Kavanaugh nomination: Judge says he is victim of 'character assassination' as third woman comes forw

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Kavanaugh nomination: Judge says he is victim of ‘character assassination’ as third woman comes forward

By John Wagner

September 26 at 12:33 PM

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh is scheduled to appear Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a high-stakes hearing. The committee will hear from Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who says President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her when both were teenagers.

Lawmakers from both parties and lawyers for Kavanaugh and Ford maneuvered for advantage on the eve of the hearing, and President Trump weighed in on the fate of his nominee.

12:15 p.m. Kavanaugh says he is victim of ‘obvious character assassination’

In his prepared testimony for Thursday’s Senate hearing, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh says he was ‘not perfect’ in high school and drank beer with friends but strongly denies having committed sexual assault.

“In retrospect, I said and did things in high school that make me cringe now,” he says, adding that “sometimes I had too many” when he drank beer.

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[SHRED]

1. And the character who did the assassination is himself

[calimary]

2. Fuck you, Kavanaugh.

[forgotmylogin]

40. Aw, poor Kavanaugh's "character" is being assassinated.

He thinks his "character" is more important than the that of those girls he waited in line for.

[calimary]

46. And he certainly thinks his "character" is more important than the women with crisis pregnancies

who, thanks to him, may have to go a back-alley butcher to get an abortion. Too many of them will die from that.

[Iliyah]

3. Plus he was a virgin . . .

To me, GOPers have proven that they don't give a damn about other people's love ones, only, maybe their own.

They are truly a fucked group of people.

[efhmc]

4. Easy enough to prove.

Let the FBI investigate.

[DBoon]

5. It can't be "character assassination"

What little "character" he had died long ago.

[FakeNoose]

44. Yep - let's ask Bill Clinton about character assassination

Brett Kavanaugh and Kenneth Starr had no mercy for him! And what they told were mostly lies, while this stuff coming out now is the absolute truth.

[csziggy]

49. Kavanuagh's character committed suicide long ago! nt

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. Hey kavboy - so you remember NOW???

“In retrospect, I said and did things in high school that make me cringe now,” - your soon not to be judgeship, you have NO judgement...you are a lying, piece of excrement..fess up -

[PSPS]

22. Yes, a definite walk-back. He earlier said none of it was true.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. THIS

He presented himself on Faux as an

[calimary]

47. So was he lying then or is he lying now?

Which is it?

[Solly Mack]

7. Same song, different jerk.

[maxsolomon]

8. Boo hoo. Boo hoo hoo hoo.

Ah, the irony of a trained professional Character Assassin, hoist by his own petard.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. i was going to say that :)

[thegoose]

9. Faux Nooz Judge

Dumpster's Slimeball needs to withdraw now!

[ffr]

10. For Kavanaugh, I think this only gets worse each passing day. He should withdraw.

For his daughter's sake.

Oh wait, he doesn't give a shit about women.

I guess it'll just continue to get worse for him and his daughters will probably never be able to look at him the same way again.

[Jim__]

11. Yes, poor Brett is the victim.

Even if he raped those women, my god, it was thirty-five years ago. They're ruining his life.

[appalachiablue]

12. Cry me a river. Liar, abuser and fraud.

[getagrip_already]

13. It's a character suicide... but then again

He seems to have a lot of trouble distinguishing the two.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

14. You shouldn't even be allowed to hold your current job.

You should be charged with rape you disgraceful peice of human garbage.

[Botany]

15. "Judge says he is victim of 'character assassination' ...."

Tell that to vince Foster's family you shit.

[watoos]

16. I thought you said

that you just studied? Were you studying which unsuspecting girl's drink to spike?

[SunSeeker]

17. You assassinated your own character, you privileged little shitstain.

[Samspadesnark]

18. His sense of personal entitlement

Is gargantuan, and continues to prove he is totally lacking in the judicial temperament required for any judicial position, let alone this one. Like Trump, he damages himself even further every time he opens his mouth. And also like Trump, he has absolutely no problem in publicly assaulting the character of any and every person he considers as inferior to himself, or who stands in his way of achieving ultimate power. He is not fit to be a municipal traffic court judge.

[George II]

20. He assassinated his own character when he participated in gang rape and sexual abuse.

[B Stieg]

21. Typical. The next claim...

will be that he "only" watched.

It's a slippery slope, to be sure.

REGISTER and VOTE!

[RockRaven]

23. People with multiple government jobs, multiple security clearances don't sign sworn affidavits

willy-nilly. They know what the penalties are for lying in such documents. They don't sign them unless they are sure the contents are true.

Kavanaugh is using the term character assassination as if it categorically implies falsity or injustice. If your character is awful enough to be deserving of it, it can be assassinated by the truth.

[Kablooie]

24. Ah! Now he's trying to change his denial to "I wasn't THAT bad."

Which makes his previous statements lies.

He's cracking.

[Rizen]

25. If Republicans were inocent...

like Trump and Kavanaugh, why are they so afraid of FBI investigations?

[niyad]

26. to john wagner: if you use "judge" k, then you use DR. Christine Blasey Ford.

Even in the WaPo, women's titles are frequently ignored. this blatant sexism pisses me off.

[Maxheader]

27. A little over the top at times..eh brett?

Is that how you'll work the bench as a supreme?

[The Liberal Lion]

28. Time and time again we find republicans to be little more than pure scum

I'm not saying anything new here. The republican party in it's current iteration is no more than criminal, treasonous scum. What i don't understand is how many liberals and progressives still believe it's possible to share power with this party of pus. Everything about the republican and those who vote for them disgust me to my core.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

29. He's the victim of his own lies. His past and his character are catching-up to him. nt

[Calista241]

30. I find it unfathomable that this wasn't uncovered during Kav's many background checks.

I've been interviewed twice by the FBI on a two different childhood friends background checks. One of them i was fairly close to when i was 13-16 years old. Another one I barely knew, but she was technically in the same grade as me in high school and lived a few streets over.

The idea that they were systematically gang raping classmates / others on a semi-regular basis, and that this didn't come up in his background checks is just unbelievable.

Kavanaugh is a bad person, he's bad for the Supreme Court, and bad for America; but I'm not sure how much I believe this latest allegation.

[olegramps]

39. When you investigate you have to take off the blinders and this case a blindfold.

People have to come to the realization that this country in being run by the privileged. The high school that Kavanaugh attended cost about $37,000 a year for a day student and $60,000 for boarding students. These schools prepare their charges for near automatic acceptance in the top rated universities. It is also not unusual that these kids are educated in primary schools that cost up to $20,000 a year. These kids have access to tutors and even travel companions while enjoying extended travel throughout the world to broaden their education. I have relatives, two, who taught at these schools. These kids have unlimited funds and very little supervision. Every weekend and summer night is party time with the days dedicated to curing hangovers. Its a world that the vast majority can not even comprehend. Kids with four, five six hundred dollars pocket money. They knew of kids that were given $200,000.00 party boats for their graduation. Its a world that we can't even comprehend. Kavanaugh's appearance on FOX was a total scam.

[Calista241]

42. It's a big leap to go from "he's a spoiled rich brat douchebag" to "he and his friend Mark Judge

and a shitload of other guys systematically gang-raped women they went to school with."

I grew up in an upper middle class housing area. My friends that later got security clearances (I am assuming they passed as the FBI doesn't update you on their status), grew up in that same area. I saw them both at a reunion a few years ago, and both of them were working for the federal gov't, though I never mentioned the FBI came to see me.

When the FBI came to talk to me, it was not a good ole boy or girl conversation. It was a "holy fucking shit I'm talking to the FBI about important shit" recorded, legal, do i need my own lawyer type investigation. And it was extremely thorough. They asked me about events they'd heard about from other interviewees. They knew about one night where my friends and I went and stole a hundred or so realtor yard signs so we could put all of them in another friend's yard. They also knew about a car accident (he hit his parent's brick mailbox with his door open cause he was an idiot) that wasn't reported to the police at the time.

Now if they knew about shit like that, I can't imagine they didn't uncover the whole gang rape club that was apparently no big deal to the people that participated and the others that knew about it.

[meadowlander]

31. Isn't the point that if he had too many, he doesn't remember if he committed sexual assault or not.

Having certainty about things he can't have certainty about and then lying to Congress about them are (or should be) absolutely disqualifying characteristics for any judge, let alone a Supreme Court Justice.

[beachbum bob]

32. reinforces the need for the FBI to do the required background check even more. If my reputation

was going thru the crapper I would be screaming please INVESTIGATE. put people on the record.....

[marieo1]

33. character assassination

Character assassination is exactly what Kavanaugh and other rep are doing to the victims of these sexual assaults. The victims are highly successful in their own careers and lives. The republicans and Kavanaugh are trying to destroy their credibility, professionalism and careers. Kavanaugh and the republicans are the ones doing the character assassination!! By the way, is Kavanaugh an alcoholic? Is he fit to be one of the leaders of our country. DJT isn't and we are stuck with him!!

[jmowreader]

34. Kavanaugh would certainly know what character assassination looks like

If the Republicans would quit using their Bibles to beat people’s heads and open them, they’d find this passage from Galatians VI: Whatsoever a man Soweth, that he shall also reap.

Kavanaugh is a professional character assassin. I didn’t know they even had that job, but if you need someone’s reputation dragged through the mud for no reason, or you want someone out of the way and you want them to regret for life ever having blocked you, there’s only one name to call. The most disgusting part of this whole sordid affair isn’t what he did to women or any other allegation brought forth against him, it’s that the stupid man we have pretending to be president if he isn’t playing golf or embarrassing the country with his phone would believe the proper reward for destroying the lives of Vince Foster’s family is a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

[matt819]

35. It's not character assassination

It's not character assassination if it's true.

It's character description.

[TryLogic]

37. Character assassination? No, character clarification.

[haele]

38. So, it's only character assassnation when it's done to you, Brett-boyo?

You are apparently entitled to slime and insinuate all sorts of deviance concerning others, and judge their "moral failings" until their dying days and after (see: Vince Foster), but should anyone simply hold a mirror up to your nasty ass and point out actual things that you did, it's suddenly horribly unjust lies and evil insinuation.

You, sir, are a nasty elitist pervert. A whitened sepulcher of a man, concealing rotting vice and disease.

Haele

[ProfessorGAC]

41. It's Only Character Assassination. . .

. . .when the character being impugned is of high quality.

Can't assassinate a character of the man with no character.

[BigDemVoter]

43. Life is unfair, you pathetic piece of shit.

[Journeyman]

45. "Character definition." That's the word he was looking for . . .

[YOHABLO]

48. This is a job interview not for cashier at Hobby Lobby but for SCOTUS ..character matters.