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Trump HUD Secretary Ben Carson believes the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations are part of a centuries old Socialist plot that began in England with something called the Fabian Society.

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Participants who were in the room have now told Fox News it was a sarcastic crack in the midst of an argument, along the lines of “what do you want me to do, wear a wire?”

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Fri 21 Sep, 2018 09:36 pm
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Truth be told, all you those white girls look alike in Blasey’s yearbook. So I have no way of validating if this is Blasey, though I do plan to ask an expert…another white girl.

She just thought it was important that her situation got out there because I think probably what she intended was that she put it out there that this had happened and that maybe they would investigate that side of his background a little more without her actually having to come forward.

Gunmen have opened fire on an Iranian military parade in the south-western city of Ahvaz, killing at least 24 people including civilians, and injuring more than 50, state media say.

The attackers shot from a park near the parade and were wearing military uniforms, reports say.

Iran's foreign minister said "terrorists" backed by "a foreign regime" were behind the attack.

State media and officials have blamed Sunni militants or Arab nationalists.

Fars news agency said the attack started at 09:00 local time (06:30 BST) and appeared to involve four gunmen.

The attackers fired at civilians and attempted to attack military officials on the podium, Fars reports.

Two of the gunmen were killed by security forces, while the other two were arrested, the local deputy governor, Ali Hosein Hoseinzadeh, said.

Eight members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and a journalist are among those killed, reports say.

No group has said it carried out the attack, which lasted for about 10 minutes.

However, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said: "Iran holds regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable."

Iran has previously accused its regional rival, Saudi Arabia, of supporting separatist activity amongst Iran's Arab minority.

Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, a Republican from the party's most conservative wing, is standing for re-election in November.

Fearing for the future, his siblings have thrown their weight behind their choice of candidate in a powerful new TV advert.

The striking part? It's not their brother.

Nope - six of Mr Gosar's siblings have spoken out to endorse his rival, Democrat David Brill.

If that sounds brutal on paper, the execution is even more savage. To maximise its impact, the ad doesn't name the six speakers until the end - they're just presented as normal Arizona folks.

It opens with "Grace, rural physician", declaring, "Paul Gosar the congressman isn't doing anything to support rural America."

"Paul's absolutely not working for his district," says "David, lawyer".

"If he actually cared about people in rural Arizona, I bet he'd be fighting for social security, for better access to healthcare," agrees "Jennifer, medical interpreter".

"He is not listening to you, and he does not have your best interests at heart," "Tim" agrees - before dropping the bombshell line: "My name is Tim Gosar".

So is this a shock move from David, Tim, Jennifer, Gaston, Joan, and Grace?

Local paper the Arizona Republic calls it "brutal, but not unexpected". Mr Gosar made headlines after the violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, by suggesting it was planned by "the Left" to undermine Donald Trump. He then branded Democratic Party donor George Soros a Nazi collaborator in an interview with Vice News.

Horrified, seven of his siblings signed an open letter to the Kingman Daily Miner, stating: "It is extremely upsetting to have to call you out on this, Paul, but you've forced our hand with your deceit and anti-Semitic dog whistle."

Paul Gosar's other controversies include boycotting a 2015 speech to Congress by Pope Francis. He criticised the pontiff's support for climate change, calling it "questionable science" deployed "to guilt people into leftist policies".

He has also defended British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and attacked "disgusting and depraved" Muslim immigrants at a speech in London in July.

"It would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist," Grace Gosar says in another, according to the Phoenix New Times.

Representative Gosar has not yet responded to the ad campaign. The Republican, who won his district with 71% of the vote in 2016, is still considered likely to keep the seat he has held since 2011.

If there is a bright side for Mr Gosar, it's that he is one of 10 siblings. While seven have denounced him in public, two are keeping their silence so far - which might make Christmas fractionally less awkward.

Further anti-Gosar adverts set to air on TV soon include one titled "A family defends its honor," where David Gosar says: "We've got to stand up for our good name, this is not who we are."

A majority of Yale Law School faculty members are urging the Senate Judiciary Committee not to rush to judgment in considering Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, a graduate of the school, and to treat seriously allegations regarding a past sexual assault.

At 9:13 a.m. on Friday, Kellyanne Conway told reporters that President Trump didn’t need to be advised not to attack Dr. Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her — because he knew it was the wrong thing to do.

“There’s no reason to attack her,” Conway said. “The president doesn’t need anybody to tell him. He does the right thing.”

One minute later, Trump made Conway look like a fool. At 9:14 a.m., the president posted a tweet attacking Ford by suggesting she’s lying about her account of being assaulted at a party in the early 1980s...