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Hirono fundraises off Kavanaugh, ‘he knows he is guilty’

By Paul Bedard
Published September 23, 2018 9:41pm ET
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Hirono fundraises off Kavanaugh, ‘he knows he is guilty’
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is applauded by demonstrators as she arrives to speak to reporters in support of professor Christine Blasey Ford. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The senator leading the fight against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is fundraising off her notoriety, and in her bid for up to $1,500 claimed that the federal appeals court judge is not backing calls for an investigation into a charge of sex harassment against him because “he knows he is guilty.”

In a long memo for the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii writes:

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