A new book is revealing that President Trump’s team withheld damaging information on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.

President Trump and his top aides wanted to go down fighting while Kavanaugh didn’t want it to appear as a smear.

According to Fox News:

The book describes a central conundrum for the judge and his advocates, which is that the team “understood that any criticism of Ford would be treated as a smear” and depicted as “victim shaming.”

Although some of those who knew Ford shared details about her behavior in high school and college that were “dramatically at odds with her presentation in the media,” the book says, the Kavanaugh team decided to focus on his record and the damage to his reputation. The book touches on some of those alleged details involving Ford.

The authors are extremely critical of the coverage of the nomination drama, including in the New York Times and Washington Post, and blame in part “the media’s irrational personal dislike of Kavanaugh.”

When talking about some of the other incredibly outlandish allegations made against Kavanaugh:

Hemingway and Severino call the allegations “obviously ridiculous,” saying “no one could have hidden such crimes for decades, much less a man who went on to hold high-profile positions in the White House and then became a judge on the second-most prominent federal court.” Kavanaugh said the charges were from “the Twilight Zone.”

Throughout it all his wife Ashley stayed by his side and being his steady supporter. It is reported that she prayed a lot during the process.