n the eve of pivotal testimony scheduled to take place Thursday before the Senate Judiciary
Committee that could determine whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh rises to the
high court, committee Republicans released word of a development that throws a new twist
on the already tortured proceedings.
And Democrats are screaming that their own trick has been pulled against them.
According to Fox News, Judiciary Committee Republicans released a statement late Wednesday
revealing that they had spoken with two men who have said it was possible that they were
actually responsible for an alleged sexual assault in the early 1980s that Palo Alto
University Professor Christine Blasey Ford is blaming on Kavanaugh.
According to Fox, the statement revealed that the GOP had been in contact with one of the
men since Monday.
The Republicans, led by committee Chairman Charles Grassley, obviously opted not to share
the information with Democratic colleagues.
In a statement to NBC News, an unnamed Democratic congressional aide was outraged.
"Twelve hours before the hearing they suggest two anonymous men claimed to have assaulted
her," the aide stated.
"Democrats were never informed of these assertions or interviews, in violation of
Senate rules."
Seriously?
This is the same party that kept quiet about a letter received by California Sen. Dianne
Feinstein in July but did not see fit to reveal its existence to the country until after Kavanaugh's
confirmation hearing had ended.
Sen Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, pointed out the hypocrisy in a Twitter post.
"Some might find it exceedingly difficult to imagine Judiciary Committee Democrats expressing
this complaint with straight faces," he wrote.
Some might find it exceedingly difficult to imagine Judiciary Committee Democrats expressing
this complaint with straight faces.
The bombshell news from Wednesday night was the latest development in a tumultuous week
that started when The New Yorker published an account of a second accuser against Kavanaugh
in a barely believable piece that was essentially built on a hazy memory, rumor — and Democratic
probes.
Then, publicity-hungry attorney Michael Avenatti went public on Wednesday with a tale of a
client with a bizarre story that Kavanaugh was part of a "gang rape" ring in the
early 1980s (Avenatti has publicly mused about mounting a 2020 presidential campaign, so
Democrat politics are clearly a factor).
Both accusations — like Ford's — were sprung out of the blue.
Now, Judiciary Committee Republicans have officially released word that there are yet
more stories out there that could put the whole thing to rest.
On Monday, the timeline recounts GOP staff members interviewing 'a man who believes
he, not Judge Kavanaugh, had the encounter with Dr. Ford in 1982.'
"The 'encounter' refers to an episode in which Ford claims that Kavanaugh sexually
assaulted her in a bedroom at a Maryland house party.
"They had a follow-up interview with that man, and he provided more detail about the
assault.
"Then on Wednesday, the committee staff said they spoke with a second man who said
he assaulted Ford in 1982."
No credible conservative has denied it was possible that Ford actually went through some
kind of ordeal in the early 1980s.
Kavanaugh himself said as much during an interview with Fox News on Monday.
I am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps Dr. Ford at some point in her
life was sexually assaulted by someone in some place," he said, according to a transcript
from USA Today.
"But what I know is I have never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any
time in my life."
Obviously, it's too soon to tell where Wednesday's developments will lead, but it's possible
that they could eventually show Ford's story was correct to the extent that she actually
did go through an ordeal at the hands of a male.
It's also possible they will show, even to Democrats and rabid liberals, that Kavanaugh
is innocent of Ford's accusations.
But considering how they came out, and the Democrats' hypocritical reaction to them,
they prove one thing for sure:
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