Hillary Clinton Slams Brett Kavanaugh as FBI Investigation Continues

Hillary Clinton was the guest at an “ideas festival” hosted by The Atlantic on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., and she responded to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s claims during his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony last week that the allegations against him were, in part, an orchestrated leftist effort “on behalf of the Clintons” to derail his nomination.

“But I want to start with you just on — on the events of the past week,” Atlantic Editor-in-Chief and event moderator Jeffrey Goldberg said to Clinton. “In his extraordinary presentation in the Senate, Brett Kavanaugh said that the, quote, ‘political hit job,’ end quote, directed at him was being done on behalf of the Clintons, among other people.”

He asked, “Your response?”

Hillary Clinton laughed out loud. “I mean, really. Yes, it deserves a lot of laughter,” she said afterward.

She then joked that such a conspiracy would have taken a lot of work.

“I thought it was just part of the whole — of his very defensive, and unconvincing presentation … and I told someone later, ‘Boy, they give us a lot of credit … Thirty-six years ago we started this against him,'” she said sarcastically, ostensibly referring to the assault accusations against Kavanaugh having allegedly occurred in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh has a professional history with the Clintons, as the Huffington Post and others have noted; he was a member of the special counsel team whose investigations led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the late 1990s.

“But I think, for anyone who believes there’s such a thing as a judicial temperament and that we want judges, particularly those on our highest court, to approach issues, approach plaintiffs and defendants with a sense of fairness, that there’s a lot to be concerned about,” said Clinton of Kavanaugh.

Hillary Clinton also termed Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee as “very credible,” asking, “Why would anybody put themselves through this if they did not believe that they had important information to convey to the Senate?”

She also put down Kavanaugh again for an approach that she found “out of bounds” and quipped that she made her comments “as someone who has testified under difficult circumstances.”

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“You never were so emotional,” Goldberg fawned.

“Look, for 11 hours, you couldn’t have been,” Clinton said, referring to her own 2015 appearance before a House committee regarding the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the lives of four Americans.

That was the instance in which the then-secretary of state infamously said, “What difference does it make?” in regard to the genesis of the attack.

“There is such a thing that you seek in judges of a judicious temperament,” Clinton also opined about Kavanaugh.

During the interview, Goldberg also asked Clinton whether President Donald Trump should be considered a racist.

“I think he has thrown his lot in with many people and groups whose stated objective is white nationalism, white supremacy,” she said.

She then cited his response to the deadly violence that erupted at last year’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, “as one of the most troubling episodes of this presidency.”

“What he’s doing is broader,” she added, when asked again whether Trump is racist.

“He has been racist, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-LGBTQ. There’s a long list.”

See Clinton’s comments in the video below.