Philip Bump, WaPo, points out why Kavanaugh's July 1 calendar entry fits Ford's description

[highplainsdem]

...and how Mitchell glossed over it in her questioning:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-is-pressed-key-july-entry-his-calendar-only-point/



Editing to add excerpts for those who can't use the link above:

Ford alleges that she attended a party at someone’s home that summer, where, she alleges, Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge pushed her into a bedroom and locked the door and where Kavanaugh then began to try to remove her clothes. Among the others at the party, Ford alleged, was another friend of Kavanaugh’s named P.J. Smyth. Kavanaugh denies the allegation and told Fox News' Marth MacCallum that while he might have met Ford, he didn’t know her. Judge said in a statement that he doesn’t remember any such party. Smyth made a similar statement.

It was Kavanaugh’s hope that providing those calendars would show that he attended no such gathering. He insisted, in his testimony Thursday, that any party of the sort must have been on a weekend (since he and his friends had jobs) and that the calendars showed that essentially all of the weekends were booked with other activities. (His friend Mark Judge, in a memoir about his past drinking problem, wrote that this wasn’t a concern of his: He’d regularly show up at work hung over or drunk.)

Rachel Mitchell, hired by the Republican majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee to navigate the questioning of Kavanaugh and Ford, pointed to one particular calendar entry that got some attention after the calendars came out. It read:

Tobin’s House — Workout / Go to Timmy’s for Skis w/ Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie, Squi

The reference to “skis” is apparently to “brewskis,” or beers. The entry was July 1, a Thursday. Mitchell asked him about it.

-snip-

Notice two things here. First, that “Squi” was in attendance at the party — someone who, we learned thanks to Mitchell’s questioning of Ford, was going out with Ford over the course of that summer. Second, notice those two other attendees, one of whom Mitchell highlighted: Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth.

-snip-

We noted Thursday, too, that the time frame of this July 1 party fits with Ford’s testimony. She says that six to eight weeks after the alleged assault, she saw Judge working at a store in the area. Judge’s book indicates that he was working at that store for several weeks in early to mid-August.

This is a central point to Ford’s allegation. Kavanaugh denies knowing her, denies being at a party with her. Here is an event in July where he was with several long-standing friends, two of whom were named by Ford and one of whom she’d been going out with.

But Mitchell’s next question completely fumbles the point.

MITCHELL: Have you reviewed every entry that is in these calendars of May, June, July and August of 1982.

KAVANAUGH: I have.

MITCHELL: Is there anything that could even remotely fit what we’re talking about in terms of Dr. Ford’s allegations?

KAVANAUGH: No.

That was it. Mitchell changed the subject.

After that, GOP senators started asking their own questions.

[JI7]

1. can someone post details ?

[highplainsdem]

4. Just edited the OP to add the details.

Last edited Thu Sep 27, 2018, 08:13 PM - Edit history (1)

[JI7]

7. thanks. this is why he wants no investigation

[dem4decades]

2. That was her job, it was up to a Democrat to expose it.

She's a Republican shill.

[highplainsdem]

6. It may have been the job the GOP wanted her to do, but she abandoned professional responsibility.

I agree, though, that the Dems failed by NOT pointing this out.

[Hav]

3. No excerpts for those with no subscription?

[highplainsdem]

5. Just added them to the OP.

[Hav]

8. Appreciated

And although this is only speculation, he stumbled a little bit during the discussion of that date and the participants. I hope that this info somehow gets to Ford. If the house still exists and is in the same form, it could be worthwhile to check out the house and see whether the rooms fit the memories.

[Jarqui]

9. July 7, 1982

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/26/17905372/brett-kavanaugh-calendar-georgetown-prep-evidence

"Columbia" is the "Columbia Country Club"

From Dr Ford's remarks
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/ford-testimony/index.html

In the summer of 1982, like most summers, I spent almost every day at the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland swimming and practicing diving.
One evening that summer, after a day of swimming at the club, I attended a small gathering at a house in the Chevy Chase/Bethesda area. There were four boys I remember being there: Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, P.J. Smyth, and one other boy whose name I cannot recall. I remember my friend Leland Ingham attending. I do not remember all of the details of how that gathering came together, but like many that summer, it was almost surely a spur of the moment gathering.

Kavanaugh's calendar for July shows that this incident could well have occurred on July 7, 1982

[highplainsdem]

11. The July 1 date fits much better, because of the people named, including Ford's boyfriend.

But yes, their families did belong to the same country club.

[Jarqui]

13. It could be either or

nearly any of the other dates when he was not out of town.

Those two dates July 1 and July 7 are interesting because they have some specifics.

Because they are two examples of interest, they help to prove that the calendar he relies on really doesn't prove much at all.

One has to wonder about how able he is as a judge if he is grasping at straws like that.

[Tucker08087]

10. I have this question:

If he and Dr. Ford did not travel within the same social circles, as he said (because they hung out with Catholic School girls, not regular private school girls-horror!) and lived so far apart that her story is simply improbable, how did she come up with random names of boys that he just happened to have on his calendar? She just GUESSED PJ out of the blue?

[W_HAMILTON]

12. Good point.

[highplainsdem]

14. Philip Bump tweeted about this early yesterday morning. WHY weren't there more questions about it?

Link to tweet

[Cicada]

15. Go to Timmy's? Did his house have pool, narrow staircase?

[highplainsdem]

16. Someone needs to find out. And this is the sort of thing the FBI could have checked.

[highplainsdem]

17. Slate article on this:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaughs-calendar-for-july-1-1982-go-to-timmys-for-skis-with-judge.html

[struggle4progress]

18. Republicans' prosecutor undercut Kavanaugh's defense

Kavanaugh claims he didn’t know a woman who we learned was going out with his good friend

By Philip Bump
September 27 at 3:00 PM

... On 13 occasions, Kavanaugh refers to someone named “Squi” on his calendar. It’s the name that crops up the most. Kavanaugh and Squi, who played on the Georgetown Prep football team with him, went to a Washington Bullets game, to Squi’s house in Rehoboth, to see movies, to the beach. On July 1, Kavanaugh, Judge, PJ, Squi and two others go to “Timmy’s for skis” -- an apparent reference to going to a friend’s house for beers (“brewskis”) ...

... The shared connection to Kavanaugh was the person who Whelan suggested might be the real culprit ...

"He was somebody that, I will use the phrase ‘I went out with,’ " Ford said, using air quotes. “I wouldn’t say ‘date.’ I would say ‘went out with’ for a few months. That was how we termed it at the time” ...

... Kavanaugh’s calendar from that year shows that he spent a lot of time with Squi as well. And Kavanaugh further alleges that he “may” have met Ford but that they “did not travel in the same social circle” and that “she was not a friend, not someone I knew” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/27/republicans-prosecutor-may-have-helped-undercut-kavanaughs-defense/?utm_term=.9a9771fb3deb

[joshcryer]

19. Mitchell specifically brought that up to keep it from being asked by a Senator.

But I question if the Senators were told about it specifically. The date matches perfectly.

The idea is, you ask it specifically, then you just let it go, as if it was just a passing thing, and move on hoping no one catches wind of it. Unfortunately the Democratic Senators weren't clued in to its importance.