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appalachiablue

(41,132 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 09:28 PM Sep 2018

Kavanaugh Denies Two Additional Accusations To Senate Judiciary Committee

Source: CNN

By Eli Watkins, 26 mins. ago.

Republican investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new allegations against him, according to a transcript of a conference call released by the committee. In the transcript released Wednesday, Kavanaugh denied an allegation that he assaulted a woman he was dating in 1998 while working for independent counsel Ken Starr that investigators said stemmed from an anonymous complaint sent to Colorado GOP Sen. Cory Gardner.

"No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend," Kavanaugh said. "It's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that."

Kavanaugh then was asked about, and categorically denied, an allegation made by a Rhode Island man -- whose name was redacted from the transcript -- raised in a call to Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's office "concerning a rape on a boat in August of 1985." Kavanaugh has denied three other allegations against him, all involving women who have come forward publicly.

At one point, far along into the call, Kavanaugh said he was facing a "smear campaign" and suggested newly revealed allegations were "just absurd and outrageous, coordinated perhaps."...More...


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kavanaugh-denies-two-additional-accusations-to-senate-judiciary-committee/ar-AAAHaGG



The letter sent to Gardner accused Kavanaugh of violent behavior while under the influence of alcohol during his time working for the investigation led by Starr into then-President Bill Clinton. The complainant said the writer's daughter and several friends were with Kavanaugh in 1998 when Kavanaugh assaulted a woman he was dating, who was a friend of the person's daughter...

*Rhode Island: The second allegation, raised by Whitehouse, alleges that in 1985 "a close acquaintance of the constituent was sexually assaulted by two heavily inebriated men she referred to at the time as Brett and Mark." The incident allegedly took place on a boat in the Newport harbor. Kavanaugh denied being in Newport or on a boat or on a boat with Mark Judge.
The report as read said when the man learned of the assault, "he and another individual went to the harbor, located the boat the victim had described and physically confronted the two men, leaving them with significant injuries."
The report said the caller contacted Whitehouse's office the morning of September 24, 2018, after he saw Kavanaugh's high school yearbook photo on television and realized one of those men was Kavanaugh...
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> Where is Mark Judge, still out of town in Bethany Beach, Del. reading comic books, with the hearing set for tomorrow morning?

'Kavanaugh Character Witness Mark Judge Has Extremely Disturbing Views About Women (and Black and Gay People),' Media Matters, Sept.17, 2018.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/17/brett-kavanaugh-s-character-witness-mark-judge-has-extremely-disturbing-views-about-women-and-black/221339

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Kavanaugh Denies Two Additional Accusations To Senate Judiciary Committee (Original Post) appalachiablue Sep 2018 OP
DeNile - Trump's favorite river in Africa...and now Kavanaugh's. n/t CincyDem Sep 2018 #1
He will probably have to continue denying as more accusations are revealed. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #2
And to think Al resigned over "less." pangaia Sep 2018 #3
So we have the following: (alleged) Botany Sep 2018 #4
"What about his career, family?"!! You got all of it, so far. Sickening. appalachiablue Sep 2018 #5
that makles a total of 5 accusations. trueblue2007 Sep 2018 #6
So a man mentions a 'boat rape' Demsrule86 Sep 2018 #7

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
3. And to think Al resigned over "less."
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 09:38 PM
Sep 2018

And many democrats asked or wanted or told him to.

These republican fuckers are evil incarnate....


Botany

(70,504 posts)
4. So we have the following: (alleged)
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 09:51 PM
Sep 2018

Sexual assault on a 15 year old girl

pushing his dick against the face of a coed @ Yale

drugging and raping women @ high school parties

throwing a woman against a wall outside a Georgetown bar in 1998

and now a rape on a boat in 1985?

appalachiablue

(41,132 posts)
5. "What about his career, family?"!! You got all of it, so far. Sickening.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 09:55 PM
Sep 2018

CNN now running a new ad, "Brett K. is smeared", featuring several women. "Vote Kavanaugh."

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