In an interview Wednesday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway (pictured above) defended President Donald Trump’s criticism of Christine Blasey Ford’s “factual inconsistencies” in her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

“At the same time, the president is pointing out factual inconsistencies. By Ford’s own testimony, there are gaps in her memory,” Conway said. “There are facts that she cannot remember — how she got home, how she got there, where the house was, what the date was.”

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“If those who are pretending that they want to find the truth don’t fess up and say, ‘But we can’t find the truth when she doesn’t know all the facts’ — that is part of the testimony that she put in under sworn statements,” Conway added.

Trump was criticized by liberal journalists, Democrats, and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) after his remarks delivered during a rally in Mississippi Tuesday, in which he criticized the gaps in Ford’s sexual assault allegations.

“Thirty-six years ago, this happened,” Trump said as he referred to the high school gathering in suburban Maryland in 1982, when Ford claims Kavanaugh assaulted her when both were high schoolers.

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“‘How did you get home?'” Trump said as he imitated Ford’s testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. “‘I don’t remember.’ ‘How’d you get there?’ ‘I don’t remember.’ ‘Where is the place?’ I don’t remember.’ ‘How many years ago was it?’ ‘I don’t know.'”

“‘What neighborhood was it in?'” Trump added. “‘I don’t know.’ ‘Where’s the house?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Upstairs, downstairs, where was it?’ ‘I don’t know, but I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.'”

But Conway rebuked Trump’s critics for refusing to scrutinize Ford’s testimony for inconsistencies while jumping all over Kavanaugh’s testimony, in which he denied the allegations.

Conway also criticized “screaming and dreaming” Democrats — who are weaponizing, she said, the #MeToo movement’s highlighting women’s accusations of sexual misconduct, but “only if the victims of the #MeToo movement are Democrats.”

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“There are many different satellites floating around the core issue here, which is: Should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court as the nominee?” Conway said.

“There are many different satellites floating around the core issue here, which is: Should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court as the nominee?”

Conway also highlighted Trump’s Thursday tweet following Kavanaugh’s testimony, saying, “If you look at the president’s tweet after Judge Kavanaugh testified, he got over 300,000 likes within 24 hours. That’s a lot of likes for a presidential tweet, and your own prime-time lineup on that same night, Thursday, following the historic testimony — you had 5.3 million viewers in your prime-time lineup,” Conway said.

“But it tells me that the president focusing on the Supreme Court and that folks who care about the Supreme Court are very focused on what happens here … many are disgusted with the process, as you know,” Conway insisted.

Trump had tweeted, “Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!”

After appearing on Fox News, Conway answered a question from a reporter at the White House regarding whether it was appropriate for Trump to “mock” Ford.

“I see that is the lemming-like word you’re all using together here, but let’s be fair,” Conway retorted. “She’s been treated like a Fabergé egg by all of us, beginning with me and Trump.”

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“Do you have corroboration for her claims? Can you fill in her memory gaps, her factual inconsistencies?” Conway asked.

Ford became the first woman publicly to accuse Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. Two other women, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick, came forward in the days following Ford’s September 16 accusation. All of their allegations are largely uncorroborated, and Kavanaugh has flatly denied the accusations.

Although the retiring Flake declared his support for Kavanaugh early on Friday, he succumbed to pressure from Democrats on the committee who were calling for an FBI investigation to delay the confirmation indefinitely.

Flake ultimately voted for moving the nomination to the full Senate on the condition that GOP leaders agree to a one-week delay for the FBI to conduct its “limited” investigation into the allegations.

Kavanaugh, who has already undergone six FBI background investigations during his decades of public service, agreed to participate fully.