Tag: Brett Kavanaugh

The Main Event – October 12, 2018

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Thank You, Susan Collins

As you now know, the Senate voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, with Senator Susan Collins of Maine casting the final vote. Unlike Lisa Murkowski from Alaska – who tried to sit on both sides of the fence by saying Kavanaugh “is a good man but not the right man for the Supreme Court” – Collins stood for her principles last week. In a compelling 43-minute speech on the Senate floor, Collins began by saying what we’ve all been thinking for the past month: that the left had planned to oppose Trump’s nominee to the Court no matter who it was. Ed alert: “Straight from the Democrat playbook. If all else fails, accuse someone of sexual assault or being a racist.”

More highlights from Susan Collins speech on Brett Kavanaugh on this week’s show, and thoughts on the ceremonial swearing in at the White House from Monday night.

Hillary Chimes In

It’s pretty clear Hillary Clinton can’t stand not being part of our government anymore. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, she chimed in on everything – one of them, of course, being the swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh, which she called “a political rally.”

But it’s Hillary’s comments on “civility” that are making real news. “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton said. “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.”

But Hillary isn’t content to only show up on TV; she and Bill want you to see them in person, and they want you to pay big money to do it. The Clintons will embark on a 13-city speaking tour that kicks off November 18. Fun facts about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s speaking tour:

  • Titled “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,” the talks will focus on “stories and inspiring anecdotes that shaped their historic careers in public service, while also discussing issues of the day and looking toward the future.”
  • The tour is organized by Live Nation, the same promoter behind Michelle Obama’s current speaking tour.
  • Ticket prices will range from $72 to $750.

How is it that Brett Kavanaugh’s life was almost destroyed over allegations by women who couldn’t produce any witnesses or even say where they were attacked – but a predator like Bill Clinton is still able to go on speaking tours and make money in 2018?

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The Main Event – September 28, 2018

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The hearing took place on Thursday and Christine Blasey Ford showed up. Here’s part of her opening statement, where she explains why she sent a letter in June to the office of her congressperson, Anna Eshoo of California’s 18th District, who then sent the letter to Diane Feinstein’s office in July.

The Dems Destroy Brett Kavanaugh

Another week goes by with Democrats using unsubstantiated accusations to destroy Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Let’s recap what happened before the hearing on Thursday:

  • A second accuser emerged: Deborah Ramirez, who claims Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during drinking game when they were freshmen at Yale 35 years ago. On the night of the alleged incident, Ramirez admits to being drunk and that she has gaps in her memory. Hmmm….
  • According to a story in The New Yorker, “she was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.” Hmmm….
  • The magazine reported that it took six days of “carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney” for Ramirez to go on record accusing Kavanaugh.” Hmmm…..
  • In case you’re wondering, Ramirez is a registered Democrat and sits on the board of a group called Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence. (In other words, she was already an activist. Not suspicious at all.)
  • The New York Times reported that Ramirez had contacted several of her former classmates to see if they remembered the incident because she could not be certain that Kavanaugh had been the perpetrator. Both the New York Times and CNN report that they have not been able to find any firsthand eyewitnesses to corroborate her story (just like all the witnesses denied knowing about Christine Blasey-Ford’s story).

Ed alert: “Why would we think it’s all lies? Gee, maybe because we caught Gloria Allred’s daughter offering to pay the mortgages on women’s houses if they made allegations against Trump…” How do we know this isn’t happening again?

And now there’s a third accuser, Julie Swetnick.

  • Two years older than Kavanaugh, Swetnick is grew up in the Washington D.C. suburbs but gives no reason for why she and Kavanaugh were at the same parties (although she claims to have attended “at least 10” parties with him back then).
  • In a statement posted on Twitter by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels’ lawyer…that’s not suspicious!), Swetnick says she observed Kavanaugh at parties where women were abused, inappropriately touched, made “disoriented” with alcohol or drugs and “gang raped.”
  • She said she witnessed Judge Kavanaugh participating in some of the misconduct, including lining up outside a bedroom where “numerous boys” were “waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.” She says she was one of the girls who was raped and believed she had been drugged. Ed alert: “She was raped at one of these parties, but she went to 10 of them?” Again, this one has “fabricated Democrat smear” written all over it.

Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh Hearings 

As for the first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, there are still no corroborations from the people she named in her Washington Post interview as witnesses to her alleged incident with Kavanaugh. But that didn’t stop the Democrats from babying her all morning on Thursday, and Kavanaugh’s passionate denials didn’t stop them from putting him through hell…lucky for all of us, Lindsey Graham has got his mojo back and he’s out to set them straight!

Get the hearing recap on this week’s show – and, check out Ed’s debut column this week in Townhall.

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The Main Event – September 21, 2018

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Kavanaugh Allegation Continues

Senate Republicans continue to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the fight against one woman’s suspiciously timed accusations of sexual assault from 35 years ago.

Here’s a recap of this week’s events:

  • On Monday, Christine Blasey Ford was reported to be the anonymous accuser from last week (when Dianne Feinstein sent a letter to the FBI the very day there was a confirmation vote scheduled – a letter she has had since July). Ford is now a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University.
  • Brett Kavanaugh’s statement: “This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or to anyone. Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday. I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity.”
  • In an interview with the Washington Post, Ford says that at a house party when she was 15 (no recollection of what month it was or even whose house it was at), Brett Kavanaugh and a friend pushed her into a bedroom, pinned her down and sexually assaulted her after turning up the music so her protests couldn’t be heard.
  • She identified the friend as Mark Judge, who is now a journalist and filmmaker. Judge’s statement to The Weekly Standard: “It’s just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way.” CNN and other mainstream media outlets are attacking Judge’s character by pointing out that he wrote a book about partying in high school called “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk” (so of course, he must be guilty of assault).
  • Another classmate Ford identifies as being at this mysterious party, Patrick J. Smyth, sent this letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee: “I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as ‘PJ’ who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post. I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh. Personally speaking, I have known Brett Kavanaugh since high school and I know him to be a person of great integrity, a great friend, and I have never witnessed any improper conduct by Brett Kavanaugh towards women.”

And now, Ed Whelan – a former law clerk for Justice Scalia who now runs the conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center – has uncovered evidence that the house where the party most likely took place was hosted by a kid who looked exactly like Brett Kavanaugh. Chris Garrett, a Georgetown prep classmate and football teammate of Kavanaugh’s, could have easily been mistaken for his classmate Brett.

  • After Diane Feinstein made the allegations against Kavanaugh public (despite Ford’s supposed wishes that they remain private), the Republicans on the Committee released a letter signed by 65 women who said they knew Kavanaugh in high school and could vouch for his decency. Ed alert: I have a hard time coming up with 65 women I went to high school with.” Scott agrees, saying there would likely be multiple accusers if Kavanaugh had done this.

Democrat Hypocrisy on Assault

As it turns out, plenty of Democrats have their own similar stories from high school and one of them is Cory “Spartacus” Booker. From the Washington Post on Friday:

When he was in high school, Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat and possible White House contender, groped his classmate as they kissed. He reached for her breast, and when she swatted his hand away, he made another attempt…

…But the skeleton in Booker’s closet seized on by outlets such as Fox News and the Daily Caller wasn’t really in his closet. The senator himself chose years ago to air the issue, marking a notable contrast with instances in which accusations of impropriety burst forth as a result of media investigation or opposition research. (Really? A “noble contrast”?)

In 1992, Booker, then a student at Stanford University, wrote a column for his college newspaper in which he recounted the groping and used his own behavior to underscore, in starkly personal terms, how his views had shifted on gender and sexual respect. He credited his work as a peer counselor with the transformation.

“After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my ‘mark,’” he wrote. “Our groping ended soon and while no ‘relationship’ ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn’t really know what she was doing.”
Booker’s words speak for themselves.

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