GOP Effort To Undercut KAV Assault Accusation A Poor One, 65 Women He Didn't.. [View all]
"Republicans’ gross responses to assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh." The GOP reacted by pointing out there are women Kavanaugh didn’t rape. By Aaron Rupar, Sep 14, 2018.
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. *Go to the Link for assault details.
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.”
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.
- Tweet, Matthew Iylesias, I would imagine that the typical sexual assaulter also comes across dozens of women who he does not sexually assault. It seems immaterial. 9:14 AM - Sep 14, 2018.
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.
Character reference letters are commonly deployed by men accused of sexual misconduct. For instance, after he was credibly accused of child molestation late last year, failed GOP U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore released testimonials from 12 women who spoke to what a quality person they believed him to be.
Judd Legum, You know who else had a letter? Roy Moore https://goo.gl/yazYGf pic.twitter.com/gwnYRmENt1 10:06 AM - Sep 14...
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