CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin admitted Monday that the two claims of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh could be all fabricated, but said they still sound true to him because they’re so consistent with each other.
“What’s striking about the allegation, it is similar in atmospherics to the high school allegation,” Toobin said. “The excessive drinking, the coercive relationship with young women.”
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The New Yorker reported Sunday that a second woman claims Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at Yale University, after a first woman said Kavanaugh tried to rape her while they were both in high school. Toobin said he found the similarity in the stories convincing enough, even though the stories could be “lies.”
“It’s all of a piece, it is all consistent with one another,” he said. “Are they all lies? Perhaps. But it certainly has the ring of truth to me.”
“The idea that it’s all made up seems sort of preposterous at this point,” he added.
Democrats have insisted that the initial claim against Kavanaugh is “credible” even though there is no evidence the incident happened after 36 years. People close to both Kavanaugh and his first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, have said they have no awareness that it happened.
