Feinstein releases cryptic statement about Brett Kavanaugh nomination amid intrigue over secret letter

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She's a liar. And Avenatti is a scumbag.

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She's a liar. And Avenatti is a scumbag.

I wanna hear more about these school parties

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I wanna hear more about these school parties

I'm sure they'll make more shit up to get you off.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

She's a liar. And Avenatti is a scumbag.

#BelieveAllWomen
#RapeCulture
#SmashThePatriarchy
#MeToo

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Kavanaugh's friends, people that knew him in high school, men and women, are all coming out and saying that all of these allegations are complete and utter bullshit.

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I'm sure they'll make more shit up to get you off.

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By Gregg Re | Fox News




As an extraordinary series of uncorroborated, lurid last-minute allegations threatens to derail his confirmation to the Supreme Court, nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Ford, the California professor accusing him of sexually assaulting her more than three decades ago, are set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning.

The proceedings may be upended by late-breaking developments: In a statement released Wednesday evening, Judiciary Committee Republicans revealed that on Monday, they conducted their "first interview with a man who believes he, not Judge Kavanaugh, had the encounter with Dr. Ford in 1982 that is the basis of his [sic] complaint." They conducted a second interview the next day.

On Wednesday, Republicans said in the statement, they received a "more in-depth written statement from the man interviewed twice previously who believes he, not Judge Kavanuagh, had the encounter in question with Dr. Ford." GOP investigators also spoke on the phone with another man making a similar claim.

Ford has previously said there is "zero chance" she would have confused Kavanaugh for anyone else.

In response, an aide to Democrats on the Judiciary Committee reportedly unloaded on Senate Republicans: "Republicans are flailing," the aide said, according to NBC News. "They are desperately trying to muddy the waters. ... Twelve hours before the hearing they suggest two anonymous men claimed to have assaulted her. Democrats were never informed of these assertions in interviews, in violation of Senate rules."

The aide, before again calling for an FBI probe into Ford's accusations, added, "This is shameful and the height of irresponsibility."

But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, shot back on Twitter late Wednesday, writing, "Some might find it exceedingly difficult to imagine Judiciary Committee Democrats expressing this complaint with straight faces."

Ford first brought her allegations to the attention of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in July, but Feinstein didn't disclose the allegations to her Senate colleagues or federal authorities until days before a crucial Judiciary Committee vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation earlier this month. Republicans have accused Feinstein's office of compromising Ford's anonymity by sitting on the allegations until she could deploy them for maximum political gain.

The stakes for Kavanaugh could not be higher: Key swing-vote senators have said Thursday's hearing, which will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET, presents a pivotal opportunity to assess Ford's credibility and determine whether to advance Kavanaugh to the nation's highest court.

The hearing, which for days had been in doubt, will be a chance for the public to see Ford, in person, explain in detail what she claims happened at the Maryland house party in 1982 where Kavanaugh allegedly jumped on top of her and tried to muffle her screams -- and why she didn't tell anyone about the episode until 2012.

The proceedings will commence with opening statements from Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking committee member Feinstein. After taking an oath, Ford will deliver the prepared remarks she has already provided publicly, according to a schedule provided by the committee. Each senator on the committee will then be afforded a single five-minute round of questions, with the opportunity to ask questions alternating between Democrats and Republicans.

Republicans have retained Rachel Mitchell, an experienced sex-crimes prosecutor, to handle some of their questioning, saying it will help avoid an overtly political atmosphere. Grassley has hammered Democrats, including Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., for "grandstanding" during the confirmation hearings earlier this month.

Democrats have indicated they intend to ask their own questions. After Ford's testimony is completed, the process will repeat for Kavanaugh.

In her prepared remarks, which Ford's attorney's released in advance on Wednesday, Ford will tell senators that she "thought that Brett [Kavanaugh] was accidentally going to kill me," and "I believed he was going to rape me."

She will explain that she remembers "four boys" being at the party, including one "whose name I cannot recall." The people she did name -- Kavanaugh and his classmates Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth -- have denied under penalty of felony knowing anything about the alleged episode.

Ford will also describe one girl, "my friend Leland Ingham," as also in attendance. Ingham, in a previously released statement, has also denied knowing Kavanaugh or having information about the alleged assault.

Ford's letter to Feinstein in July, however, gave a different tally, saying that the gathering "included me and 4 others."

Additionally, in a handwritten statement she provided the former FBI agent who administered her polygraph exam in August, Ford wrote "there were 4 boys and a couple of girls" at the party -- again apparently contradicting her letter to Feinstein.

Republicans, through Mitchell, are expected to question Ford on the apparent discrepancies.

Ford is also expected to tell senators that she finally decided to disclose the alleged assault during a therapy session in 2012 because during a remodeling of her house that year, she insisted on installing a "second front door" -- leaving her husband and others wondering why.

Additionally, questions have surfaced concerning the credibility of some of Kavanaugh's other accusers, who will not be present Thursday because they have not responded to overtures from committee Republicans.

For example, Julie Swetnick, who emerged Wednesday to accuse Kavanaugh of participating in "gang rapes" and rape "trains" in the 1980s, had a restraining order filed against her by an ex-boyfriend, Politico reported.

“Right after I broke up with her, she was threatening my family, threatening my wife and threatening to do harm to my baby at that time,” Richard Vinneccy told Politico. "I know a lot about her. ... She’s not credible at all. Not at all."

Swetnick is represented by anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti, who has refused multiple requests by the Senate Judiciary Committee to interview her in the past week. On Wednesday afternoon, 60 men and women who attended Kavanaugh's high school or sister schools signed a letter saying they had never heard of Swetnick or anything like the overt, systemic gang raping that she described.

According to The Washington Post, both the state of Maryland and the federal government have filed since-resolved liens on her property in recent years for unpaid taxes totalling tens of thousands of dollars. It was not immediately clear exactly how Swetnick, who has held multiple security clearances relating to her work with the government, resolved both liens.

Republicans, including President Trump, have repeatedly pointed out that none of the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh has first-hand corroboration. In The New Yorker on Sunday, former Kavanaugh classmate Deborah Ramirez claimed that Kavanaugh had exposed his penis to her at a party decades ago, even as her close college friend denied ever hearing about the episode and suggested she was making the claim for political reasons.

Ramirez, who also did not immediately respond to GOP Judiciary Committee inquiries, has acknowledged not being sure whether Kavanaugh had assaulted her until last week, after she spent days consulting with her attorney.

Several other allegations emerged this week. On Tuesday, a constituent told the office of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., that in 1985, two "heavily inebriated men" referred to as "Brett and Mark" had sexually assaulted a "close friend" on a boat.

The constituent, whose name was redacted in a document release by the Judiciary Committee but uncovered through tweets cited by the committee, recanted the claim Wednesday night on Twitter -- but several media outlets continued to report the allegations for hours afterwards.

In Twitter posts, the person making the accusation had also evidently advocated removing President Trump from the White House by means of military coup. On Wednesday, a post on the accuser's Twitter account read, "Do everyone who is going crazy about what I had said I have recanted because I have made a mistake and apologize for such mistake."

In a separate case, Kavanaugh was asked by GOP investigators this week specifically about a new claim in a letter received by Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., from an anonymous individual apparently in Denver, alleging that Kavanaugh "shoved" someone up against a wall "very aggressively and sexually" during an outing in front of four witnesses in 1998. Gardner's office received the letter on Sept. 22.

"We're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend," Kavanaugh told committee investigators asking about the alleged episode. "It's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that.

"It's bad -- it's doing damage to the Supreme Court," Kavanaugh added. "It's doing damage to the country. It's doing damage to this process. It's become a total feeding frenzy, you know? Every -- just unbelievable."

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In the end the future of humanity boils down to cunt & cock. #sad

[Teh One Who Knocks]

She's a liar. And Avenatti is a scumbag.

Avenatti Claims He Doesn’t Know When He First Spoke to His Client About New Kavanaugh Allegations
By Jeffrey Cimmino - Washington Free Beacon




Potential 2020 Democratic presidential nominee and Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti said he does not know when he first spoke to his client, Julie Swetnick, about new sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Swetnick claimed she was a victim of a gang rape around 1982, after she graduated high school, and she alleges Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, were "present" there while they were still high schoolers.

She says she "witnessed efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be ‘gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a ‘train' of numerous boys."

Kavanaugh denied the allegations, calling the claims "ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone."

"I don't know who this is and this never happened," Kavanaugh said.

"When did you first hear from Julie Swetnick, before or after Christine Blasey Ford's story was published in the Washington Post two Sundays ago?" CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Avenatti.

"Within the last month," Avenatti responded.

"Within the last month, but after Professor Ford's allegations came out?"

"I don't know, frankly," said Avenatti.

Tapper followed by asking Avenatti about witnesses to Swetnick’s allegations.

"You say that there are two witnesses. Witnesses to what? What can they back up?" Tapper asked.

"Well, there's more than two witnesses," said Avenatti. There were two witnesses to the actual assault involving my client, but there are multiple witnesses that can attest to the balance of the conduct, which is set forth within this declaration. There's many, many witnesses, Jake."

Asked about the identity of the witnesses, Avenatti said "there's a number of men and women that can attest to the facts and circumstances in this declaration, and we're going to provide those witnesses to the FBI as soon as we're contacted."

Tapper pointed out that the FBI is not likely to investigate the allegations against Kavanaugh, and asked Avenatti if he would give CNN the names of the witnesses.

"Well, Jake, CNN and the Jake Tapper show is not the investigatory bodies that pass judgment ultimately on allegation, so we're going to consider what to do with the names of these witnesses, to corroborate these accusations," said Avenatti.

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I was lucky enough to be able to listen to the hearings at work today. I heard all of Dr Ford's hearing and about a little more than half of Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing and here's what I came away with.

I think something did happen to Dr Ford at one time back when she was in high school. She was fairly composed and fairly credible in most of her testimony. My problem is that she says that she's 100% sure it was Judge Kavanaugh that assaulted her, but when it comes to everything else, she's not sure of the details. Not to mention the fact that all of her witnesses that she says were there deny it completely. So while I think she did have something bad happen to her, I don't for a moment think it was Judge Kavanaugh.

Second, I without a doubt believe the Judge in his testimony. He was very believable and he had the evidence (or lack thereof) on his side. He was very passionate in his defense and he didn't let the democrats bully him around no matter how hard they tried (at least up until the point where I couldn't listen any more).

Also, kudos to Senator Lindsey Graham during his portion of the hearing, he ripped the democrats a new one and he was 100% right on everything he said. He was awesome today.

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I concur.