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Matthew · « **on:** September 27, 2018, 04:16:23 PM »

Kavanaugh abandons script to deliver blistering opening statement on assault accusation

Kavanaugh says daughter suggested praying for Dr. Ford
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh chokes back tears as he recounts 10-year-old daughter Liza's suggestion that the family pray for Christine Blasey Ford.
A visibly emotional Judge Brett Kavanaugh abandoned his prepared script and delivered a blistering opening statement denying the allegations of sɛҳuąƖ assault leveled against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, calling it a “calculated and orchestrated political hit.”
In his sometimes tearful delivery, Kavanaugh, with his wife, Ashley, family and friends behind him, immediately denied Ford’s allegation that 36-years ago he pinned her down and attempted to remove her clothing.
“I will not be intimidated by withdrawing from this process. Your coordinated and well-funded effort to destroy my good name and destroy my family will not drive me out,” Kavanaugh said. “You may defeat me in the final vote, but you’ll never get me to quit. Ever.”
He also detailed the “10 long days” between when Ford first publicly made the accusation and Thursday’s hearing.
“In those 10 long days, as was predictable and I predicted, my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed,” Kavanaugh said. “The 10-day delay has been harmful to me and my family, to the Supreme Court, and to the country.”
Kavanaugh said he welcomed “any kind of investigation.”
“Senate, FBI, or otherwise. The committee has now conducted a thorough investigation,” Kavanaugh said. “I know any kind of investigation—Senate, FBI, Montgomery County Police—will clear me.”
He added: “Listen to the people I’ve grown up with and played with and coached with and dated and had beers with and listen to the witnesses who allegedly were at this event.”
“This confirmation process has become a national disgrace,” Kavanaugh said, detailing the derogatory words used to describe him in recent days, such as “evil” and someone who would “threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come.”

“I understand the passions of the moment, but I would say to senators, your words have meaning. Millions of Americans listened carefully to you. Given comments like those, it isn’t any surprise that people are willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family, or send any violent email to my wife.”
In a passionate and tearful delivery, Kavanaugh said: “This has destroyed my family and my good name. A good name built up through decades of very hard work.”
“This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit,” Kavanaugh said. “This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade good people from serving our country.”
Kavanaugh denied Ford’s allegations, repeatedly, throughout his statement.
“I’m here to tell the truth. I’ve never sɛҳuąƖly assaulted anyone. Not in high school. Not in college. Not ever. sɛҳuąƖ assault is horrific,” Kavanaugh said. “Allegations of sɛҳuąƖ assault must always be taken seriously, those who make allegations must always be heard. At the same time, the person who is the subject of those allegations must also be heard. Due process means listening to both sides.”
Kavanaugh also defended his record, as being in “high-profile” public service roles for more than 20 years.
“No one ever accused me of any kind of sɛҳuąƖ misconduct. No one. Ever. A lifetime of high profile of public service at the highest levels of American government,” Kavanaugh said. “Never a hint of anything of this kind and that’s because nothing of this kind ever happened.”
Kavanaugh detailed his, and his father’s, practice of keeping detailed calendars that serve as both calendars and “diaries.”
Kavanaugh also said he did not doubt that Ford experienced some sort of sɛҳuąƖ assault, but maintained that it was not him.
“I am not questioning that Dr. Ford was sɛҳuąƖly assaulted. But I have never done this to her or to anyone. It’s not who I am. It is not who I was,” Kavanaugh said. “I am innocent of this charge. I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford or her family.”
Kavanaugh, in tears, said that his daughters even were praying “for the woman.” Kavanaugh praised his wife, Ashley, whom he said “has been a rock.”
“I thank God every day for Ashley and my family. We live in a country devoted to due process and the rule of law. That means taking allegations seriously. But if the mere allegation, mere assertion of an allegation, a refuted allegation from 36 years ago is enough to destroy a person’s life and career, we have abandoned the due process that defines our legal system in our country,” Kavanaugh said.
“I ask you to judge me by the standard you would want applied to your father, your husband, your brother or your son,” Kavanaugh said. “My family and I intend no ill will toward Dr. Ford or her family, but I swear today, under oath, before the Senate and the nation, before my family, and God, I am innocent of this charge.”

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:18:58 PM »

As I was saying earlier about the profound divide in this country,

A little over half of the country is sympathetic to Kavanaugh and outraged at the political hatchet job of the Democrats. They pray for Kavanaugh and pray to God we get a good, honest, conservative judge on the Supreme Court who will at least respect the Constitution.

But almost half of the country hate Kavanaugh with a passion and many have threatened violence to him, his wife, and his family.

How can such polar opposites live in harmony in the same country?

Half the country points to evil and says "good!", while the other half points to the same evil and says "evil!" and vice-versa. This can't last forever.

American and Soviet citizens from the 1960's would be expected to get along better together than an American conservative and an American leftist SJW today. We're on a razor's edge for cινιℓ ωαr, it seems.

forlorn · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2018, 04:43:27 PM »

Quote from: Matthew on September 27, 2018, 04:18:58 PM

American and Soviet citizens from the 1960's would be expected to get along better together than an American conservative and an American leftist SJW today. We're on a razor's edge for cινιℓ ωαr, it seems.

This is such a wild statement at face value - but it's actually completely true. The world has gone insane.

B from A · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2018, 06:26:59 PM »

Quote from: Matthew on September 27, 2018, 04:18:58 PM

As I was saying earlier about the profound divide in this country, ...

How can such polar opposites live in harmony in the same country?

Half the country points to evil and says "good!", while the other half points to the same evil and says "evil!" and vice-versa. This can't last forever.

American and Soviet citizens from the 1960's would be expected to get along better together than an American conservative and an American leftist SJW today. We're on a razor's edge for cινιℓ ωαr, it seems.

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"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." -Mark 3:25

Maria Regina · « **Reply #4 on:** September 28, 2018, 02:25:02 AM »

Maria Regina · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2018, 02:31:52 AM »

Stubborn · « **Reply #6 on:** September 28, 2018, 05:19:13 AM »

Judge Kavanaugh has his turn, his opening statement.

Maria Regina · « **Reply #7 on:** September 28, 2018, 09:31:54 PM »

Maria Regina · « **Reply #8 on:** September 28, 2018, 10:42:57 PM »

by Patrick Buchanan

9/28/2018

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was approved on an 11-10 party-line vote Friday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yet his confirmation is not assured.

Sen. Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, has demanded and gotten as the price of his vote on the floor, a week-long delay. And the GOP Senate has agreed to Democratic demands for a new FBI investigation of all credible charges of sɛҳuąƖ abuse against the judge.

Astonishing. With a quarter century in public service, Kavanaugh has undergone six FBI field investigations. They turned up nothing like the charges of sɛҳuąƖ misconduct leveled against him these last two weeks.

In his 30 hours of public testimony before the judiciary committee prior to Thursday, no senator had raised an issue of a sɛҳuąƖ misconduct.

But if Brett Kavanaugh is elevated to the Supreme Court, it will be because, in his final appearance, he tore up the script assigned to him. He set aside his judicial demeanor to fight for his good name with the passion and righteous rage of the innocent and good man he believes himself to be.

He turned an inquisition into his character and conduct as a teenager into a blazing indictment of the Democratic minority for what they were doing to his reputation and his family.

Rather than play the role of penitent, Kavanaugh did what Clarence Thomas did 30 years before. He attacked the character, conduct and motives of his Democratic accusers.

And did the judge not speak the truth? With few exceptions, all four dozen Senate Democrats are determined to defeat him, even if that requires them to destroy him.

They rejected Brett Kavanaugh the day he was nominated.

Why? Because the judge is a conservative and a Catholic, hence an unreliable vote to sustain Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that discovered hidden in the Constitution a woman’s right to abort her unborn child.

The verdict on the judge came down in the hearts and minds of his enemies the moment he was named. They had him convicted, before they met him. And once his fate was decided, the only remaining issues were where to find the dirt to bury him with, and how to make it look like they had given Kavanaugh a fair hearing.

Contrast how Kavanaugh, who has served his country with distinction for decades, was treated Thursday, and how Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was treated.

Ford was greeted with courtly courtesy by Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley. No Republican senator asked her a question. Rachel Mitchell, a prosecutor of sex crimes brought in from Arizona, quizzed her as though she were a 15-year-old girl who had just been attacked, not a 51-year-old woman whose uncorroborated accusations were designed not only to defeat a Supreme Court nomination but to destroy the career, family and future of a federal judge.

After each five-minutes of polite questioning by Mitchell, Democratic senators took turns lauding Ford’s courage, bravery and heroism in agreeing to appear.

Ford’s testimony as to what she says happened in 1982 did seem credible and compelling. Yet, to allow her accusation of attempted rape to stand without tough and thorough cross-examination, given the stakes involved, was a dereliction of Senate duty.

Consider. Ford does not recall how she got to the party where the alleged assault took place. She does not know where the party was held. She does now recall how she got home.

None of the other four she said were at the party recall being there. Her best friend, whom she apparently left behind as the lone woman in a house with a pair of drunken rapists, does not recall any such party. Nor does she recall ever having met Kavanaugh.

Consider the other charges leveled against Kavanaugh in the last two weeks: Exposing himself in the face of a freshman girl in a dorm at Yale. Participating in a series of at least 10 parties in high school where planned gang rapes of drunken and drugged women were a regular feature, with the boys lining up outside bedrooms.

In six FBI background investigations of Kavanaugh, interviewing countless friends and contemporaries from high school days, none of this wild and criminal misconduct of the early ’80s was mentioned.

“This is the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, “I hope that the American people will see through this charade.”

They had best do so. For what is being done to Kavanaugh is, if Democrats take control of Congress in November, a harbinger of what is to come. The assault on Kavanaugh, converting a man known for his integrity into a youthful Jack the Ripper in 10 days, is the playbook for what is planned for Trump.

The Kavanaugh lynching is a dress rehearsal for the impeachment of Donald Trump. And the best way to fight impeachment is the way the judge fought Thursday.

In defending yourself, go after your malevolent accusers as well.

https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/a-dress-rehearsal-for-impeachment/

Maria Regina · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2018, 01:56:07 PM »

Senator Grassley tears into Senator Sanders concerning his prejudices

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoTuAAnXsAATKjl.jpg:large

Maria Regina · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2018, 10:28:22 PM »

More attacks on Kavanaugh. Professor Ludington details a minor brawl at a bar during junior year at Yale.

FBI investigations continue.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/kavanaugh-was-involved-in-bar-brawl-at-yale/

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... When the man noticed Ludington, Kavanaugh and the others looking at him, he objected and told them to stop it, adding an expletive, Ludington said.

Kavanaugh cursed, he said, and “threw his beer at the guy.”

“The guy swung at Brett,” Ludington continued. At that point, Dudley “took his beer and smashed it into the head of the guy, who by now had Brett in an embrace. I then tried to pull Chris back, and a bunch of other guys tried to pull the other guy back. I don’t know what Brett was doing in the melee, but there was blood, there was glass, there was beer and there was some shouting, and the police showed up.” ...

Maria Regina · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2018, 12:39:57 AM »

The third accuser, Julie Swetnick is slurring the Irish by calling Kavanaugh a blackout drunk.
However, Kavanaugh has never admitted to blacking out. Nor has he admitted being a drug addict.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nbc-news-sits-down-kavanaugh-accuser-julie-swetnick-but-cant-verify-claims-1148414
Here are three important paragraphs from the link above:

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.... Swetnick, asked to respond to Kavanaugh's denial of her allegations, said that "he is an admitted blackout drunk and drug addict."

In her sworn statement, Swetnick claimed that Kavanaugh "consistently engage(d) in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sɛҳuąƖ nature with women in the early 1980s."

Before airing the interview, Snow said: "NBC News, for the record, has not been able to independently verify her claims. There are things she told us on camera that differ from her written statements last week." ....

Maria Regina · « **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2018, 02:40:19 AM »

Additional information on Julie Swetnick -- so many inconsistencies and no verification by witnesses.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-kavanaugh-accuser-julie-swetnick-backtracks-on-some-claims-in-extensive-nbc-news-interview/

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.... Swetnick also responded to reports on lawsuits filed against her by her former employer, and a restraining order filed against her by an ex-boyfriend.

She provided four names to NBC News that she said could confirm her descriptions of the parties in the 1980s. NBC News contacted all four: one said they did not remember a Julie Swetnick, one was dead, and two did not respond, per Snow. ....

Maria Regina · « **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2018, 08:00:23 PM »

The following is a great video concerning the Ford/Kavanaugh testimony.

Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch presents:

Maria Regina · « **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:49:27 PM »

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... once voters know the full truth (the truth the establishment media are hiding from them), they overwhelmingly side with Kavanaugh — those who call for his confirmation jump from 37 percent to 57 percent.

There are other numbers bubbling beneath the surface inconvenient to the false reality manufactured by the media. To begin with “69 percent agree with Kavanaugh’s pronouncement and Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) statement that the proceedings have been a national disgrace.”

Secondly, the poll found that a whopping 75 percent believe Sen. Dianne Feinstein “should have turned over Ford’s letter months earlier so that this debacle might have been avoided.” ...

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/02/poll-60-want-kavanaugh-confirmed-if-fbi-dismisses-allegations/

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