Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser's claim before it became public
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News.
Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has tried to get those messages to the FBI for its newly reopened investigation into the matter but says she has yet to be contacted by the bureau.
The texts between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, both friends of Kavanaugh, suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirezs story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public. In one message, Yarasavage said Kavanaugh asked her to go on the record in his defense. Two other messages show communication between Kavanaugh's team and former classmates in advance of the story.
The texts also demonstrate that Kavanaugh and Ramirez were more socially connected than previously understood and that Ramirez was uncomfortable around Kavanaugh when they saw each other at a wedding 10 years after they graduated. Berchem's efforts also show that some potential witnesses have been unable to get important information to the FBI.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/mutual-friend-ramirez-kavanaugh-anxious-come-forward-evidence-n915566
grantcart
(53,061 posts)onenote
(42,703 posts)See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1512
Of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't look bad, cause it does.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)And the whole lying just about everything "thing".
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)stupid stinking republican liars need to sit down and shut up.
Hav
(5,969 posts)of the messages makes this story so vague that one cannot draw any conclusions from it. Asking someone to come out in defense is something different than telling someone to lie about a specific event, for example.
It would be quite damning though if there were attempts to influence or silence witnesses of this event long before it was made public which is what seems to be hinted at in this story as well.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)He testified that he only learned about the Ramirez charges until the New Yorker published their account.
The texts were made prior to the New Yorker articlw
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)From L, Deborah Ramirez, Kerry E. Berchem, Doug Millet, Karen Yarasavage, Kevin Genda, Brett Kavanaugh & David White pose for a photo at the rehearsal dinner before the wedding of Yarasavage & Genda in 1997. (NBC).
ffr
(22,670 posts)You've been caught six ways to Sunday, you perverted sex predator! Withdraw! You make this worse for your family every minute you and your Illiberal accomplices keeps doubling, tripling down.
GOOD-BYE MOTHERF*CKER! AND GOOD RIDDANCE!