Trump slams new Kavanaugh book by Washington Post journalist

President Trump on Sunday swiped at a new book written by a Washington Post columnist looking at the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

In a tweet, Trump asserted that Ruth Marcus’s book was full of “incorrect facts,” while simultaneously praising a different book on Kavanaugh from Federalist writer Mollie Hemingway.

{mosads}”This is a great and well reseached book on Justice K. The Ruth Marcus book is a badly written & reseached disaster. So many incorrect facts. Fake News, just like the @washingtonpost!” he tweeted.

This is a great and well reseached book on Justice K. The Ruth Marcus book is a badly written & reseached disaster. So many incorrect facts. Fake News, just like the @washingtonpost! https://t.co/i6GwghuEsU

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2019

Hemingway’s book was written in concert with Carrie Severino, an official with the conservative Judicial Crisis Network that heavily supported Kavanaugh and attacked Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearings last year.

Kavanaugh was accused by several women of sexual misconduct during his high school and college years, including Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accused the justice of sexual assault at a high school party. The accusations were largely supported by Democrats and dismissed as not credible by Republicans.

Marcus’s book looked critically at Ford’s testimony and at lobbying efforts led by the White House and Republican-aligned groups to secure the justice’s nomination. It was called “the best” of all books on the subject by veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.

Kavanaugh has largely kept a low profile since his confirmation last year but recently gave a keynote address at a dinner hosted by The Federalist Society, a conservative judicial group.