought Kavanaugh's accusers forward and used them as levers of political pressure.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats gave a global platform 11 days ago to Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of forcibly groping her and trying to undress her when they were both teenagers.
Republicans in Washington, most notably females, have said they believe Ford was sexually assaulted in the early 1980s, but also find Kavanaugh's unequivocal denials convincing.
Sen. Susan Collins, whose 'yes' vote turned the tide in Kavanaugh's favor, said Sunday on CNN that 'I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant. I do believe she was assaulted, I don't know by whom, and I'm not certain when. But I do not believe he was the assailant.'

 

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But Monday marked the first time Trump has assigned a motive to Democrats or suggested the claims of any of Kavanaugh's accusers were intentional fiction.
The president had a special level of scorn for Julie Swetnick, a woman who claimed Kavanaugh and his friends spiked teenage girls' drinks to incapacitate them and participated in gang rapes during the 1980s,
'Take a look at the last one,' he said. 'The things they said about him! I don’t even think he ever heard of the word. It was all made up, it was fabricated, and it’s a disgrace.'
Lawyer Michael Avenatti brought Swetnick forward as a client and insists her stories are real. He also represents pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, the woman at the center of a hush-money arrangement related to an alleged sexual affair with the future president a decade ago.
Avenatti is carrying on his own dalliance – with the prospect of running for president in 2020 – but some Republicans believe his attachment to the most implausible allegations against Kavanaugh tainted the more credible ones.

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President Trump said Monday morning as he left the White House that the three women's claims were an intentional 'hoax'

 

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Trump continued defending Kavanaugh on Monday, saying the newly minted justice 'did nothing wrong' and correctly noting that investigations found 'no corroboration of any kind' from witnesses to what Ford, Swetnick and Deborah Ramirez claimed to remember from more than three decades ago.
He predicted during his morning White Hous departure that midterm voters will reward Republican lawmakers who supported Kavanaugh, defying conventional wisdom that suggests Democrats have momentum fueled by resentful protesters.
'I think it’s an insult to the American public,' Trump said of the organized opposition to Kavanaugh. 'And I think you’re going to see a lot of things happen on November 6 that would not have happened before.'