Trump and Brett Kavanaugh supporter tells daughters men groping women ‘is no big deal’

Groping women is "no big deal", a Donald Trump supporting mother told her daughters on national television when asked about the sexual misconduct allegations levelled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Standing alongside her teenage girls, the unidentified woman replied: “Groping a woman? At 18?”

Turning to her daughters, she then asked: “I mean, how many guys do you know who think that’s no big deal?”

As her daughters appeared to agree with her, she continued: “It’s not a big deal.”

The woman insisted that even if there was some truth to the allegations it “doesn't’t take away from his character and his job to do what he needs to do as a Supreme Court nominee.”

She added, “If he was pro-abortion, the liberals wouldn't’t be fighting this hard.”

After the interview was aired on US cable channel MSNBC and shared on social media, it provoked a strong response.

"Let’s hope that woman also isn’t raising a son who’ll go on to grope a new generation of women & let’s hope her daughters learn enough elsewhere to not continue perpetuating this toxicity," one person tweeted.

Another added: "So her daughters bodies are available to be touched whenever some man feels like it? What about what her daughters want?"

Three women have accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

University professor Christine Blasey Ford accused him of assaulting her at a party in Maryland in the 1980s.

She alleges Judge Kavanaugh tried to drunkenly remove her clothing, pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when she was 15 and he was 17.

In written testimony ahead provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of her personal appearance this week, she said: "Brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. For a very long time, I was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone the details. I tried to convince myself that because Brett did not rape me, I should be able to move on and just pretend that it had never happened."

Judge Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge locked her in a bedroom during a small gathering at a house in Washington DC suburbs in the summer of 1982, she added. "Both Brett and Mark were drunkenly laughing during the attack," she said. Mr Judge has disputed the allegations and said he does not recall the incident.

She said she believed Judge Kavanugh "was going to rape me." The fact that he covered her mouth left her "terrified" her the most, and has had "the most lasting impact".

Julie Swetnick has also claimed the Judge Kavanaugh got teenage girls “inebriated and disoriented" before watching them being “gang raped” in a side room or bedroom by “a train of numerous boys”.

Deborah Ramirez, his former Yale University classmate has also alleged that he once exposed himself to her at a dormitory party in the 1980s.

Judge Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegations and said he was not going “to let false accusations drive us out of this process.”

“We’re talking about allegations of sexual assault. I have never sexually assaulted anyone,” he said in an interview with Fox News. “I did not have sexual intercourse, or anything close to sexual intercourse, in high school or many years thereafter.”