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New Accusation from Kavanaugh’s College Years Emerges

By Tws Staff

The New Yorker published a story on Sunday night in which Deborah Ramirez, a college classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s, claims that Kavanaugh exposed himself during a party during their freshman year at Yale.

The allegation is denied by Kavanaugh and all others who both were alleged by Ramirez to have been at the party and spoke to the New Yorker. But an anonymous classmate who did not attend the party told the New Yorker he’s sure he was told about the incident at the time.

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Ramirez herself initially “was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.” The New Yorker doesn’t provide any quotations from Ramirez’s initial uncertain remarks about Kavanaugh, but reports that she took “six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney” before detailing her 35-year-old allegation. “Ramirez said that she hoped her story would support that of Christine Blasey Ford,” the New Yorker added.

Here are the details of the allegation:

[A] small group of students decided to play a drinking game together. “We were sitting in a circle,” she said. “People would pick who drank.” Ramirez was chosen repeatedly, she said, and quickly became inebriated. At one point, she said, a male student pointed a gag plastic penis in her direction. Later, she said, she was on the floor, foggy and slurring her words, as that male student and another stood nearby. (Ramirez identified the two male onlookers, but, at her request, The New Yorker is not naming them.)

A third male student then exposed himself to her. “I remember a penis being in front of my face,” she said. “I knew that’s not what I wanted, even in that state of mind.” She recalled remarking, “That’s not a real penis,” and the other students laughing at her confusion and taunting her, one encouraging her to “kiss it.” She said that she pushed the person away, touching it in the process. […]

Ramirez said that what has stayed with her most forcefully is the memory of laughter at her expense from Kavanaugh and the other students. “It was kind of a joke,” she recalled. “And now it’s clear to me it wasn’t a joke.”


“The New Yorker has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party,” the New Yorker reports.

Two alleged eyewitnesses denied the incident occurred:

In a statement, two of those male classmates who Ramirez alleged were involved in the incident, the wife of a third male student she said was involved, and three other classmates, Dino Ewing, Louisa Garry, and Dan Murphy, disputed Ramirez’s account of events: “We were the people closest to Brett Kavanaugh during his first year at Yale. He was a roommate to some of us, and we spent a great deal of time with him, including in the dorm where this incident allegedly took place. Some of us were also friends with Debbie Ramirez during and after her time at Yale. We can say with confidence that if the incident Debbie alleges ever occurred, we would have seen or heard about it—and we did not. The behavior she describes would be completely out of character for Brett. In addition, some of us knew Debbie long after Yale, and she never described this incident until Brett’s Supreme Court nomination was pending. Editors from the New Yorker contacted some of us because we are the people who would know the truth, and we told them that we never saw or heard about this.”


But an anonymous classmate claims second-hand knowledge of the incident:

“A classmate of Ramirez’s, who declined to be identified because of the partisan battle over Kavanaugh’s nomination, said that another student told him about the incident either on the night of the party or in the next day or two. The classmate said that he is ‘one-hundred-per-cent sure’ that he was told at the time that Kavanaugh was the student who exposed himself to Ramirez.”


And Kavanaugh calls it a false smear: “This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The people who knew me then know that this did not happen, and have said so. This is a smear, plain and simple. I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my good name—and the reputation for character and integrity I have spent a lifetime building—against these last-minute allegations.”

As for the Thursday testimony, Dianne Feinstein is now calling for it to be cancelled:

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