Trump Tweets Defense of Brett Kavanaugh After New Allegation (2)

President Donald Trump defended Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday after the New York Times reported fresh revelations about the Supreme Court justice’s alleged behavior as a student at <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/6047Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000016d-364e-d433-a3ef-f77ea3bc0002","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Yale University in the 1980s.

“Such lies about him,” Trump said of the newspaper’s report in two early-morning Twitter messages. “Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.”

The Times wrote Saturday about lewd behavior attributed to Kavanaugh while at Yale, including more details of an alleged incident that had come to light during his 2018 confirmation process and a second alleged incident of ...