Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale suitemate, Kenneth Appold, has come forward to put his name to his account of trying and failing to give the FBI pertinent corroborating information on Deborah Ramirez’s allegation.
In a Wednesday New Yorker report, Appold said that he recalls with clarity hearing about Kavanaugh allegedly exposing himself to Ramirez very soon after it allegedly occurred.
“I can corroborate Debbie’s account,” he told the New Yorker. “I believe her, because it matches the same story I heard thirty-five years ago, although the two of us have never talked.”
Appold said that he reached out to the FBI but was met with silence, ultimately submitting his testimony through the agency’s internet portal.
Per the New Yorker, Appold is not the only former acquaintance of Kavanaugh’s to be stymied during the FBI investigation process.
A former Yale classmate, Stephen Kantrowitz, said of Kavanaugh’s freshman dorm: “No one who lived in Lawrance Hall (so far as I know) has been contacted by the FBI. What a charade.”
According to the New Yorker, two unnamed Georgetown Prep classmates submitted sworn statements to the FBI and Senate Judiciary Committee.
One of them went to his local FBI field office, but was turned away and never heard back. That classmate in particular disputes Kavanaugh’s allegations about his sobriety and sexual innocence at the time.
Per the New Yorker, an alumna of a high school close to Georgetown Prep named Angela Walker also submitted a statement in which she recalls being warned not to go upstairs where the bedrooms are at parties with Georgetown Prep boys, since it could be “dangerous.”
Yeah, it obviously wouldn’t have helped the whitewash if the FBI permission to actually talk to witnesses that weren’t preapproved by the GOP. Jesus, my stomach is already turning and it’s not even 8am yet.
One of the toughest spiritual tests of today is reading all these crimes against We The People of the USA, folks like you and me, and maintaining a peaceful happy demeanor. It’s a real challenge to the spirit and soul of any normal human, which excludes 98% of government officials in the USA.
Well, Appold can’t really corroborate Deborah Ramirez’s account. All he can say is that someone told him that the encounter had happened, soon after it is said to have taken place. That’s far from evidence that would be acceptable in court. Of course, this is not a trial and the rules of evidence do not apply but they are a good guide to relevance, and we should not stray too far from them just because we want a certain result.
I would like to assume that the FBI stonewalling is actually a GOP stonewall, although problematically may be that is the same thing now.
And, I am not surprised that conservatives would have a backlash to cultural change such as something like the #MeToo movement, which I believe the stonewalling encapsulates.
However, sea changes in culture are not stopped by conservative backlashes. And the basic injustice here has such clarity that this will more likely to further drive the #MeToo movement. We live in interesting times.
This investigation is a cover to get Kavanaugh in. Facts really have no consequences at this point. In fact, this is likely to drive up Republican’s popularity. It wouldnt matter even if Kavanaugh had raped someone.