Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump and his family, and the claims made about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh are more of that, White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Tuesday.
"First it was Russia, then it was racism, then it was a recession," Gidley told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"They lie about this president consistently and then they try to rope in people in his orbit. This is a constitutional duty of the president of the United States to put forth a United States Supreme Court nominee. It went through the process [and] he was vindicated, he was confirmed, it's time for Democrats to move forward."
Gidley's comments come in the wake of a controversial article in The New York Times' opinion section that initially made claims that Kavanaugh had acted sexually inappropriate during a drunken Yale party back in the 1980s, without stating that the alleged victim in question neither remembered or commented on the claimed incident.
"There is a spot dedicated to those opinions in all of these publications and all of these newscasts, but when they put it in front of the American people as real news it's a disservice to the American people, and it's also an affront to real journalism," said Gidley. "People deserve to listen to the facts and information from their news outlets. Time and time again, that's just not what they are getting."
Freedom of the press is important, Gidley added, but "we should have the opportunity to remind journalists [about] the big responsibility that carries with it."
Sandy Fitzgerald ✉
Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
© 2026 Newsmax. All rights reserved.