Posted on 09/13/2018 1:31:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Thursday threw a cryptic curveball at Brett Kavanaugh, insinuating the Supreme Court nominee could be guilty of a crime even as Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee seek to delay his confirmation.
The vague accusation comes after the Senate Judiciary Committee already grilled Kavanaugh and other witnesses and prepares to vote on sending his nomination to the full Senate.
A spokesperson for Feinstein declined Fox News’ request to elaborate on the lawmaker’s statement, but there has been much speculation that she is referring to a secret letter that has been the subject of intrigue on Capitol Hill over the last few days. A source familiar with the confirmation proceedings told Fox News that Feinstein received the letter back in July, but did not make its existence known publicly until Thursday.
The woman referenced in the letter has yet to be identified, but is being represented by Debra Katz, a whistleblower attorney who works with #MeToo survivors, according to The Intercept.
Despite the turmoil over the letter, a spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said there is no plan to delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Grassley set the panel's vote on Kavanaugh for Sept. 20 and Republicans hope to confirm Kavanaugh by the start of the new court session Oct. 1.
The White House attacked Feinstein's statment as an 11th hour attack on the nominee.
“Throughout his confirmation process, Judge Kavanaugh has had 65 meetings with senators—including with Senator Feinstein—sat through over 30 hours of testimony, addressed over 2,000 questions in a public setting and additional questions in a confidential session," White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement. "Not until the eve of his confirmation has Sen. Feinstein or anyone raised the specter of new ‘information’ about him."
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Did he hold her too close during a slow dance?
That’s my impression. Note again that the letter to Eshoo was written by a third party, someone “affiliated” with Stanford. This is speculation, but it’s not hard to imagine that the woman referenced in the letter had mentioned an awkward, embarrassing (or worse) incident with an old high school boyfriend (Kavanaugh) — how serious an alleged incident we have no idea — in casual discussion with a friend. Perhaps this discussion occurred years ago. Perhaps it was more recent, after Kavanaugh’s nomination. But as far as we know now, it’s this third party “friend,” not the woman herself, who is making the charge. It is certainly relevant that, whatever the nature of the alleged incident, it was not something about which she chose to complain at the time.
This whole Kavanaugh thing has become as nutty as the hearings being held by the lunatic Mueller. The country’s gone insane.
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