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Kavanaugh questioned about Rhode Island sexual assault allegation
The Hill ^ | 09/26/18 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 09/26/2018 5:37:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was questioned during a phone call with Judiciary Committee staff about an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in Rhode Island in the mid-1980s.

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (R.I.) office received a phone call on Tuesday morning "making allegations concerning a rape on a boat in August of 1985," according to transcripts of a call between committee staff and Kavanaugh released on Wednesday.

The allegation, given to Whitehouse's staff and read on the call with Kavanaugh, claims that in August 1985 a "close acquaintance" of a Rhode Island constituent "was sexually assaulted by two heavily inebriated men she referred to at the time as Brett and Mark."

Kavanaugh strongly denied the allegation on the Tuesday call with Judiciary Committee staffers and called it "completely made up."

"I was not in Newport, haven't been on a boat in Newport. Not with Mark Judge on a boat, nor all those three things combined. This is just completely made up, or at least not me. I don't know what they're referring to," Kavanaugh told committee staffers, according to the transcript.

Kavanaugh's friend Judge has previously been implicated as present during a separate alleged sexual assault charge against Kavanaugh.

Spokesmen for GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for Whitehouse declined to comment.

The constituent that called Whitehouse's office said they confronted the two men involved in the alleged incident on the morning that it happened.

The constituent realized that Kavanaugh was one of the men allegedly involved "when he saw Kavanaugh's high school yearbook photo on television over the weekend," according to the transcript released on Wednesday.

Kavanaugh added during the call with Judiciary Committee staffers that he has never sexually assaulted a woman in Rhode Island and that he had no knowledge of the boat where the alleged incident took place. He has previously said on television that he has never sexually assaulted anyone.

Committee staffers questioned Kavanaugh about multiple alleged incidents during the call, including allegations from Deborah Ramirez, who alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during their time at Yale.

They also questioned him about an anonymous complaint alleging he physically assaulted a woman in 1998, according to a transcript from phone calls this week.

Kavanaugh has denied wrongdoing in each of the incidents. The alleged Rhode Island incident is the fifth known allegation related to Kavanaugh.

Senators say they've received claims of multiple alleged incidents, ranging in credibility and brought to their staffs attention.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), recalling how his staff found out about Ramirez's allegation, told reporters that "people call with rumors."

"Some of these are completely incredible and the staff dismisses it," he said. "I asked the same thing [about the Ramirez allegation], 'why didn't you tell me this,' they said 'do you know how many calls we get.'"

Grassley told reporters on Wednesday that his committee looks into any allegation about Kavanugh brought to their attention as long as they can find the name of the accuser or the lawyer.

"All I can tell you is we’re handling it exactly like we've handled every newspaper report or everybody contacting our office or anonymous even, if we can get the name and or the lawyer we've followed up with the usual staff interrogation,” Grassley said, when asked about the allegations released by the third accuser's lawyer, Michael Avenatti.


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1 posted on 09/26/2018 5:37:37 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The rats are scum plain and simple real scum!


2 posted on 09/26/2018 5:39:17 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: yesthatjallen

Rumor control is going wild. Every nut in the country will be calling in with a claim.


3 posted on 09/26/2018 5:39:17 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: yesthatjallen

A fifth accuser?

I can’t wait til tomorrow!


4 posted on 09/26/2018 5:40:14 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

Durbin s statement is telling


5 posted on 09/26/2018 5:40:17 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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The accuser from Rhode Island said, quote: "Dear Pentagon, please save my country from the parasite that occupies the White House. Our you waiting until Russians parachute in like in Red Dawn? Please help!" He also literally accused Donald Trump of some unsolved murder.

He's already recanted everyone on Twitter. You can tell he's a TOTAL nutjob there too. This is a non-story.

6 posted on 09/26/2018 5:40:20 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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Gawd, I hate those filthy rats.


7 posted on 09/26/2018 5:40:32 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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To: Trump20162020

*recanted everything


8 posted on 09/26/2018 5:40:45 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: yesthatjallen

I have read that this man has withdrawn his accusation.


9 posted on 09/26/2018 5:41:15 PM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: Parley Baer

are we now at 5 accusers?


10 posted on 09/26/2018 5:41:30 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: yesthatjallen

By tonight Kavanaugh will be accused of being Osama Bin Laden


11 posted on 09/26/2018 5:42:35 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

This guy with this false accusation just recanted. They call him deranged. His tweet was: “

Dear Pentagon,
Please save my country from the parasite that occupies the White house? Our you waiting until Russians parachute in like in Red Dawn ? Please help! !!!!!!!!!!
3:09 AM - 9 Jul 2018

He just apologized:

Jeffrey Catalan
@JeffreyCatala16
49m49 minutes ago

Do everyone who is going crazy about what I had said I have recanted because I have made a mistake and apologize for such mistake


12 posted on 09/26/2018 5:42:37 PM PDT by plushaye (Kat Kerr Presidential Prophecy: Trump (2 terms), Pence (2 terms), Pence's VP (2 terms))
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To: yesthatjallen

Sheldon Whitehouse is like Eddie Haskell with zippo IQ. Little Rhody is completely dependent on tax dollars for their income. Dumbest Voters on the planet.


13 posted on 09/26/2018 5:42:40 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: yesthatjallen

So where are we with all of this?

We have the high school kids rolling around on a bed, college kids horsing around and a drink girl said she penis was in her face, Kavanaugh was involved with rape rooms, and Kavanaugh raped a girl on a boat.

Any others?

I know liberals believe all this horse*+$+, but how much is really believeable, to any who are halfway discerning and fsir and balanced in hearing all this?

And liberals hate to hear this, but was any of this ever reported to any law enforcement at the times these events allegedly happened?

I really wonder about the rape rooms, because if numerous girls were getting raped on a regular basis, it strains credulity that none of the numerous girls ever reported anything.


14 posted on 09/26/2018 5:42:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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“The constituent realized that Kavanaugh was one of the men allegedly involved “when he saw Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook photo on television over the weekend...”

Another shark jumped. :-D


15 posted on 09/26/2018 5:43:16 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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i'm tellin ya, accusations of snuff flix are next, it's all they got left
16 posted on 09/26/2018 5:43:29 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: yesthatjallen

I urge everyone to immediately call your Democrat Senator or Congresswoman now and report how you were raped or molested by Brett Kavanaugh.


17 posted on 09/26/2018 5:43:56 PM PDT by PGR88
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The Rhode Island allegation is only in the news because it was brought up in a Senate attorney's interview with Kavanaugh yesterday. That was easily debunked because the details were too precise and easy to refute (paraphrasing):

ATTORNEY: "Judge Kavanaugh, did you and a man named Mark ever sexually assault a woman on a boat in the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island in 1985?"

KAVANAUGH: "I've never been on a boat in the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island at any time -- with or without someone named Mark."

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), recalling how his staff found out about Ramirez's allegation, told reporters that "people call with rumors."

This may well be Kavanaugh's salvation. Because Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge were the only ones named in Buzzy Ford's original letter to Feinstein, all of these crazy women are crawling out of the woodwork and making allegations where they only identify THESE TWO by name.

18 posted on 09/26/2018 5:44:05 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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To: yesthatjallen

A friend of my neighbor’s niece says he can’t get it up and wears girls panties.


19 posted on 09/26/2018 5:44:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I am waiting for nervous sheep to be brought bleating in.


20 posted on 09/26/2018 5:44:45 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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