The Washington Post said they had the same allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that the New York Times ran with Saturday but did not run the article because they could not confirm key details of the story.
“The Washington Post last year confirmed that two intermediaries had relayed such a claim to lawmakers and the FBI,” the paper said in a Sunday night story. “The Post did not publish a story in part because the intermediaries declined to identify the alleged witness and because the woman who was said to be involved declined to comment.”
On Saturday, the New York Times ran an article about Kavanaugh and one of his sexual assault accusers, Deborah Ramirez, based on a book the writers are releasing this month. Buried 11 paragraphs in was a new allegation of sexual misconduct based on two officials who had talked to a witness of the alleged incident.
The witness, Max Stier, allegedly saw Kavanaugh’s friends pushing “his penis into the hand of a female student” according to the officials who talked to Stier. He declined to talk about the allegation with either the Times or the Post. The woman in the allegation also denies the event ever took place according to friends.
Stier, 52, faced off with Kavanaugh during Bill Clinton’s presidency as Stier was one of the lawyers representing the president and Kavanaugh joined Ken Starr’s team investigating Clinton.
The New York Times was forced to issue a lengthy correction Sunday after conservative critics pointed out the original story did not include that the alleged victim said the event never happened.
