Laura Ingraham Defends Cory Booker From Anonymous Assault Allegation: ‘I Believe It Is a Smear’

On Monday night, Laura Ingraham came to the defense of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) over an anonymous sexual assault allegation made against him.

Over the weekend, an accuser wrote a letter alleging that Booker forced him into a restroom in 2014 and assaulted him.

Well, after using some of Booker’s own words about how all accusers of sexual assault should be believed like the ones made about Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Ingraham showed hesitancy to jump to conclusions.

“We don’t raise this issue because we automatically assume it has credibility,” Ingraham told her viewers. “I don’t like anonymous allegations. We actually think everyone should wait for the details to come in before we say something like this, right?”

The Fox News host told her panel that they ” don’t lend much if any credence” to anonymous accusations without more details, adding that “if you’re going to make an allegation like this, you have to put your name to it.”

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell told Ingraham he was willing to give this accuser “free representation” because he doesn’t believe it. Meanwhile, conservative commentator Monica Crowley said by Booker’s “own standards” that he should be investigated for the allegation made against him.

She then linked this accusation to the “ridiculous” anonymous accusations made against Kavanaugh.

“I don’t like it when people

do this kind of stuff,” Ingraham said. “I believe it is a smear. I mean, if you’re going to make an accusation — this is a supposedly a man making an accusation that something happened in a bathroom- if you’re going to make that kind of accusation you better put your name to it. Our point is a simple one. We have major media outlets during Kavanaugh rolling when this anonymous stuff and people like Cory Booker out there tarring Brett Kavanaugh because of the mountain of evidence, which ended up being nothing.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.