Trump: Brett Kavanaugh is an 'absolute gem' Donald Trump says his supreme court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh is an 'absolute gem' who is being 'treated unfairly by the Democrats who are playing a con-game.' The US president was speaking before a new woman came forward with explosive revelations about Kavanaugh, saying she witnessed sexually abusive behavior by the Supreme Court nominee, and claiming that she was gang-raped at a party he attended in the early 1980s. SOUNDBITES