Sceptics who feared last week’s FBI investigation would be a hollow exercise to secure the votes of two or three wavering Republicans will now feel vindicated. Agents did not talk to Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee who was alleged by three women to have committed acts of sexual misconduct, or to Christine Blasey Ford, his main accuser. Donald Trump, the US president, said the agents could talk to whomever they wished. That assurance turned out to be false.
有懷疑者擔心,上週美國聯邦調查局(FBI)的調查將只是爲贏得兩三個搖擺不定的共和黨人的投票而走的一次過場,現在他們會感到這種擔心得到了證明。特工們沒有與最高法院大法官提名人選布雷特•卡瓦諾(Brett Kavanaugh)——他被三名女性指控存在不當性行爲——或者他的主要原告克里斯廷•布萊西•福特(Christine Blasey Ford)談話。美國總統唐納•川普(Donald Trump)表示,特工可以與他們想要的任何人談話。事實證明這種保證是虛僞的。