ORIGINAL KAVANAUGH ACCUSER’S WITNESS WAS THREATENED TO LIE ABOUT NOMINEE

During Kavanaugh’s bloody confirmation in which Ford accused him of sexual assault, Keyser said through her lawyer that while she didn’t refute Dr. Ford’s account, she was also “unable to corroborate it because she has no recollection of the incident in question.”

But now Keyser said she challenges Ford’s accusation entirely, according to the new book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, a book of which, ironically enough, was apparently intended to keep the accusations against Kavanaugh alive.

I don’t have any confidence in the story,” she told the New York Times reporters who wrote the book.

Interestingly, Keyser said that, in a group text of Ford allies, she was threatened with being smeared as an addict if she didn’t help Ford, as reported by The Federalist:

An unnamed man on the text suggested that they defame her as an addict. Keyser has been in recovery for some time, as her friends know and as has previously been reported.

[Another] answered, “Leland is a major stumbling block.” While asserting she didn’t want her to make anything up out of whole cloth, she offered ideas for things that could sound supportive of Ford’s story, such as that she’d been in similar situations with Blasey Ford that summer.

“I was told behind the scenes that certain things could be spread about me if I didn’t comply,” Keyser told the reporters, a stunning admission of the pressure to which she was subjected to by Blasey Ford’s allies.

"according to the new book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, a book of which, ironically enough, was apparently intended to keep the accusations against Kavanaugh alive."

This effort is not just about Kavanaugh. It is meant to, "educate" all future judicial nominees to what they will have to face if they are nominated. Drop out or be targeted.

I think she thought this would blow over after she politely said she couldn’t remember any such party or any such incident. But it’s not going away. While still mostly civil, she is pretty much calling Ford a liar now, as well as revealing Ford’s people threatened her to change her testimony. That’s a felony, and despite the intentions of the authors of the NYT hit piece, the biggest part of the story. If we had a justice system, the DOJ would be knocking on Mrs Keyser’s door and asking who asked her to change her statement. I won’t hold my breath.

I think you're right.

Most people don't understand the long-ball that Democrats play, and she probably thought she could just give some tacit, but consistent, denials and the whole thing would go away.

She didn't count on the Democrats' long knives, and that everything is a foundation for the next thing.

She's now the Next Thing.

-PJ

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“I was told behind the scenes that certain things could be spread about me if I didn’t comply,” she said"