Trump falsely says Kavanaugh was 'proven innocent'

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Donald Trump, speaking at a triumphalist White House ceremony, has made the baseless claim that the new supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh was “proven innocent” of allegations of sexual assault...

Trump, often criticised for rubbing salt in national wounds rather than healing them, continued: “What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. Our country, a man or woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.”...

The president added: “And with that, I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent. Thank you. You were.” ...

The judge was found neither guilty nor innocent of allegations brought by research psychologist Dr Christine Blasey Ford that, when he was 17 and she 15 in the 1980s, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her and tried to remove her clothes while putting his hand over her mouth to stop her screams...

Leading conservative personalities such as Laura Ingraham, David Bossie and Matt Schlapp were also present amid the crystal chandeliers and gold curtains of the East Room.

The first lady, Melania Trump, was absent, however. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said: “The first lady regrets that she will not be able to celebrate with the Kavanaugh family on such a special evening, but she has a longstanding prior commitment she was unable to change at the last minute.”

Laurence Tribe‏, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, tweeted: “I pity the Justices who had no realistic option but to attend and serve as props for the partisan display. Only Thomas, clapping with gusto, looked like he was really pleased to be there. The others looked like polite hostages. A grim and tasteless spectacle.”

Who does he think he is, Thanos?

"I snap my finger, and the universe becomes however I want it to be."

If Trump thought he could get away with it, he wouldn't hesitate to eliminate half of the human race.

And we all know which half.

At least Thanos isn't particular about race or religion, which puts him a cut above Trump.