Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump deviated from his previously measured comments about the woman who has accused his Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when he questioned Thursday why the woman didn't call the police 36 years ago, when she says the incident happened. 
 
 "Why didn't somebody call the FBI 36 years ago? I mean you could also say when did this all happen, what's going on? To take a man like this and besmirch -- now with that being said, let her have her say and let's see how it all works out," Trump said during an interview on Fox News just before his rally in Las Vegas. 
 
 "I think it's a very sad situation. He's an outstanding person," Trump added. 
 
 Professor Christine Blasey Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party outside Washington when they were in high school. He denies it happened. 
 
 Trump had previously stayed above the political fight and heated rhetoric that have surfaced after Ford came forward in a Sunday story in The Washington Post. CNN reported earlier Thursday that Trump has bragged about the positive coverage he's received for his handling of Kavanaugh's accuser, according to multiple sources. That response has contributed to him continuing to say Ford should come forward with her story. 
 
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 Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter. I go through this with them every single day in D.C. 

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– President Trump has largely held his tongue in defense of Brett Kavanaugh, but he is now challenging the account of accuser Christine Blasey Ford and questioning why she didn't come forward much sooner with her allegation of sexual misconduct. "I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents," Trump tweeted Friday morning. "I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!" The tweet follows an interview with Fox News in which Trump made a similar point, reports CNN. "Why didn't somebody call the FBI 36 years ago?" Trump asked in the Fox interview. "I mean you could also say when did this all happen, what's going on? To take a man like this and besmirch—now with that being said, let her have her say and let's see how it all works out." In another tweet Friday, Trump described Kavanaugh as a "fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay." As things stand now, Kavanaugh is expected to testify Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ford is negotiating to appear later in the week, perhaps Thursday. (Did Kavanaugh favor "a look" for his clerks?)