Look for candidate JD Vance to come out swinging at Tuesday’s vice presidential debate against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Odds are good that Vance will go for the Trumpian emotional trifecta: playing the victim, spewing anger, and attacking women and immigrants.

While not everyone is charmed by righteous rage, Donald Trump is the “audience of one” who needs to hear his chosen candidate mimic the boss. There’s precedent for this behavior from fellow Yale Law School graduate, Brett Kavanaugh.

Let’s travel back to 2018 when then-president Donald Trump nominated then-DC Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. All went smoothly until Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. This was not the only accusation of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, all of which he denied.

Fortunately for Squee’s best buddy, a little sexual assault–denied or even not– never bothered Trump. The president stood by his appointee and the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled an additional hearing to hear the new testimony. But first, Kavanaugh appealed to the court of MAGA public opinion. He and his wife joined interviewer Martha McCallum on Fox News for one of the cringiest interviews ever.

Brett Kavanaugh’s angry denials of sexual assault, which included blaming the Clintons, are likely to be a template for JD Vance as he debates Tim Walz.

As part of the denial of sexual assault, Kavanaugh decided to let the world know that he had remained a virgin........

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