Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed California Sen. Kamala Harris for defending a new unsubstantiated allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“I heard Kamala Harris say, ‘We have to believe the victims,'” Scarborough said Tuesday morning on his show. “As a prosecutor, she really should put in the word ‘alleged’ in front of the word ‘victims,’ especially in the case of the New York Times essay.”
“If you believed the alleged victim in the alleged incident, the alleged victim in the alleged incident doesn’t ever remember the alleged incident occurring. So if Kamala Harris is believing the, quote, victim, the alleged victim, the alleged victim says, ‘I don’t ever remember that happening,’ according to friends. So I’m just — again, for a lawyer, I’m confused.”
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This weekend, the New York Times ran a story which cited several unnamed officials saying that a witness had new allegations of sexual misconduct regarding Kavanaugh.
Max Stier, the witness according to several unnamed officials, reportedly saw Kavanaugh’s friends push “his penis into the hand of a female student.” Stier, 52, refused to talk with the Times about the incident, and the alleged “victim” has denied the incident ever happened.
The New York Times issued a lengthy editor’s note after it was pointed out that the story did not include the victim’s denial that the event happened.
Stier was a lawyer for Bill Clinton during his presidency when Kavanaugh was part of a legal team investigating Clinton.
