Republicans' gross responses to assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh

[babylonsister]

Republicans’ gross responses to assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh
The GOP reacted by pointing out there are women Kavanaugh didn’t rape.
Aaron Rupar
Sep 14, 2018, 1:17 pm


On Friday, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer broke news in the New Yorker that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault.

Here are the details:

The allegation dates back to the early nineteen-eighties, when Kavanaugh was a high-school student at Georgetown Preparatory School, in Bethesda, Maryland, and the woman attended a nearby high school. In the letter, the woman alleged that, during an encounter at a party, Kavanaugh held her down, and that he attempted to force himself on her. She claimed in the letter that Kavanaugh and a classmate of his, both of whom had been drinking, turned up music that was playing in the room to conceal the sound of her protests, and that Kavanaugh covered her mouth with his hand. She was able to free herself. Although the alleged incident took place decades ago and the three individuals involved were minors, the woman said that the memory had been a source of ongoing distress for her, and that she had sought psychological treatment as a result.

Information about the accusation comes a day Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) released a cryptic statement announcing that she had “received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court” and had referred that information to the FBI.

Within half an hour of the New Yorker publishing its story, Sen. Chuck Gassley (R-IA) — chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee — released a statement signed by 65 women who knew Kavanaugh around the time of sexual assault allegation.

The women claim that “[f]or the entire time we have known Brett Kavanaugh, he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”

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But Grassley’s attempt to undercut the sexual assault accusations against Kavanaugh is a poor one. Treating women well in one set of circumstances certainly doesn’t mean someone is incapable of assaulting them in another.

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The letter also doesn’t directly address the allegations against Kavanaugh, raising questions about whether the women who signed it knew their signatures would ultimately be used by Republicans in an attempt to discredit a sexual assault accusation.

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more...

https://thinkprogress.org/kavanaugh-sexual-assault-accusation-grassley-letter-9be166300b7a/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Next: a letter from all the people that Jeffrey Dahmer didn't eat." - The Rude Pundit

[Fred Sanders]

2. Orchestrated round up of 65 women...did you even know 65 females in high school?

Let alone that many remember you 31 years later regrading your character?

Pathetic counter.

[babylonsister]

3. From Charles Pierce:

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. And how did they round them up (seemingly) so quickly?

They had to have known weeks ago that this was coming out.

When I was in high school I didn't know a total of 65 people at all, let alone be able to come up with 65 - or even 10 - who would remember me decades later well enough to vouch for my character.

[DesertRat]

12. Interesting how quickly he got 65 names

It’s almost as though he KNEW about this accusation of sexual assault and tried to hide it. But got prepared with names JUST IN CASE.

[Ilsa]

5. She was from another high school, not his.

He probably kept up his reputation at his own school, but preyed on the young women not rich enough to attend his prep school.

[FBaggins]

6. None of the 65 was from his school

Since it was an all-boys school.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. So how did they know him at all?

[FBaggins]

8. It was reportedly an all-boys school...

... not a prison.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Yes, but 65? He must have been an extremely popular kid

for 65 women who didn't go to his school to have remembered him so well after 30 years that they would be willing to vouch that he was a great guy (he'd never tried to rape them).

[DesertRat]

11. I went to an all-girls high school

I did not know 65 boys. Not even close.

[FBaggins]

13. I'm sure that I knew 65... but I certainly don't remember close to that many

But that's really not relevant. Every school has a handful of people that almost everyone knows... and it's certainly true that we know the ones that go on to great success. That isn't at all surprising.

[Ilsa]

14. Thanks, I didn't know it was all boys.

Grassley is an idiot and the list is proof.

[Lochloosa]

10. Ted Bundy was described as a very long likable person.

[Grassy Knoll]

15. Chuck Grassley Needs A Corn Nut Enema

[Stuart G]

16. Jeffery Dahmer...??? Many here do not know who that is./was.

Rude Pundit mentions him in the original post.

That is why they invented Google Search. Jeffery died in 1991. He was not a nice man. (27 years ago)

take a search on Jeffery if you don't know..