Posted on 09/19/2018 4:43:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A former classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was identified as the man in the room during the alleged sexual assault, denies any knowledge of the party in question or any inappropriate conduct by Kavanaugh.
Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly groping her while his friend was in the room at a high school party over three decades ago.
Patrick J. Smyth, who was a classmate of Kavanaughs at Georgetown Prep, was identified as the friend PJ in Fords account of the allegations.
Smyths lawyer Eric Bruce wrote a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., claiming his client did not witness or know of any improper conduct by Kavanaugh.
"I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as 'PJ' who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post," Smyth says in his statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, CNN reported. "I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh."
The letter is expected to be sent to Grassley and Feinstein Wednesday.
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the timing is the thing.
We are approaching early voting for the midterm elections.
The Democrats’ goals are to block the nomination until after the election (or at least the election has started, get those votes in the ballot box), block the release of the unredacted silent coup messages from the “Russia investigation”, and block the sentencing of Mannafort until after the election (this has already been done).
A sexual assault victim tells her female friends, her parents and the police about it.
No way a crime is buried for forty years. Thats the troubling aspect about it.
And no matter what Christine Ford says, there is no evidence.
If I were Kavanaugh, I’d go into hiding before the vote. The demodummies will not hesitate to keep him off the SCOTUS and a “permanent” removal may still be in their playbook having run out of all options.
Kavanaugh doesnt strike me as the frat boy type.
65 women friends wrote about his good character.
Only Ford has accused him of pushing himself on her.
Either someone is lying or Kavanaugh and his friends are perpetrating a conspiracy to hide the truth.
Cant have it both ways.
OK, so 35 years ago at a teenage summer drinking party he touched her boobies. I am so glad my life is not judged by what I did at summer drinking parties when I was 17.....
Thats not a crime.
Every teenage boy since the beginning of time has groped a teenage girl.
Just normal human behavior. Sexual assault is a whole other matter.
More like does a header into the cliff - bringing it down on the coyote that fired it....
I agree.
What are you trying to accomplish goldstate? What’s your goal?
Why are you repeatedly disseminating false rape accusations about Judge Kavanaugh?
laughing, thanks ...
No. Hr stands accused of one thing and you want to make the accusation worse.
Why are YOU intentionally changing the verbage from groping to rape?
No goal.
I am not disseminating false accusations - it does seem to serm to me thait what his accuser says is true, it woukf contradict everythjng we know about Kavanaugh.
And since its referred ro as sexual assault I cannot imagine for the life of me, why he would seek to ruin his own life.
No matter what its called, its garbage.
Because groping isnt a crime.
To put not to fine a point on it, when a decent person hears someone accused of sexual assault, they think rape.
So how am I making it worse? Either Kavanaugh committed a felony or he didnt.
The FBI doesnt waste its time on teen sex pranks.
As for the rape thing, in the Bible Joseph is accused of raping his masters wife and spends time in prison for it.
Not every accusation is the truth. We all know that and Kavanaugh isnt the first and wont be the last man falsely accused.
Yep, FR seems to have quite a few trolls, Libs, etc pretending to be Conservatives. They embellish stories like adding rape while feigning support for Kavanaugh. Everybody needs to Flag these jokers.....
Fine. To be clear.
There were no rape accusations.
There were sexual assault accusations.
Sexual assault is not the same as rape.
Get your rape accusation posts deleted Here’s one from an hour ago:
September 19, 2018 8:03:43 AM EDT · 7 of 33
goldstategop to snarkytart
If he really raped her, how come it took so long for her to pipe up?
Now I am confused.
Whoever that “him” was.
I was under the impression here that groping is something boys do. When pray tell, did it become sexual assault.
To call it that, trivializes real sexual assault. I ask the forgiveness of other posters if I misheard.
Because I have always understood sexual assault to mean attempted or actual rape.
And I am not saying a good man committed that crime but since the media says Kavanaugh is accused of sexual assault, it siounds really bad.
And I would never impute to hm something he never did. I want to make that clear for the record.
He denied being there or being with her so there is nothing that would constitute a se malum offense. Period.
I said if and facts are not In evidence - after forty years.
And just to remind everyone, what is really going on is the seriousness of the charge.
In a word, its a travesty.
Again, groping someone’s clothing (a top) does not equate to rape.
Fondling or groping a person without their consent is not rape.
There is a huge difference between the two regarding societal norms, legality, and the subsequent criminal charges and penalties.
Blasey-Ford has not made any rape accusation, nor should you.
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