Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent a letter to the FBI asking the bureau to investigate death threats against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
“Americans are closely watching. We strongly believe that how Dr. Blasey Ford is treated in this moment reflects upon how seriously our Nation treats credible claims of sexual assault, and whether we have learned from past mistakes. We expect the Bureau to live up to its stated mission, ‘to protect the American people’ and to promptly investigate these criminal allegations,” Democrats wrote in the letter requesting a probe into several potential crimes.
Read the letter:
If you had lived thru the #MeToo movement for almost 2 years, would you have nominated somebody with a sexual misconduct problem? If all you had worked for, all the Trump crap you had to eat, wouldn’t you make sure your candidate didn’t have certain skeletons? What a monstrous self-own. They had their magical, decades long goal in sight. This was perhaps the ONLY thing that could torpedo it. THE ONLY THING.
I know people have advanced the theory that Kavanaugh was groomed and there are some very near term cases he was designed to vote for. I doubt somehow, tho, that any of the other viable candidates would have gone against the Rs on those cases anyways. So what gives? All their candidates have sex scandals and K was the best shot?
I am stunned at how this has been an arrow straight to the R’s Achilles Heel. Blasey Ford appears to be playing this JUST right and not rushing into their clutches, playing rope-a-dope and dancing just out of their reach while the media beats all this to a froth. If she had gone along with their gag-and-bag plan this could have, like so many stories, just gone off with a whimper while the latest Chump tantrums asphyxiate all other news.
The word is that McConnell warned Trump that Kavanaugh was the biggest risk on his list because of his ‘paper trail’, but I have wondered recently if this event was what he really meant. After all, he basically lied through his teeth about his past while the GOP blatantly withheld nearly all of his potentially inflammatory documents, and I think everything was on track anyway. Add to that the speed with which the ‘letter from 65’ came out once the accusations were made public, and it looks like this was their worry from the beginning.
What amazes me is that they let Trump do this. I guess once you’ve been on your knees long enough, standing up gets to be hard.
Yeah, I think if he gets charged with any of that lying or past misdeeds he can be jerked from the court?
Just caught Jennifer Mascott on PBS Newshour, she clerked for Kavanaugh and Thomas. She talked about his integrity, and how many opinions he wrote, and blah, blah, blah. All very what an clerk would say about her former boss. Why don’t they get it? It’s not about the prick that he is, it’s about the asshole he was in High School. Unless they get people that knew him in High School to talk in front of the committee about how he was then, then it doesn’t count now. Reading about the prep school, his fraternity, his preference to only hire female clerks if they look like models, and his time when he clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski and the shenanigans that went on in that office have all contributed to who he is now. Man it was the mid 80s and everyone want to forget how that went.
Might as well investigate the entire Oval Trailer at the same time, and go for the bulk discount…