Really Big Problems With Kavanaugh Accuser Swetnick’s Tale

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Julie Swetnick, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of participating in gang rapes in the 1980s, has a problem with her story. Four problems, actually.

Swetnick, represented by porn star lawyer Michael Avanetti, claims Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were both at a party at which she was drugged and gang raped. On Monday, she did a lengthy interview on NBC News, in which she made several unsubstantiated claims.

NBC, toeing the liberal line as expected, put her on anyway. Before airing the interview with Swetnick, NBC News national correspondent Kate Snow said: “NBC News, for the record, has not been able to independently verify her claims. There are things she told us on camera that differ from her written statements last week.”

Swetnick “provided four names to NBC News that she said could confirm her descriptions of the parties in the 1980s. NBC News contacted all four: one said they did not remember a Julie Swetnick, one was dead, and two did not respond, per Snow,” Mediaite reported. . .

NBC News also noted that Swetnick appeared to change her initial statement about Kavanaugh being involved in gang rapes. Swetnick initially claimed: “I also 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. I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh.” (Read more from “Really Big Problems With Kavanaugh Accuser Swetnick’s Tale” HERE)

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Schumer Admits Democrats Have a Strategy to Keep Kavanaugh From Being Confirmed. Here’s Their Plan.

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By Townhall. While the FBI completes a seventh background check on Judge Brett Kavanaugh and investigates multiple allegations of sexual assault, the Democrats have launched a new tactic to keep the judge from being confirmed: punch holes in his statements and make people question his credibility.

According to Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Kavanaugh was “mislead[ing] senators about everything from the momentous to the mundane,” to make sure he was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

“The harsh fact of the matter is that we have mounting evidence that Judge Kavanaugh is just not credible,” Schumer told the Associated Press on Monday. (Read more from “Schumer Admits Democrats Have a Strategy to Keep Kavanaugh From Being Confirmed. Here’s Their Plan.” HERE)

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Trump Gets Rare Praise From Schumer After Deal to Replace Nafta

By Market Watch. President Donald Trump on Monday got rare kudos from the man he has sometimes referred to as “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer,” as the Senate minority leader joined those in welcoming a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Fellow New Yorkers Schumer and Trump have had an on-again, off-again relationship, at times trading verbal jabs but also striking a debt-ceiling deal in September 2017.

Schumer once said negotiating with Trump was like negotiating “with Jell-O.” His statement Monday, meanwhile, said he knew that Nafta “needed fixing,” and that he wanted to see details of the deal Trump discussed in a Rose Garden news conference. (Read more from “Trump Gets Rare Praise From Schumer After Deal to Replace Nafta” HERE)

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Bombshell: Mutual Friends of Kavanaugh, Ramirez Have Text Messages Suggesting…

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Two mutual friends of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Deborah Ramirez from Yale, Kerry Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, have damning text messages, NBC News reported. According to Berchem, Kavanaugh and his team were texting her asking her to refute Ramirez’s sexual assault allegations before her allegations were published in The New Yorker piece.

From NBC News:

The texts between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, both friends of Kavanaugh, suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public. In one message, Yarasavage said Kavanaugh asked her to go on the record in his defense. Two other messages show communication between Kavanaugh’s team and former classmates in advance of the story.

The texts also demonstrate that Kavanaugh and Ramirez were more socially connected than previously understood and that Ramirez was uncomfortable around Kavanaugh when they saw each other at a wedding 10 years after they graduated. Berchem’s efforts also show that some potential witnesses have been unable to get important information to the FBI.

Berchem contacted the FBI on Sunday night to hand the text messages over as part of their investigation into Ramirez’s allegations. When she failed to receive a response from the bureau, she typed up a memo and included texts that she thought were most relevant.

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Poll Reveals How Voters Truly Feel About Kavanaugh

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By The Federalist. A new poll finds that 58 percent of voters in West Virginia think Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court following his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

The Public Opinion strategies poll commissioned by the Judicial Crisis Network found an overwhelming majority of West Virginians (59 percent) thought Kavanaugh’s testimony was more believable than Christine Blasey Ford, who accused the federal judge of sexually assaulting her more than 35 years ago at a drunken high school party. Those who believe Kavanaugh include 81 percent of Republicans, 43 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Independent voters. (Read more from “Poll Reveals How Voters Truly Feel About Kavanaugh” HERE)

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New Poll Shows Missouri Voters Rejecting Sen. Mccaskill for Opposing Kavanaugh

By The Federalist. A new poll finds that Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill has fallen behind her Republican opponent due to her opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

A new poll by Remington Research Group found that of the 1,555 likely Missouri voters surveyed late last week, 48 percent said they were planning to vote for Republican candidate Josh Hawley while 46 percent said they planned to vote for McCaskill.

When asked if McCaskill’s opposition to Kavanaugh affected their voting decision, 49 percent said it made them less likely to vote for the Democratic senator, while only 42 percent it made them more likely to vote for her.

The incumbent Democrat is in a hotly contested race, and support for Hawley has been surging in the polls over the past month. The Real Clear Politics poll average puts Hawley ahead of McCaskill by one point and shows that the race has grown increasingly competitive going into November. (Read more from “New Poll Shows Missouri Voters Rejecting Sen. Mccaskill for Opposing Kavanaugh” HERE)

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McDonald’s Employee Accused of Putting Cleaner in Cop’s Drink

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A Kansas McDonald’s worker has been charged with one count of aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer for allegedly putting cleaner in a deputy’s drink.

Trevor Hockaday, 22, was charged Wednesday by Allen County police for putting a peroxide-based cleaner usually used to clean the restaurant’s counters in an Allen County Deputy’s drink on September 12.

According to investigators, the deputy picked up the food from the McDonald’s drive-thru while Hockaday was working. Officials say a short time after drinking the beverage, the deputy experienced flu-like symptoms, KOAM reports. . .

According to the publication, a coworker of Hockaday came forward and said Hockaday added “four little squirts” of the cleaner to the cop’s beverage.

“In today’s day and age, not only us in law enforcement but citizens as a whole, there’s enough going on out there that we have to worry about … now my guys are cautious about going through that drive through,” Murphy said to the Wichita Eagle. “We all chose this line of work to protect and serve. Now my guys have that concern of is my food safe.” (Read more from “McDonald’s Employee Accused of Putting Cleaner in Cop’s Drink” HERE)

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Mystery: Someone Doxxed Republican Senators During the Kavanaugh Hearings

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As Brett Kavanaugh testified Thursday in the Senate, refuting allegations that he sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when the pair were both teenagers, a mystery was brewing in the House of Representatives, where someone connected to a House computer was “doxxing” select Senators — surreptitiously editing Wikipedia to reveal the private names and addresses of prominent Judiciary Committee Republicans. . .

As soon as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) concluded his fiery remarks describing the Kavanaugh affair as “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” information for Graham and Republican Senators Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch, both of Utah, appeared on the online encyclopedia.

Not all of the information was correct. One phone number purportedly belonging to Graham redirected to a D.C. non-profit called the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (or SMYAL).

The information was removed almost as quickly as it was discovered, and after a raucous, bipartisan outcry on Twitter, and the bot’s administrators deleted the Tweets. The damage was done, however, and the intent was clear: someone in the House was hoping leftist (or anti-Kavanaugh) activists would jam senators’ cell phones and protest Republicans at their private residences — something several prominent leftists have been suggesting on Twitter. (Read more from “Mystery: Someone Doxxed Republican Senators During the Kavanaugh Hearings” HERE)

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An Important Revelation From Dr. Ford’s Testimony

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By Townhall. Conventional wisdom, as dictated by a preponderance of television pundits, says there were no new facts that came out during the testimony of Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh this week. Many also said Rachel Mitchell, the sex crimes prosecutor that questioned Ford, didn’t achieve much. I disagree.

There was at least one revelation that was shocking and the repercussions from it could be quite substantial. During Dr. Ford’s testimony, she said she didn’t know the Judiciary Committee had offered many, many times for her to testify in private and in California. It was shocking that she didn’t know this because it was widely reported. References to it appeared in numerous news reports. But this is what Ford said during her testimony:

Mitchell: Was it communicated to you by your counsel or someone else that the committee had asked to interview you, and that they offered to come out to California to do so?

Ford Attorney: I’m going to object, Mr. Chairman, to any call for privileged conversation between counsel and Dr. Ford.

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Ford: Can I say something to you? Do you mind if I say something to you directly? I just appreciate that you did offer that. I wasn’t clear on what the offer was. If you were going to come out to see me, I would have happily hosted you and been happy to speak with you out there. I just did not – it was not clear to me that that was the case.

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Senator to Vote ‘Yes’ on Kavanaugh Unless ‘Bombshell’ Emerges

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By Washington Times. Sen. Lindsey Graham says he plans to vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court absent some unknown “bombshell,” saying the judge’s life has been “ruined” by recent accusations of sexual assault and misconduct when the judge was in high school and college.

“He’s not a stumbling, bumbling drunk. I don’t believe that you could have accomplished what he’s accomplished to have been a serial rapist in high school and stop it for the rest of your life,” Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

“Not one person who he’s been in charge of during his legal career has ever said he did anything inappropriate,” Mr. Graham said.

“I think he’s highly qualified. I think he’s a capable man. I think his life was ruined here,” he said. “I’m going to vote for him unless some bombshell comes out that I don’t know about.”

The FBI has re-opened a limited background investigation into Judge Kavanaugh, who forcefully denied during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week that he ever engaged in sexual assault. (Read more from “Senator to Vote ‘Yes’ on Kavanaugh Unless ‘Bombshell’ Emerges” HERE)

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Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate Democrats for Kavanaugh Leak

By The Atlantic. As the FBI starts interviewing people who could have witnessed the alleged sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Republicans are calling for an investigation to hold Democrats accountable for what they say has become a divisive and unnecessary public debate over sexual misconduct allegations leveled against Kavanaugh.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican on the Judiciary Committee who has become the voice of GOP outrage over Kavanaugh’s treatment, called for a probe of who leaked a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s ranking Democrat, from California psychologist Christine Blasey Ford. Ford alleged in the letter that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school but asked that her complaint be kept confidential.

Ford stated again during her gripping testimony Thursday before the committee that she had not wanted to go public with her account, adding that she only went on the record after reporters from numerous news organizatons, tipped off to her letter, had visited her home and workplace.

“Somebody betrayed her trust for a political purpose,” Graham said Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week. “We’re going to do a wholesale, full-scale investigation of what I think was a despicable process to deter it from happening again.” (Read more from “Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate Democrats for Kavanaugh Leak” HERE)

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Democrat Taking a ‘Hard Look’ at Presidential Run

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By Washington Times. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’ll take a “hard look at running for president” after the November elections.

The Boston Globe reports the Massachusetts Democrat spoke about her future during a town hall in western Massachusetts Saturday.

Warren, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, is running for re-election in November against GOP state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who was co-chairman of Trump’s 2016 Massachusetts campaign. (Read more from “Democrat Taking a ‘Hard Look’ at Presidential Run” HERE)

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For Warren, ‘Engaged and Enraged’ Democratic Women Strong Base for Potential Presidential Run

By Boston Globe. When Senator Elizabeth Warren told a town hall audience in Holyoke on Saturday that she’d “take a hard look” at running for president after next month’s midterm election, she further stoked talk of her national ambitions.

Political observers on both sides of the spectrum who have long speculated about the liberal Democrat’s future on Sunday had a mixed response to Warren’s surprising statement, which came in response to a question from the audience.

A favorite of progressives and the party faithful, Warren has appeared emboldened by the growing anger toward President Trump and his conservative base. That anger, particularly among women, was never more apparent than on Thursday, when Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was questioned about sexual assault allegations before a Senate panel. . .

Noting the record number of women running for Congress this year, Rachael Cobb, chairwoman of the political science department at Suffolk University, said Warren appears to be putting up a “trial balloon,” ahead of what will likely be a crowded field for Democrats running for president in 2020. (Read more from “For Warren, ‘Engaged and Enraged’ Democratic Women Strong Base for Potential Presidential Run” HERE)

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Senators Vow ‘Full Scale’ Investigation to Determine Who Leaked Kavanaugh Accuser’s Letter

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By The Blaze. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) charged Sunday that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, will face an investigation over her office’s handling of a letter from Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who initially accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

Weeks after President Donald Trump announced Kavanaugh’s nomination, Ford wrote Feinstein an anonymous letter outlining her allegations. She demanded she remain anonymous. But sometime after the media learned of the allegations, Ford’s letter was leaked to the press. The only people who reportedly had access to the letter were Feinstein’s office, the office of Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), and Ford’s attorneys.

How the letter leaked has been a huge source of contention, as it could prove a level of coordination to undermine Kavanaugh’s confirmation. . .

Speaking on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” Cotton also revealed that Ford’s attorneys will face a Washington, D.C., bar investigation for allegedly withholding from their client the fact that the Senate Judiciary Committee offered to take her testimony in a confidential manner by flying staffers to interview her in California. (Read more from “Senators Vow ‘Full Scale’ Investigation to Determine Who Leaked Kavanaugh Accuser’s Letter” HERE)

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Limits to FBI’s Kavanaugh Investigation Have Not Changed, Despite Trump’s Comments

By NBC News. The FBI has received no new instructions from the White House about how to proceed with its weeklong investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a senior U.S. official and another source familiar with the matter tell NBC News.

According to the sources, the president’s Saturday night tweet saying he wants the FBI to interview whoever agents deem appropriate has not changed the limits imposed by the White House counsel’s office on the FBI investigation — including a specific witness list that does not include Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in high school.

Also not on the list, the sources say, are former classmates who have contradicted Kavanaugh’s account of his college alcohol consumption, instead describing him as a frequent, heavy drinker. The FBI is also not authorized to interview high school classmates who could shed light on what some people have called untruths in Kavanaugh’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony about alleged sexual references in his high school yearbook.

The sources said nothing would preclude the FBI from asking Kavanaugh’s high school friend Mark Judge, who is on the witness list, about Swetnick’s allegations, but the sources stressed that this is not a top priority. (Read more from “Limits to FBI’s Kavanaugh Investigation Have Not Changed, Despite Trump’s Comments” HERE)

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