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The most embarrassing moment throughout the entire confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh didn’t even involve him directly. In an obvious case of grandstanding Thursday, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker issued hollow threats about released allegedly confidential e-mails from the nominee, which he said could get him expelled from the Senate. Despite being called out for his presidential ambitions, Booker pompously declared it was his “I am Spartacus moment.”
That jaw-dropping ludicrousness from the Senator won the admiration of ABC correspondent Terry Moran, who spent the first part of his World News Tonight report touting the Senator’s childish antics.
“But then Democratic Senators joining the resistance, drowning out the protesters with their own dramatic stand,” he enthusiastically proclaimed. “Senator Cory Booker, apparently flouting Senate rules by releasing confidential e-mails from Judge Kavanaugh's years inside the George W. Bush White House. One dealing with the issue of racial profiling post-9/11.”
Moran touted how some of Booker’s fellow Democratic Senators backed him up even though they supposedly “facing possible expulsion for breaking Senate rules”. Booker suggested the e-mails were confidential and insinuated they showed a darker side to Kavanaugh. Neither of those things turned out to be true because the documents were released the previous night and they showed no such thing.
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