President Trump showered praise on Judge Brett Kavanaugh moments after a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee ended Thursday.

“Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him,” Trump tweeted. “His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting. Democrats’ search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct, and resist. The Senate must vote!”

Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford, who says the judge accosted her at a party as a teen in the 1980s, both testified before the committee for hours Thursday.

Kavanaugh vehemently denied the claims, at points choking up with tears. Ford said she was “100 percent” sure it was Kavanaugh who attacked her.

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