Posted on 10/01/2018 3:40:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A mutual friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Deborah Ramirez, one of his sexual misconduct accusers, has asked the FBI to investigate text messages that Kavanaugh and his allies sent to friends before her story was made public.
Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale when Kavanaugh is accused of exposing himself to Ramirez, emailed FBI agent J.C. McDonough asking the agency to review those messages as part of its reopened background investigation of Kavanaugh, NBC News reported Monday.
NBC reported that text messages between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, a friend of Kavanaugh, suggest the high court nominee was discussing Ramirez's accusations with former classmates before the publication of a New Yorker piece about the allegations. Yarasavage reportedly said in one message that Kavanaugh tried getting her to publicly defend him.
Berchem told NBC News in a statement that she hasn't drawn conclusions about the messages but believes "they merit investigation by the FBI and the Senate."
“I understand that President Trump and the U.S. Senate have ordered an FBI investigation into certain allegations of sexual misconduct by the nominee Brett Kavanaugh. I have no direct or indirect knowledge about any of the allegations against him," Berchem said.
"However, I am in receipt of text messages from a mutual friend of both Debbie and mine that raise questions related to the allegations. I have not drawn any conclusions as to what the texts may mean or may not mean but I do believe they merit investigation by the FBI and the Senate," she added.
Ramirez told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh pushed his exposed genitals into her face during a party in their freshman year at Yale. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, as well as separate accusations of sexual misconduct made by Christine Blasey Ford and Julie Swetnick.
NBC News reported that the memo Berchem sent to McDonough, the FBI agent, indicates that there are multiple friends of Kavanaugh who haven't yet been but interviewed but who may have information about the alleged incident.
While under oath, Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Panel that the first time he heard of Ramirez's story was from The New Yorker article.
Berchem told NBC News that she resent her memo on Monday to McDonough because she hadn't yet heard back from him.
“I’m sure he’s really busy and expect that he’ll get back to me,” Berchem said.
Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was approved in the Judiciary Committee on Friday in a party-line vote. But Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) called for an FBI investigation into the new allegations to take place before the full Senate votes on Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
President Trump announced Friday that he would ask the FBI to conduct a new investigation into Kavanaugh focusing on the accusations.
The White House on Monday authorized the FBI to expand the investigation from an initial limited list of witnesses to anyone deemed appropriate.
Clearly someone has created some bogus text messages and post dated them. I’m sure it can be done.
Either that or they are confused on the timing. I’m betting though that if NBC is running it, it’s bad for Kavanaugh, as they see it.
It’s also possible Kavanaugh’s team was tipped to the story before it came out and they tried to find people who could refute it.
One thing for sure, this entire week is about nothing more than putting enough additional smear out there, that Flake , Collins, Muskowski and even other republicans can say. There’s so many charges out there, I can’t in good conscience vote for him to sit on the SCOTUS.
I hope I’m wrong, I’m a self admitted pessimist, but I think in the end the dems will win. They are hoping they can steal the senate in November & Donald J Trump will not be able to put another judge on the SCOTUS, unless he’s reelected in 2020
Supposedly, this was a recent text between them discussing what happened in the 80’s.
She’s not a friend, just some bitch at Yale with him. No true friend would throw you under the bus, in what is clearly an obvious smear campaign by the democraps
Maybe Grassley can refer them for possible prosecution like he did the boat man.
That hyena fit was so staged/planned! Probably by Snowflake himself.
What a loser that guy is.
Friend of a slut of another slut
I wish I had tons of money so I could hire someone to ivestigate the accusers. Swetnik, Rameriz, Ford and now the 2 email hacks.
Per her lawyer and the NYer article, they were playing a drinking game and she was extremely inebriated. In her lawyer's words, "she was on the floor, foggy and slurring her words". That should end all credibility right there.
So, the New Yorker contacted him for a response to an allegation which would appear in an upcoming article.
here is the transcript
HATCH: When did you first hear of Ms. Ramirez’s allegations against you?
KAVANAUGH: In the last — in the period since then, the New Yorker story.
HATCH: Did the Ranking Member or any of her colleagues or any of their staffs ask you about Ms. Ramirez’s allegations before they were leaked to the press?
KAVANAUGH: No.
HATCH: When was the first time that the ranking member or any of her colleagues or any of their staff asked you about Ms. Ramirez’s allegations?
KAVANAUGH: Today.
This is nonsense, Kavanaugh is quoted in the NYer denying the allegation. He knew about it before it was published.
The guy already submitted a statement to the F-I identifying the person at Yale who was exposing himself to gals that year ... And it wasn’t Judge K
Please make it stop.
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This is what that extra week was for, and Flake knew exactly what they would do.
OF COURSE Kavanaugh knew of the allegations from Ramirez, DUH..his statement is in the NEW YORKER ARTICLE LOL..what they also missed to report(Surprise surprise, NOT) is that Ramirez HERSELF was calling friends to verify her claim
You’re misstating - he was questioned about it under oath last week. Then, at the hearing, he was asked if DiChi or her staff asked questions - they didn’t / hadn’t until he was at the hearing on Thursday.
I thought I heard that...she was trying to worm her way out of her original comment?
These three women..(i use that word with tongue in cheek!!) should all be put under OATH with out notes and with out lawyers.. they all three made up FAIRY TALES AND LIES under the coaching and control of DemocRATS..THIS IS DEMOCRATS MODE OF OPERATION,,,ONE DAY DOWN THE ROAD when the shoe is on the other foot..will republicans do the same treatment to them??? of course not..Republicans are pussies and weak Kneed.
This Judge deserves to be on the Supreme Court and He will be confirmed...time to send a LOUD AND CLEAR MESSAGE in November to democrats...SHUT UP AND GO SIT DOWN...WE ARE IN CONTROL...
Is from another transcript other than his testimony that we all saw on thurs ?
Because the “accusation” is that he claimed that he “read it in the NYer” but was texting people before hand.
But he obviously knwe about the story before that because he was published in the story denying it.
Well, our side has lots of million and billion-aires. Where is the money like Soros to help defend a nominee?
Peter Thiel, Adelson, Carl Icahn. Crickets.
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