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Hillary Clinton Laughs at Kavanaugh’s Left-Wing-Conspiracy Claim

In her first public comments on the Supreme Court nominee’s testimony, she swatted away his remark about “the Clintons” and criticized his temperament.  
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In his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denounced the sexual-assault and misconduct allegations against him as part of a left-wing conspiracy orchestrated “on behalf of the Clintons.”

On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton offered her response: a deep belly laugh.

“I mean, editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, at The Atlantic Festival. “It deserves a lot of laughter.”

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