Saturday evening, the New York Times published an essay revealing a previously unreported allegation against Kavanaugh from his Yale days. The allegation was made by former classmate Max Stier, the president of a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group. Like previous allegations against Kavanaugh, these new allegations were uncorroborated, but the New York Times deemed them worthy of publication anyway. The allegations were known to the FBI and the U.S. Senate during the confirmation hearings but were not investigated at the time.
On Sunday morning, President Trump spoke out in support of Kavanaugh. “Now the Radical Left Democrats and their Partner, the LameStream Media, are after Brett Kavanaugh again, talking loudly of their favorite word, impeachment. He is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY. Such lies about him.” Trump also said they’re trying to “scare him into turning Liberal!”
Now the Radical Left Democrats and their Partner, the LameStream Media, are after Brett Kavanaugh again, talking loudly of their favorite word, impeachment. He is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY. Such lies about him. They want to scare him into turning Liberal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2019
On this point, I think Trump is wrong. They aren’t trying to scare Kavanaugh to influence his opinions, they are trying to get Kavanaugh impeached. After winning the 2018 midterms, Democrats were reportedly looking into launching their own investigation of Kavanaugh with the goal of impeaching him. It’s clear from social media that the left wants to force him out. #KavanaughLied was trending on Twitter Sunday morning.
In a follow-up tweet, Trump suggested Kavanaugh “should start suing people for libel.”
Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue. The lies being told about him are unbelievable. False Accusations without recrimination. When does it stop? They are trying to influence his opinions. Can’t let that happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2019
In case you were wondering, Michael Avenatti has even chimed in:
Let’s stop calling what happened last Fall re Kavanaugh an “investigation.” There was no such thing. Let’s call it by its real name – a COVER-UP.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 15, 2019
Make no mistake about it. Democrats realize that they can’t impeach Trump, and so this is all about trying to make the case for impeaching Kavanaugh. This will go nowhere, of course, because, this fresh allegation is as weak as the others. Max Stier, who claims he witnessed Kavanaugh “with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student,” has no one to corroborate his story, not even the woman he says was the female student victim.
This is the blockbuster "new allegation" against Kavanaugh. Except it's not actually new. It was shopped to Senate Democrats at the time and they apparently found it impossible to nail down, so they ignored it – the same Senators who found the "rape boat" allegations plausible. pic.twitter.com/0183DKr0q2
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) September 15, 2019
The Democrats and the media were perfectly willing to destroy a man’s life and reputation over a Supreme Court seat, and obviously, they haven’t given up that goal.
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