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We used to respect due process in this country. Now it’s hyper-partisan politics and do anything to win. This of course weakens our republic which was designed to protect the individual from the mob.
In short. Kavenaugh is guilty because he’s not a member of our party. Enjoy the witch hunt. He’s been tried in the media and found guilty with no credible evidence or any due process. All I can say is if this is where we want to go, don’t complain when an angry mob says you are guilty and there is no due process to protect you.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Fox News Interview Is Now Testimony Under Oath
Rolling Stone 1 hour 44 minutes ago
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee released transcripts of a private interview with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In his sworn testimony, Kavanaugh denied the explosive sexual allegations brought by Julie Swetnick. “I’ve never participated in a gang rape.” Kavanaugh said. “I’ve never participated in sexual activity with more than one woman present and me. I think — yeah. Just making sure I accurately described that. In other words, I’ve never had a threesome or more than a threesome.” Kavanaugh also flatly denied the allegations brought by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, and Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez, who accused Kavanaugh of exposing his penis to her at a party.
Kavanaugh’s lawyerly parsing of his sexual activity among multiple women was highlighted by Axios. But other news from the transcript has escaped notice. Most consequential: that Fox News interview that Kavanaugh conducted with Martha MacCallum has been entered into evidence as testimony by Kavanaugh — under “penalty of felony,” as the judge might put it. This means that the credibility-straining claims Kavanaugh made on the network could now place him in legal jeopardy.
In the Judiciary Committee transcript, the Fox News interview is placed retroactively under oath. A staffer, whose name is redacted, asks Kavanaugh: “Everything that you said on that interview, do you — do you affirm that today? Do you adopt that as your testimony today?” Kavanaugh replies, “Yes.” The SCOTUS nominee also responds in the affirmative when the questioner asks if Kavanaugh understands that entering his answers to Fox News as testimony means that he is “subject to felony prosecution if you’re lying.”
Reviewing the Fox News transcript, Kavanaugh has now placed the following claims under oath:
His behavior toward women:
Kavanaugh: “I’ve always treated women with dignity and respect.”
His days at Georgetown Prep:
Kavanaugh: “I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all girls Catholic schools…. I was focused on trying to be number one in my class and being captain of the varsity basketball team and doing my service projects, going to church.”
His sexual experiences:
Kavanaugh: “I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter…”
MacCallum: “So you’re saying that through all these years that are in question, you were a virgin?”
Kavanaugh: “That’s correct.”
MacCallum: “Never had sexual intercourse with anyone in high school —”
Kavanaugh: “Correct.”
MacCallum: “— and through what years in college since we’re probing into your personally life here?”
Kavanaugh: “Many years after. I’ll leave it at that. Many years after.”
His drinking habit:
MacCallum: “Was there ever a time that you drank so much that you couldn’t remember what happened the night before?”
Kavanaugh: “No, that never happened.”
MacCallum: “You never said to anyone, ‘I don’t remember anything about last night.’”
Kavanaugh: “No, that did not happen.”
Kavanaugh’s contemporaries have publicly disputed several of these claims. Kavanaugh and other Georgetown Prep classmates wrote in their yearbooks of being a “Renate alumnus.” (Kavanaugh misspelled it as “alumnius.”) The woman they referred to, Renate Schroeder Dolphin, understands the entries as bragging about making her a sexual conquest. “The insinuation is horrible, hurtful and simply untrue,” she told the New York Times. (In his public Senate testimony, Kavanaugh claimed: “That yearbook reference was clumsily intended to show affection, and that she was one of us.”)
Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates also disputed his claim of moderate drinking. His former classmate Liz Swisher told the Washington Post: “Brett was a sloppy drunk, and I know because I drank with him. I watched him drink more than a lot of people. He’d end up slurring his words, stumbling,” she said, adding, “it’s not credible for him to say that he has had no memory lapses in the nights that he drank to excess.”
Another Yale contemporary, Lynne Brookes, also said Kavanaugh’s Fox News interview (now testimony) was laughable. “He’s trying to paint himself as some kind of choir boy,” she told the Post. “You can’t lie your way onto the Supreme Court, and with that statement out, he’s gone too far. It’s about the integrity of that institution.”
Kavanaugh’s freshman year roommate, James Roche, recalled to the New Yorker that Kavanaugh was “frequently, incoherently drunk.” In a new statement, a former Kavanaugh drinking buddy, Chad Luddington, writes he has been “deeply troubled by what has been a blatant mischaracterization by Brett himself of his drinking at Yale.” He added: “On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive.”
Documents released by Judiciary Committee member Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) also cast doubt on Kavanaugh’s truthfulness about drinking and memory. Emails from Kavanaugh’s time in the George W. Bush White House record his participation in a 2001 boy’s weekend on a boat rented from Annapolis, Maryland.
In an email to his friends from his White House account upon returning to work, Kavanaugh thanks his ship-mates for a great adventure but confesses he does not remember everything that happened, while apologizing for his belligerence: “Excellent time,” Kavanaugh writes in a message dated September 10th, 2001. “Apologies to all for missing Friday (good excuse), arriving late Saturday (weak excuse), and growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice (don’t recall).”
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Just wait until we get to when Kavanaugh partied with Van Halen backstage.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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LOL so the sexual assault allegations can't be corroborated... so now it's about his drinking alcohol..? What's next on the fishing expedition..?
The FBI is conducting it's 7th background investigation of Kavanaugh. 7th. Let that sink in.
If there were anything of noteworthy concern with this guy... don't you think it would have surfaced somewhere in the previous 6 FBI background investigations. Note: all of which was presented and reviewed by the Senate Judicial committee that previously confirmed him for the job he holds today..."If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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It's possible FBI only did a cursory check and didn't go that deep. Six times..........sigpic" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLRComment
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Brett Kavanaugh: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
I realize they probably cherry picked the bad stuff for the show but this guy looked like a train wreck.
His initial rant seemed pretty undignified and went downhill from there- sniffing like he's coming off a week long coke binge and poking his cheek with his tongue (secret BJ signal to all the women in the room?) What the hell?...
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Forget even the sex accusations, how can you appoint a guy for life to sit in judgement of you all when he's been telling so many check able small lies under oath?
Surely the whole point of the process is to stop someone like that being appointed?Comment
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LOL The Flyer's mascot Gritty is pretty upsetting:
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Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
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"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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