President Donald Trump called sexual assault allegations that blanketed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination process earlier this month “fiction” and “made-up stuff” during a recent interview with a Nevada radio host.

President Trump made the comments in a brief interview Saturday with conservative talk radio host Kevin Wall after the president’s rally in Elko. Trump said that treatment of Kavanaugh — who was confirmed with 50 “yes” votes after facing accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman in high school — would help energize the Republican Party ahead of the midterm elections next month.

“They’ve become angry, they’ve become bitter. You saw that with the hearings, and actually you saw it with the Neil Gorsuch, Justice Gorsuch hearing. But to an extent that was at least within the bounds of taste,” he said. “This last situation, what they did with Brett Kavanaugh, was just one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. And it was all fiction, made-up stuff. They tried to ruin his life, his family, his kids, he’s got these two beautiful, wonderful daughters, and what they did to him — and I think that’s one of the reasons the Republican Party is so energized.”

“I really believe the way they treated Justice Kavanaugh, while horrible, has really helped the Republican Party.”

Trump had said Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, was a "credible witness" shortly after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Sept. 28 to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Kavanaugh.

But on October 8, he said it was a "hoax set up by the Democrats."

Trump also expanded on his evolving relationship with Republican Sen. Dean Heller, who once said he was “99 percent” against Trump and in 2015 diverted a Trump contribution to his campaign to charity after the candidate characterized illegal immigrants from Mexico as “rapists.”

“I really didn’t know very much about him, other he was known a strong guy, and a smart guy, but I didn’t know him, and he didn’t know me,” Trump said of Heller. “And I think instinctively maybe we didn’t like each other very much, and there was never much of a relationship. And then I got elected and had to start working with senators and others, and Dean was right at the forefront. He was fantastic.”

The president also complained about news media coverage of his administration, and echoed a line about his accomplishments that he made last month to the United Nations General Assembly.

“When you win, you feel a little bit differently,” he said. “And we have done more and completed more than any administration in the first two years.”

This post was updated at 1:08 p.m. with two of Trump's past comments about Ford.