Whiplash: ABC Now Opposed to Senate GOP Hiring Outside Lawyer for Hearing

Nicholas Fondacaro | September 25, 2018
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It’s truly amazing to witness how fast the liberal narrative changes in a week. Last Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight was deeply frightened by the idea that the 11 Republican men on the Senate Judiciary committee would be asking the questions to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. This Tuesday, they did a complete 180 and were huffing about the panel hiring a female lawyer to ask their questions for Thursday’s scheduled hearing.

Just last week, sensationalist anchor David Muir was concerned about “[h]ow will this accuser be treated [by GOP Senators] if she does testify? But tonight, he was opposed to those Senators rejecting her ridiculous demands:

All of the Republicans on the commit are me and there is word tonight that they've now hired a woman, an attorney, to ask the question them. Dr. Ford had argued those Senators should have to ask her the questions themselves.

Of course, there was no mention that Ford had demanded that she not be sworn in under oath when giving her testimony, which has been seen as a red flag by many.

Towards the top of her report, bitter Congressional correspondent Mary Bruce decried how many of the GOP Senators had made up their minds already. “But even before they hear one word of testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, it's clear many top Republicans have already made up their minds,” she bemoaned.

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