He claims that Democrats have amassed a slander campaign against judicial nominee Brett Kavanaugh. That is another false statement.
Fact 1: A woman came to Diane Feinstein who is ranking member of the Senate Judicial Committee with an allegation of sexual abuse by Brett Kavanaugh when she was a minor and he a seventeen-year-old boy. The accuser has asked for an FBI investigation of her claims as an extension of Kavanaugh's background investigation.
Democrats did not pile on. Senator Feinstein referred the matter to the FBI would not act on the referral without direction from Senator Grassley or the President, apparently. Grassley refused and followed a pattern familiar to women that is to question the integrity of the accuser while presuming the innocence of the accused.
Fact2: A second woman made an accusation that Kavanaugh once exposed himself to her. In both instances, the women alleged Kavanaugh was under the influence of alcohol. She too wants the FBI to investigate as part of an extended background check.
At this point, people opposed to Kavanaugh (many Democrats and women) have observed the third fact.
Fact 3: Kavanaugh apparently lied three times before the committee. The evidence is hidden under the cover of a "confidential label" stamped by Chairman Grassley intended to keep the information from public scrutiny. Senators have leaked the information including Democrat, Corey Booker. Otherwise, the conflict would remain hidden.
True is that Trump and Kavanaugh are liars. True is that Trump is a misogynist. To be determined is the extent to which Kavanaugh is a sexual abuser.
It takes a good man to know one. Trump is not a good man.
"Meanwhile, in a Saturday letter to Grassley released Monday, Ford wrote that her reasoning for coming forward this summer was "first and foremost to be a helpful citizen" as the president considered a shortlist of Supreme Court candidates. She expressed a desire "to testify in a fair setting that won't disrupt families and become a media TV show" and acknowledged the death threats and "disconcerting media intrusion" she faces, including at work. "My goal is to return soon to my workplace, once it is deemed safe for me and importantly, for students," she wrote. "While I am frightened, please know, fear will not hold me back from testifying."
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"White House open to public testimony from Deborah Ramirez, second accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sanders says
ReplyDeleteThe White House is open to the idea of a second accuser of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a television interview Tuesday morning.
Ramirez, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale University, alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a party when both were first-year students. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation."
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