Posted on 09/22/2018 8:52:21 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, says she does not know the Supreme Court nominee or remember attending a party with him.
Leland Keyser, who characterized herself as a friend of Ford's, said through a lawyer that she "does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.”
Keyser's statement—which was circulated by the White House and given to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday night—comes as Republican Senate staffers have been working to identify and interview potential witnesses to the alleged incident.
Ford alleges that Kavanaugh pinned her down to a bed, tried to remove her clothes and covered her mouth when she tried to protest at a high school party in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh has denied wrongdoing and asked to testify to clear his name.
Senate staffers, according to CNN, reached out to Keyser this week.
Ford told The Washington Post that Keyser was at the party. Though Keyser says she has "no recollection" of being at a party that Kavanaugh attended, she told The Post that she believes Ford's allegation.
Debra Katz, a lawyer for Ford, dismissed Keyser not remembering noting that Ford did not discuss the alleged incident publicly for years.
“It’s not surprising that Ms Keyser has no recollection of the evening as they did not discuss it. It’s also unremarkable that Ms. Keyser does not remember attending a specific gathering 30 years ago at which nothing of consequence happened to her," Katz added in a statement to NBC News.
But the White House immediately seized on the statement, adding Keyser was the latest individual who did not remember the party where Ford says the alleged sexual assault happened.
“One week ago, Dr. Christine Ford claimed she was assaulted at a house party attended by four others. Since then, all four of these individuals have provided statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying any knowledge of the incident or even having attended such a party," Kerri Kupec, a spokeswoman for the White House, said in a statement.
Ford will “feel threatened” by this, and demand another few days of delay, maybe a week or two.
This story has already been posted numerous times. But that’s ok, I love reading good news late at night.
The comedy sh!tshow shall continue.
A duplicate post but reassuring that it is getting lots of coverage. What is Dr. Ford’s gameplan when everyone says nothing happened?
What about Chris Garrett? Seems the party may have been hosted at his parent’s house. Yet to hear anything from him. Just the tweets from Ed Whelan. Suspect there is lots more coming from that. Any thoughts?
That’s it, Keyser, you are not allowed in the room either!
She needs to go to Ford’s psychologist.
She’ll remember everything about this case and more.
Whelan issued a sincere apology for his Twitter storm but didn't recant one element of his theory. Ten bucks says Garrett has been working with Whelan all along.
This started out as Diane Feinsteins secret escapade. I honestly believe she dropped this just as a delay tactic as well as character assassination and that would be it. But it didn’t go well, she looked foolish with some liberals even criticizing her. She then outed her to save face and it has morphed into where we are now.
Like the victim, the witness doesn't remember anything, but believes an attempted rape happened.
UNREAL.
This story has already been posted numerous times. But that’s ok, I love reading good news late at night.
The comedy sh!tshow shall continue.
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Yes, but this one does its best to throw shade on the whole thing, mischaracterizes what the “girlfriend” said through her attorney and implies that the White House is the source for this story.
The lame stream organs are running scared now. And that is good to see.
The key difference being that one statement was made under oath, and one is being reported by the WP.
Did the WP ever attempt to reconcile what appear to be conflicting statements? Of course not. They’re just stenographers.
Like the victim, the witness doesn’t remember anything, but believes an attempted rape happened.
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Her saying she believed it was NOT in her statement delivered by her attorney! The writer is desperately trying to mislead!
bttt
“:^)
I agree! Whelan is/was an attorney, he has a fairly high-profile role, and doesn’t seem like someone to throw BS out, especially to name a someone specific that is otherwise not in the public spotlight. Combined with absolute silence from Chris Garrett and from the press, I suspect there is more here to come. Curious about the MSM that they’ve completely ignored this and him. Not touching it.
“What good is Leland Keyser as a witness if she didn’t witness anything?”
If Ford said she was there in her letter and Keyser denies it and also says she doesn’t know Kavanaugh it further undercuts Ford’s letter.
It could have been a set up.
This is flat out slander.
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