Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she did not give Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh the presumption of innocence when he was accused of sexual assault because not all allegations are “equal.”
“We need to give people an opportunity to tell their story. But then we have a duty to vet it. And just because you’re a survivor doesn't mean that every claim is equal,” Whitmer, a sexual assault survivor, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.
“It means we give them the ability to make their case, and the other side as well, and then make a judgment that is informed,” she continued.
Whitmer, who has been floated as Biden’s possible running mate, said she has considered Tara Reade’s allegations against Biden, as well as the former vice president’s denial, in coming to her conclusion to believe Biden.
“There’s not a pattern that goes into this,” Whitmer said. “And I think that for these reasons, I’m very comfortable that Joe Biden is who he says he is.”
In 2018, when Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were in high school, Whitmer said she believed Ford. In contrast, Ford did not have contemporaneous accounts of the alleged misconduct that Reade has.
Biden and Kavanaugh have both vehemently denied the accusations against them.
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