On 21 January 2024 the Washington Post published a dishonest "hit piece" article entitled;
Takeaways from Sundance’s secret Brett Kavanaugh documentary
The article is about the Amy Herdy produced documentary “Justice” that she recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is about the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
This Washington Post (WaPo) article was extremely dishonest and just accepted everything Ms. Herdy put in her “hit piece” as if they were hearing it from a Burning Bush even though most of it had been thoroughly debunked previously by many credible news sources including their own Washington Post as well as the New York Times and Politico. The author of this piece of crap is Jada Yuan who at least honestly identifies herself as a “writer,” Most WaPo hacks go around masquerading as “journalists” or “reporters.”
Read this WaPo story for
yourself at this link and then read the truth at the below links and see for
yourself how dishonest this documentary is but so is the WaPo person reviewing
it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/21/brett-kavanaugh-doug-liman-sundance/
When I put the below well
documented comment in the WaPo Comments section for the article, the WaPo
censors removed it claiming: “This commenter has been removed by a
moderator for violating our community guidelines.”
“Justice” has all the historical accuracy of Oliver Stone’s “JFK” with none of the box office appeal.
The WaPo thoroughly discredited both Ford’s and Ramirez’s stories.
While Politico destroyed everything Ramirez
said and the New York Times wouldn’t even publish it.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/25/deborah-ramirez-attorney-kavanagh-fbi-841973
Suggest you read “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation” by New York Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin. These two ultra-Liberal NYT reporters thoroughly discredit every unfounded allegation against Justice Kavanaugh. Here was their bottom line according to the NYT:
“Pogrebin
and Kelly spend significant time digging into Blasey Ford’s accusations and
also those of Deborah Ramirez, a woman who says Kavanaugh put his penis in her
face at a Yale college party. They tracked down any witnesses and friends
willing to talk, combed through legal documents, and did their best to find the
house where Blasey Ford says the assault took place. They pointed out critical
witnesses that the F.B.I., in its very limited investigation, did not have time
to interview. In the end they turned up no smoking gun, no secret confession,
no friend who came forth to say Kavanaugh was lying all this time.”
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Here is how each accusations was debunked in detail and each “accuser” exposed as a liar as captured in the Wikipedia entry on the subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh
Sexual assault allegations
Christine Blasey Ford
In early July 2018, Kavanaugh's name was on a shortlist of nominees for the Supreme Court. Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University, contacted a Washington Post tipline and her U.S. Representative, Anna Eshoo, with accusations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. On July 30, 2018, Ford wrote to Senator Dianne Feinstein to inform her of her accusation against Kavanaugh, requesting that it be kept confidential. After a September 12 report in The Intercept, Feinstein confirmed that a complaint had been made against Kavanaugh by a woman who had requested not to be identified. Feinstein said that the woman had claimed that, when they were both in high school, Kavanaugh had tried to force himself on her while she was being physically restrained. The same day, Feinstein said she had forwarded the woman's accusation to federal authorities.
On September 16, Ford publicized her allegations and claimed Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was 15 and he was 17. She said that in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and Mark Judge, one of Kavanaugh's friends from Georgetown Prep, corralled her in a bedroom at a house party in Maryland and turned up the music playing in the room. According to Ford, Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, groped her, ground against her, tried to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth with his hand when she tried to scream. Ford said she was afraid that Kavanaugh might inadvertently kill her during the attack, and believed he was going to rape her. Ford stated that she escaped when Judge jumped on the bed, knocking them all to the floor.
Kavanaugh issued the following statement through the White House: "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time." Republicans criticized the decision to withhold "a vague, anonymous accusation for months" before releasing it on the "eve of [Kavanaugh's] confirmation" as an attempt to delay his confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh released a statement on the evening before his and Ford's scheduled testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said that due to the serious nature of the allegations, both he and Ford deserved to be heard. He also stated, "I am innocent of this charge."
On September 19, the Senate Judiciary Committee invited Kavanaugh and Ford to testify about the allegation. Kavanaugh agreed to testify on September 19. Ford requested that the FBI investigate the matter first, but Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley declined the request, and gave Ford a deadline of September 21 to inform the committee whether she intended to testify. He added that Ford was welcome to appear before the committee privately or publicly. On September 20, Ford's attorney opened negotiations with the committee to reschedule the hearing under "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety". A bipartisan Judiciary Committee panel and Ford's representatives agreed to a hearing after September 24.
Ford stated that Leland Ingham Keyser, a lifelong friend, was present at the party where the alleged assault took place. On September 22, Keyser stated through her attorney that she did not know Kavanaugh and had no memory of the party or a sexual assault. The attorney did confirm that Keyser was a friend of Ford's, and Keyser told The Washington Post that she believed Ford's allegation.
On October 4, 2018, the White House announced that it had found no corroboration of Ford's allegation after reviewing the FBI's latest probe into Kavanaugh's past. Her attorneys tweeted, "Those directing the FBI investigation were not interested in seeking the truth."
In September 2019, New York Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin published The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation. They reported that Keyser "thought the whole setup Ford described ... sounded wrong", and that she "challenged Ford's accuracy", quoting Keyser as saying, "I don't have any confidence in the story". According to The Washington Post, the book revealed that "Keyser also said she spoke with many people who 'wanted me to remember something different'—suggesting that there was pressure on her to toe the line [against Kavanaugh]".
Deborah Ramirez
On September 23, 2018, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer of The New Yorker published an article with another sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University with Kavanaugh, alleged he exposed himself to her and thrust his penis against her face after they had both been drinking at a college party during the 1983–84 academic year. Kavanaugh said, "This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen." The New Yorker spoke to four classmates, three identified as eyewitnesses but all denied witnessing the event. The New York Times interviewed several dozen of Ramirez's classmates in an attempt to corroborate her story, and could find no firsthand witnesses to the alleged assault, but several classmates recalled that they had heard about it in the subsequent days and believed Ramirez. According to The New York Times, "Ramirez herself told the press and friends that, initially, she was not absolutely certain it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her, but after corresponding with friends who had secondhand knowledge of the incident, and taking time to refresh her recollection, stated that she was certain Kavanaugh was her assailant." The Washington Post analyzed Ramirez's allegation and concluded, "Ramirez's accusation has the dual distinction of having more potential corroboration and less actual corroboration than Ford's".
Julie Swetnick
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels in her suit against Trump, tweeted on September 23, 2018, that he represented a woman who had "credible information" about Kavanaugh and Judge. Avenatti said his client would be willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On September 26, Avenatti revealed the woman to be Julie Swetnick, a former government employee. In a sworn statement, Swetnick described attending "well over ten house parties in the Washington, D.C. area during the years 1981–1983 where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present". She described being aware of "efforts by Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others to 'spike' the 'punch' at house parties I attended with drugs and/or grain alcohol so as to cause girls to lose their inhibitions and their ability to say 'No'". In an interview with NBC News, Swetnick clarified that she didn't actually witness Kavanaugh or Judge spike any drinks. Kavanaugh called her allegations "ridiculous" and Avenatti's allegation as a whole a "farce". The Wall Street Journal reported that it had contacted "dozens" of her former classmates and colleagues but failed to reach anyone with knowledge of her allegations and that none of her friends had come forward publicly to support her claims. Grassley referred both Swetnick and Avenatti to the Justice Department for criminal investigation regarding claims that the two engaged in "conspiracy, false statements and obstruction of Congress". Avenatti was later convicted of tax evasion, extortion, fraud, embezzlement, wire fraud, and obstruction of the Internal Revenue Service in multiple trials unrelated to the Kavanaugh allegation.
Judy Munro-Leighton
On
September 19, Judy Munro-Leighton accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault in an
anonymous letter signed "Jane Doe", which was addressed to Grassley but mailed to
Senator Kamala Harris. On September 26, the Senate
committee interrogated Kavanaugh about this accusation. Kavanaugh called the
accusation "ridiculous". On
November 1, Munro-Leighton talked to committee staff members. During the
conversation she changed her story, denying that she had penned the anonymous
letter and saying she had contacted Congress as "a ploy" to "get
attention". On November 2, Grassley announced Munro-Leighton's
identity, and described her accusations as fabricated. She was referred to
the Department of Justice and FBI for making false accusations and obstructing justice.
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