Epstein sympathized with Brett Kavanaugh over rape allegations: 'I've been through many'

Jeffrey Epstein expressed sympathy for Brett Kavanaugh as he faced sexual assault allegations during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, according to newly released files.

The Justice Department released emails and text messages sent by the late sex offender during Kavanaugh's contentious 2018 confirmation and suggested that Republicans should have been harder on accuser Christine Blasey Ford, reported The Guardian.

“Ive sat in Kavanaugh chair. Im thinking of November," Epstein sent Sept. 22, 2018, to a person whose name was redacted. It's not clear what he meant by his reference to November.

The disgraced financier described the Senate judiciary hearing as “a trap!”, adding “Iye [sic] been through many of these. MANY!! She will cry, make sordid allegations. Say she feels bullied, fearful, traumatized. Every thing bad in her life was s result of the rape attempt. Suffered anxiety! Her relationships with men etc. this is a very special skill set needed.”

Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University, testified that a “visibly drunk” Kavanaugh had groped her and tried to remove her clothes in the summer of 1982, when both of them were teenagers. She told senators that she was sure he intended to rape her before she was able to escape.

Kavanaugh denied her allegations, and the Senate Judiciary Committee's all-male Republican majority appointed a female prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell, to question Ford, which Epstein derided as a mistake.

“Horrible choice of prosecutor woman. critical and maybe lethal mistake. . prosecutors don’t cross examine. they prosecute.. power on their side . she should have been a criminal defense attorney," Epstein wrote to an unidentified person on Sept. 27, 2018.

Epstein listed questions that he thought Ford should have been asked to pierce her credibility, such as whether her family had a "history of anxiety" or how she had escaped the party, and in another message he suggested that she should have been asked how “therapist notes” allegedly differed from her account.

There's no evidence that Kavanaugh knew or had met Epstein, who was a close personal friend of the late Kenneth Starr, under whom Kavanaugh served as an associate during the investigation into Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

Starr helped Epstein reach a controversial plea agreement in 2008 that allowed him to avoid federal sex-trafficking charges and serve a reduced sentence.

Epstein had emailed Starr in July 2018, days before Kavanaugh was officially nominated, that the conservative was his "first choice" to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.