Virginia Lt. Gov. accusers say they will testify if state has impeachment proceedings

NBC News ^ | February 9, 2019 | Phil McCausland and Kalhan Rosenblatt

[conservative98]

The two women who have accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault said late Saturday that they are willing to testify if the state General Assembly launches impeachment proceedings against him.

Nancy Erika Smith, an attorney for Meredith Watson, called for "real due process, not hidden from the public," according to a statement.

Watson claims she was raped by Fairfax while they were students at Duke University in 2000, and Virginia Tyson has accused Fairfax of forcing her to perform oral sex in 2004 while they were both at the Democratic Convention in Boston.

Fairfax denies the accusations and says he will remain in office, and he has called for an FBI investigation into the claims.

Smith said Fairfax's request for an investigation is insufficient because the FBI does not normally have jurisdiction over these types of allegations.

"We will provide at least two witnesses whom Ms. Watson told of the assault the day after Fairfax raped her," Smith said in the statement. "We will also produce documentary evidence of Ms. Watson revealing to others the fact that Fairfax raped her."

Tyson's attorneys, Debra S. Katz and Lisa J. Banks, said their client would also testify against Fairfax in any impeachment proceedings.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m surprised no dick pix have shown up yet. He seems like the sort who might be full enough of himself to send them.

[marajade]

One of the victims said she is willing to talk to law enforcement.

[marajade]

If I had ever been a victim of sexual misconduct I can see why a victim would not want to put themselves through the process of reporting it to law enforcement.

This man is the top law enforcement official in the State of VA. This man has a lot of power.

The truth will be outed. That is a good thing.

[marajade]

In one of the victim’s case it was worse. One of the victim’s claimed he grabbed her by the neck and pulled her head toward his penis and directed her to perform oral sex.

[marajade]

Thank God for Mazie Hirono. The gift that keeps on giving.

[tflabo]

Not that I side with this DemRat but now these offended women come out of the woodwork? Are they wanting some fame and a payday? On the flip side if this hubbub causes black people to flee from the DemoRats then wagons ho.

[marajade]

Maybe they just want to tell their story.

[Liz]

Enough....I believe her already, just give him the chair!

Amen.

[Carry me back]

Agree, if he did it, they should take him to court.

[Carry me back]

NC has no limitations.

[Carry me back]

Do the Dems want to see the Republicans all vote against the black guy ? Interesting dynamics going on.

[Liz]

Good point.

Where IS Democrat Sen Hirono ---- who told Men to ‘Shut Up’ and Believe the Accuser of Justice Kav?

CIRCA 2018--Senator Hirono Didn’t Always Tell Men to ‘Shut Up’ and Believe Accusers
Ntl Review By JOHN FUND, September 23, 2018

Hirono made some truly remarkable statements last week. “Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed,” she insisted. She added, “I just want to say to the men in this country: Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change.” When the Wall Street Journal editorial page pointed out that her statements suggest that the “new American standard of due process will be the presumption of guilt,” she went further. Appearing on CNN on Sunday, Hirono said that Kavanaugh’s basic integrity had been undermined, in her eyes, during his confirmation hearings: He’s very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to be fair.

In other words, Kavanaugh was less believable in her eyes because of what she assumed his political views were. She even went on to imply that the mere allegation against Kavanaugh, even without any evidence to support it, had already damaged his credibility beyond repair: We already have one person who got to the Supreme Court under this cloud. We shouldn’t have another.

It would be too easy to suggest that Hirono was flirting with McCarthyism in her brazen comments. She is actually flirting with medieval standards of justice, when those in power arbitrarily decided who was telling the truth and who was a traitor.

.......spare us the hyper-moralizing speeches, the condemnation of half the human species simply because they are male, and the insistence that women who say they’ve suffered sexual assault must automatically be believed.

Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted when Bill Clinton’s predations were in the news in the late 1990s, she was AWOL.

Hirono’s involvement in the effort to sink the Kavanaugh nomination is nakedly political. She told Politico last Tuesday that she may try to derail for as long as two years any future Trump appointment. “I think we’ve had those kinds of vacancies before, and we certainly had over a one-year vacancy with Merrick Garland,” Hirono said. “So the world does not come to an end because we don’t fill all of the nominees.” Perhaps not, but if Senator Hirono’s radical new standard of political and legal due process — presumption of guilt — gains traction through the Kavanaugh hearings, an essential bulwark of our legal system could be demolished.

SOURCE https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/mazie-hirono-believe-accusers-not-stance-for-daniel-inouye/

[tflabo]

Carlos Danger aka Anthony Weiner got a prison sentence for far less egregious matter than these accusations against Fairfax.

[gcparent]

I feel bad for anyone falsely accused. And what’s the rush with starting impeachment Monday. This happened supposedly 14 and 19 years ago!

They stopped talking yearbook kkk and blackface photos. Mission accomplished

[Liz]

Excellent point.

[gcparent]

Didn’t they involve minors?

[gcparent]

And were reported soon after.

I hate Crystal Magnum, but she did make her false report within hours.

[gcparent]

Either of these 2 women go to the hospital or file a police report within a reasonable amount of time? No. Like Dr. Fraud when read article guy might get promoted.

[cnsmom]

Fairfax May have assulted these women but I don’t think Northam is a racist given his upbringing.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

At the same time I do not dismiss either accusation as false
If either/both were victims of a sexual assault by Fairfax, he should be held to account

The legal process has been destroyed by politics in these matters
It is no longer abt the truth, but political agendas