*Kav Is Toast: Now We Know Why GOP Didn't Want MARK JUDGE To Testify

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(9/23, Daily Kos) From Ronan Farrow and Jane Meyer’s article in the New Yorker: Ford’s allegation has made Judge a potentially pivotal witness for Kavanaugh. Judge told The New Yorker that he had “no recollection” of such an incident. Judge, who is a conservative writer, later gave an interview to The Weekly Standard in which he called Ford’s allegation “just absolutely nuts,” adding, “I never saw Brett act that way.”

Asked by the interviewer whether he could remember any “sort of rough-housing with a female student back in high school” that might have been “interpreted differently by parties involved,” Judge told the publication, "I can’t. I can recall a lot of rough-housing with guys.” He added, "I don’t remember any of that stuff going on with girls."

After seeing Judge’s denial, Elizabeth Rasor, who met Judge at Catholic University and was in a relationship with him for about three years, said that she felt morally obligated to challenge his account that “ ‘no horseplay’ took place at Georgetown Prep with women.” Rasor stressed that “under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t reveal information that was told in confidence,” but, she said, “I can’t stand by and watch him lie.”

In an interview with The New Yorker, she said, “Mark told me a very different story.” Rasor recalled that Judge had told her ashamedly of an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman.
Rasor said that Judge seemed to regard it as fully consensual. She said that Judge did not name others involved in the incident, and she has no knowledge that Kavanaugh participated. But Rasor was disturbed by the story and noted that it undercut Judge’s protestations about the sexual innocence of Georgetown Prep. (Barbara Van Gelder, an attorney for Judge, said that he “categorically denies” the account related by Rasor. Van Gelder said that Judge had no further comment.)
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Another woman who attended high school in the nineteen-eighties in Montgomery County, Maryland, where Georgetown Prep is located, also refuted Judge’s account of the social scene at the time, sending a letter to Ford’s lawyers saying that she had witnessed boys at parties that included Georgetown Prep students engaging in sexual misconduct.
In an interview, the woman, who asked to have her name withheld for fear of political retribution, recalled that male students “would get a female student blind drunk” on what they called “jungle juice”—grain alcohol mixed with Hawaiian Punch—then try to take advantage of her. “It was disgusting,” she said. “They treated women like meat.”

—https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez...
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Kavanaugh’s nomination is toast. Farrow and Meyer report that Senate Republicans have known some details of these incidents for days. Their response was to attempt to accelerate the committee vote and seat Kavanaugh before reporters could complete their fact-checks and the stories broke.
I hope Democratic opponents mercilessly attack every Republican who defended Kavanaugh. Donald Trump, Roy Moore, Brett Kavanaugh, the GOP should never be able to live down it’s consistent, reflexive support of sexual harassers and abusers.-subirgrewal

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/23/1798104/-Now-we-know-why-Senate-Republicans-didn-t-want-Mark-Judge-to-testify

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1. Things are going to boil the next few days..

Huge, dishonesty and trails...

Mark Judge: GOP Refuses To Call On Alleged Witness for Clear Reasons,*UPDATE
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016216376

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2. Mark Judge made himself sound guilty.

Denying it and saying he won't testify is a typical response of a guilty person.

Even though this doesn't directly implicate him or Kavanaugh it is, at minimum, confirmation that Judge is a liar and therefore not credible.

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3. For some time I've suspected his overt 'memoirs,'

tales of HS debauchery, excess drinking and 'black-outs'. What writer, esp. a conservative resorts to that and why?

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