The reopened FBI investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is “a blessing in disguise,” President Trump said Saturday – insisting he is not contemplating a replacement for his embattled would-be associate justice.

“I don’t need a backup plan,” Trump said. “I think he’s going to be fine.”

“Having the FBI go out and do a thorough investigation, whether it’s three days or seven days, I think it’s going to be less than a week… I actually think it will be a blessing in disguise,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House as he departed for a rally in West Virginia. “It will be a good thing.”

He also hinted that the investigation could expand beyond the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh – which the judge has forcefully denied – and blasted Democrats who, he alleged, made the confidential complaint of Christine Blasey Ford public.

“I think frankly the FBI has a chance to reveal a lot of different things. I’d like to find out who leaked the papers. Was it Sen. Feinstein?” he said, referring to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Certainly her body language was not exactly very good when they asked her that question.”