Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday it's "worth checking" out statements made by the attorney who represented Christine Blasey Ford during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's hearings, after she claimed Ford was motivated to testify that he'd molested her in high school in order to put an "asterisk" on his reputation before he rules on abortion cases.
"First off, there is no asterisk next to Brett Kavanaugh," the North Carolina Republican, who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Kavanaugh proceedings, told Fox News' "Outnumbered Overtime." "Many of us left the committee thinking that maybe Ms. Ford experienced something, but it had nothing to do with Brett Kavanaugh. That does seem to undermine what we all believed was a legitimate traumatic experience in her life."
Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted a video showing the attorney, Debra Katz, making the comments during a feminist conference at the University of Baltimore in April.
"We will just let the process play out," Tillis said. "Clearly, a misrepresentation before a Senate committee is a very serious offense. Hopefully, we can get past that."
Tillis, meanwhile, said his main focus in recent days has been his state bracing for Hurricane Dorian, which could make landfall.
"Let me just say, for anyone who is in an area that can still get out, get out," said Tillis. "You may think you are high and dry are not subject to floods, but you can't know where lighting is going to strike. You can't know where tornadoes are going to hit."
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