Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is facing calls for impeachment from Democrats for what seems to be a bombshell accusation of sexual assault from his college days.
According to the New York Times, a previously unreported story about Kavanaugh during his freshman year at Yale University echoed the allegations made by Deborah Ramirez. The Times wrote, “A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly.”
This was another “bombshell,” and it sure entered the public debate with a bang. The Times tweeted out: “Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun. But when Brett Kavanaugh did it to her, Deborah Ramirez says, it confirmed that she didn’t belong at Yale in the first place.”
First of all, what? Remind me not to party with the Times‘ social media team.
More importantly, the Times failed to mention in this piece that the female student who was allegedly on the receiving end of the incident does not recall that it even happened.
After receiving heavy scrutiny for the piece, the Times updated their article and included an editor’s note, reading, “An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book’s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”
Another item omitted from the Times‘ attack on Kavanaugh: The new Kavanaugh book by the Times‘ reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly also contains details undermining the accusations by Kavanaugh’s original accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
While Ford gave an emotional testimony in September 2018 to the Senate Judiciary Committee detailing Kavanaugh groping her at a high school party in the 1980s, her high school friend, Leland Keyser, cast doubt on Ford’s claims, telling the authors, “I don’t have any confidence in the story.” Keyser went on to explain that she doesn’t even recall that particular get-together where Ford was allegedly assaulted by Kavanaugh, saying, “Those facts together I don’t recollect, and it just didn’t make any sense.”
There’s no way for the public to fully know what happened in Brett Kavanaugh’s past. What can be said about this whole saga is that it’s looking more likely that the press willingly engaged in a smear campaign against a respected federal judge to keep him off the Supreme Court. What’s worse is that those who participated in dragging Kavanaugh through the mud probably won’t be held accountable.
