--- description: The President said the Senate "must vote" on Kavanaugh title: President Trump Tweeted His Love of Brett Kavanaugh's Testimony: 'Powerful, Honest and Riveting' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb55f6e1a8bed063c/69893b60457a52400dd5f803/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-hearing-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Supreme Court](/tag/supreme-court/) ## Supreme Court Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # President Trump Tweeted His Love of Brett Kavanaugh's Testimony: 'Powerful, Honest and Riveting' by [Abigail Abrams](/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 27, 2018 11:59 PM CUT  Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh takes his seat at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Senate Judiciary Committee Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearing, in Washington DC on Sept. 27, 2018. Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh takes his seat at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Senate Judiciary Committee Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearing, in Washington DC on Sept. 27, 2018.REX/Shutterstock—REX/Shutterstock by [Abigail Abrams](/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 27, 2018 11:59 PM CUT After a [full day of testimony](http://time.com/5408177/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testimony/ "undefined") from Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman who accused the judge of sexually assaulting her, President Donald Trump championed his pick. “Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting,” the President [tweeted Thursday evening](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1045444544068812800?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined"). “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!” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1045444544068812800) Ford has accused Kavanaugh of pushing her into a bedroom at a party when they were teenagers and trying to rape her. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied all of her allegations, as well as the allegations made against him by two other women in recent days. Both Ford and Kavanaugh sat through hours of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as an outside prosecutor who Republicans hired to ask questions on Thursday. During her portion of the hearing, Ford spoke emotionally and described her allegations, as well as the trauma she says she has endured, in detail. Kavanaugh [began his testimony](http://time.com/5409283/brett-kavanaugh-opening-statement/ "undefined") with significant anger in his voice and often [appeared defiant](http://time.com/5409176/kavanaugh-apologizes-senator-klobuchar-black-out-drunk/ "undefined") while answering senators’ questions. White House [officials also told TIME](http://time.com/5409098/kavanaugh-testimony-white-house/ "undefined") that they thought Kavanaugh’s performance was “nothing short of spectacular” and would convince Republican senators to vote for him. The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on whether to confirm Kavanaugh for Friday. While Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats have called for the vote to be delayed, Republican committee members have so far refused to move it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5409314/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-testimony/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5409314/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-testimony/"},"headline":"President Trump Tweeted His Love of Brett Kavanaugh's Testimony: 'Powerful, Honest and Riveting'","datePublished":"2018-09-27T23:59:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T11:45:29.284Z","description":"The President said the Senate \"must vote\" on Kavanaugh","url":"https://time.com/5409314/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-testimony/","keywords":["Supreme Court","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb55f6e1a8bed063c/69893b60457a52400dd5f803/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-hearing-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb55f6e1a8bed063c/69893b60457a52400dd5f803/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-hearing-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senate Judiciary Committee Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearing, Washington DC, USA - 27 Sep 2018","caption":"Senate Judiciary Committee Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearing, Washington DC, USA - 27 Sep 2018","creditText":"REX/Shutterstock—REX/Shutterstock","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/supreme-court/","name":"Supreme Court"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5409314/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-testimony/","name":"President Trump Tweeted His Love of Brett Kavanaugh's Testimony: 'Powerful, Honest and Riveting'"}}]}] ```