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Political Cornflakes: President Trump’s self-restraint on Christine Blasey Ford starts to crumble

President Donald Trump is being praised from the right and left for his unusual restraint regarding the besieged Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, with nary an attack on his accuser Christine Blasey Ford. That started to change Friday morning.

Happy Friday. The president in one of his mini-tweet storms demanded Ford bring forward police reports from the time of the alleged assault — saying he knows they exist “if the attack ... was as bad as she says." He also called Kavanaugh a fine man of impeccable reputation who is “under assault by radical left wing politicians.