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| 2018-09-27 |
| h/t Instapundit Please tell me that I’m not the only one who is trying to catch their breath after a day like today. Today, we entered the Twilight Zone of politics, and witnessed the full-on borking attempt of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The gateway to this dimension was flung wide open by one Michael Avenatti, most commonly known as Stormy Daniels’s lawyer and Trump nemesis. As covered by Nina this morning, Avenatti released his grenade this morning, revealing his mystery client as one Julie Swetnick and blasting her name and face all over the internet while demanding her privacy. Well, let’s just say that the day did not go as planned for Team Avenatti, whose client has some substantial credibility gaps in her story of gang rapes and teenage partying. Among those problems: 1) Swetnick alleges that she attended "at least ten parties" where these gang rapes occurred, and Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge were present. 2) Swetnick graduated from Gaithersburg High School in 1980. Kavanaugh graduated from Georgetown Prep in 1983. She alleges these parties happened over the course of two years, from 1981 to 1983, and she herself was a victim of a gang rape at one of these parties in 1982. She does not allege that Kavanaugh or Judge participated in her rape. Promoting a comment Erick Erickson ✔ @EWErickson To review the Avenatti claim: a woman claims that when she was a college aged adult (graduated high school in 1980), she went to high school parties where high school girls were drugged and raped and she, as the adult present, did nothing but avoid the punch. 3) Kavanaugh has been subject to SIX PREVIOUS FEDERAL BACKGROUND CHECKS by the FBI and NONE of these claims have ever been made before. ...Also, Julie Swetnick has some serious personal issues ‐ including tax liens in her past, and a story of a restraining order that does not sound good. ..."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," ... I think hiring Michael Avenatti to represent her damages her credibility more than anything else, but that’s just me. Oh, but the fun wasn’t over yet! Christine Blasey Ford released her opening statement and her polygraph "results" today. It’s fair to say that this supposed "polygraph" is a piece of junk. The polygraph exam consisted of only two "relevant" questions: "Is any part of your statement false?" and "Did you make up any part of your statement?" (Ordinarily examiners ask a series of irrelevant questions to establish a baseline physiological response, which helps detect deception when relevant questions are asked, experts tell Fox News. According to Hanafin, Ford was also asked some questions to establish this baseline.) ...Dr. Ford's polygraph letter contradicts letter she sent to Feinstein. Polygraph letter says "4 boys and a couple of girls" were at party. Letter to Feinstein says "me and four others." No way to reconcile the two‐irrespective of whether she's counting herself in polygraph letter. ...But we’re not done! Kavanaugh was then accused of raping someone on a boat in Rhode Island in 1985! ...But we had one more allegation to go! Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado got an anonymous letter in the mail accusing Brett Kavanaugh of assault in 1998! And when I say "anonymous," I mean that it looks like the Unabomber addressed the envelope. ...Borking became a verb because the attack on Robert Bork succeeded. If the Republicans fail to stand firm now, what on earth will we end up calling what has been done to Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation, and his career? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 We need a large balance scales so we can weigh Judge Kavanaugh, *Live* on National TV, and determine if ... He weighs more than a duck?!? (With thanks to Monty Python) |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-09-27 09:50 |