Kavanaugh Knew About Ramirez Allegation Much Earlier Than He Says

New York Mag ^ | Oct. 1, 2018 | Jonathan Chait

[Jack Black]

During Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate testimony last week, Orrin Hatch asked the prospective Supreme Court justice, “When did you first hear of Ms. Ramirez’s allegations against you?” Kavanaugh replied, “In the last — in the period since then, the New Yorker story.” Hatch was referring to Deborah Ramirez’s charge that Kavanaugh humiliated her by waving his penis in her face while she was intoxicated. Kavanaugh appeared to be saying he heard of the charges after they appeared in The New Yorker in September.

NBC reports that this, like many things Kavanaugh said in his testimony, is false. Kavanaugh’s friends gathered testimony attempting to refute Ramirez’s allegations weeks before The New Yorker’s story was published. Some of the witnesses were contacted by people working on Kavanaugh’s behalf as early as July, according to text messages one witness has shared with the FBI.

This demonstrates to a near-certainty that Kavanaugh knew about the incident weeks before the story came to light. It is possible he had somehow heard about false charges being circulated in advance, worked to refute them, and then misled the Senate about when he heard about them. An alternative, more direct explanation would be that he worked to refute the charge because he knew about it from having actually done what he was accused of.

[Jack Black]

Is it? No one seemed to be able to place Obama at Columbia.

Ha ha ha! So true. But then Kavanaugh (at least, maybe not his accuser) did actually Go To Yale, I'm pretty sure. He didn't have whatever or whoever created the Obama cover story.

[Jack Black]

then why can’t you take one minute and search this site for the other threads on this exact same story that have been posted since yesterday with comments and links debunking it instead of posted yet another NEW thread about it?

I just pasted this part of the title "Kavanaugh Knew About Ramirez Allegation" into the title search box and only got my thread. Did the previous posters rename the threads (naughty, naughty), or did I mess up the FR search somehow.

Please go ahead and post the other links.

Thanks!

[CharlesWayneCT]

Actually, Brett K. explained this IN HIS TESTIMONY. He heard that this woman was trying to find “corroberation” for some story she wanted to tell, so he was trying to find out what it was, and to find people in college who would speak on his behalf.

He did not know exactly WHAT story she was going to tell, until she actually told it.

[upchuck]

Pardon me for being blunt, but... Kavanaugh Knew About Ramirez Allegation Much Earlier Than He Says.

Who cares? True or not, the claims will have little, if any, affect on the outcome. LET'S VOTE!