Woman Who Made Rape Claims Agains Kav Admits She Lied
The Women Who Accept Accused Brett Kavanaugh
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The Sexual Assault Allegations Confronting Kavanaugh
At that place are multiple women who have defendant Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Here are their allegations and his responses.
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President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Approximate Brett Kavanaugh, is facing sexual assail allegations past multiple women. Here are the accusations and how Kavanaugh has responded. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford said Kavanaugh assaulted her at a party in high schoolhouse. According to her, he was drunk when he pushed her into a bedchamber, started grinding his trunk confronting hers and tried to undress her. She said he tried to conceal her screams past covering her mouth with his paw. In an interview with Fox News, Kavanaugh responded. "I've never sexually assaulted anyone, not in in loftier school, not ever." The second accuser is Deborah Ramirez. She and Kavanaugh were both students at Yale when, she said, he exposed himself to her. Ramirez said he held his penis about her face during a drinking game in a dorm room. When she pushed him away, she said, she accidentally touched it and saw Kavanaugh laughing and pulling upwards his pants. Kavanaugh reacted to the allegations, saying: "I never did whatever such thing. Never did any such affair." The third accuser is Julie Swetnik. She said she met Kavanaugh on several occasions at house parties between 1981 and 1983. At these parties, Swetnik said, she saw a drunk Kavanaugh participate in a range of aggressive behaviors toward women: from pressing and grinding his trunk on them to trying to remove their clothes. She also alleges that Kavanaugh was there when what she described as "gang" rapes took place. Swetnik says she was raped by a group of men at i of these parties in 1982. Swetnik is also the start accuser to give an on-camera interview to the media. She spoke to Showtime on Sept. 26: "This is something that occurred a long fourth dimension ago and information technology'south not that I just thought nigh information technology. It's been on my listen always since the occurrences." In a statement released by the White House, Kavanaugh called the accusations "ridiculous" and "from 'The Twilight Zone'" and said information technology never happened. A fourth anonymous accusation was made in a letter sent to Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado. The author of the letter says her girl saw a drunkard Kavanaugh aggressively push a woman he was dating confronting a wall outside a bar in 1998. Kavanaugh's response: "This is crazytown. Information technology'south a smear campaign."
3 women take publicly accused Judge Brett Thousand. Kavanaugh, the Supreme Courtroom nominee, of sexual set on or misconduct, with the latest allegation emerging on Wednesday.
The accusations against Judge Kavanaugh started to surface this month as he faced confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The judge has denied the claims. On Thursday, as he testified before the committee nigh Christine Blasey Ford'south allegations, he said forcefully, "I am innocent."
[Here's a guide to The New York Times's coverage of the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh]
Christine Blasey Ford
What she said
Dr. Blasey came forrard in an interview published by The Washington Post on Sept. 16, saying that Judge Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was nigh 15 at a political party in suburban Maryland in the early 1980s.
She described a drunken Approximate Kavanaugh pinning her on a bed, trying to take her clothing off and roofing her oral cavity to keep her from screaming. "I idea he might inadvertently kill me," the newspaper quoted her every bit saying. "He was trying to set on me and remove my clothing."
Dr. Blasey said a friend of Guess Kavanaugh, Marking Approximate, was in the room and participated in the assault. He has denied the allegations.
Her background
Dr. Blasey, 51, is a inquiry psychologist at Palo Alto University in Northern California, who also goes by her married name, Ford.
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At the time of the declared set on, she was a student at Holton-Arms Schoolhouse, a private girls' prep school in Bethesda, Md. He was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School, an elite Jesuit school in suburban Washington.
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Her account was also detailed in a confidential July 30 letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
The Post interview included quotations from Dr. Blasey'south husband and her lawyer, and it described a therapist'due south notes from 2012 in which she spoke of the assail.
She also took a polygraph examination in Baronial. The retired F.B.I. amanuensis who conducted the examination, Jerry Hanafin, said the results showed "no charade indicated" — in outcome, "she was existence truthful." Her lawyers released a re-create of the polygraph report on Wednesday.
Judge Kavanaugh's response
Approximate Kavanaugh has denied the accusations, and the White House has said it stands by those denials.
What happened side by side
The report resulted in the delay of the Judiciary Committee'southward vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination the week it was published.
Dr. Blasey's lawyers, Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, have said that since she went public with her story, she has been subjected to death threats, had her electronic mail hacked and had to leave her home.
The committee's Republican leadership has retained an Arizona prosecutor specializing in sexual practice crimes to assistance question Dr. Blasey near the allegations in a hearing on Thursday.
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Deborah Ramirez
What she said
Ms. Ramirez said in an interview published in The New Yorker on Sept. 23 that during the 1983-84 school year at Yale University, when she and Estimate Kavanaugh were freshmen, he exposed himself to her during a drinking game in a dorm suite.
A small group of students sabbatum in a circle and people selected who had to take a drink, she recalled, saying she was chosen frequently. She became drunkard, she said.
Of a sudden, Ms. Ramirez said, she saw a penis in front end of her face. One human being told her to "kiss information technology," she told The New Yorker. As she moved to push information technology abroad, she said, she saw Estimate Kavanaugh standing, laughing and pulling up his pants. Raised a Catholic, Ms. Ramirez was "embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated," she said.
Her background
Ms. Ramirez, 53, was a student of sociology and psychology at the time. She arrived at Yale from Shelton, Conn., the girl of a telephone company lineman and a medical technician. She attended a coed Catholic loftier school, St. Joseph, that was predominantly white but had a number of minority students, including Ms. Ramirez, whose male parent was Puerto Rican.
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Ms. Ramirez is now a registered Democrat who lives in Boulder, Colo., with her husband, Vikram Shah, a engineering consultant. She has worked with a domestic violence organization and joined its board in 2014. She also works for the Boulder County housing department.
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Ms. Ramirez said she told few people about the episode at the fourth dimension. She and Judge Kavanaugh were not shut friends, merely they crossed paths, including at Yale and at a hymeneals in 1997.
Judge Kavanaugh's response
Judge Kavanaugh denied the allegation, saying in a argument to The New Yorker, "This is a smear, plain and simple."
What happened next
More than two,200 Yale women have signed a letter of support for Ms. Ramirez; a similar letter of the alphabet has been circulating among Yale men.
A lawyer for Ms. Ramirez has written to the Judiciary Committee proverb that his client would exist "willing to cooperate" and tell her story under sure terms.
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Julie Swetnick
What she said
On Wednesday, Ms. Swetnick accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s. Her allegation was conveyed in a statement posted on Twitter by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
Ms. Swetnick said she observed Judge Kavanaugh at parties where women were verbally abused, inappropriately touched and "gang raped."
She said she witnessed Estimate Kavanaugh participating in some of the misconduct, including lining up outside a bedroom where "numerous boys" were "waiting for their 'turn' with a girl inside the room." Ms. Swetnick said she was raped at ane of the parties, and she believed she had been drugged.
Her background
Like Estimate Kavanaugh, Ms. Swetnick, 55, is from the Washington suburbs. She grew up in Montgomery County, Physician., graduating from Gaithersburg High School in 1980. She attended the University of Maryland, according to a résumé for her posted online, The Times reported.
She has held a multifariousness of public and individual sector jobs in Washington. Her résumé and her lawyer'south statement say she has held several regime clearances, including with the Country Department and the Justice Department.
Important details
Ms. Swetnick said in her argument that she had attended at to the lowest degree 10 house parties in the Washington expanse from 1981 to 1983 where Judge Kavanaugh and Mr. Judge, his friend, were present. (Mr. Gauge has denied the allegations in her statement.)
Ms. Swetnick said she saw Guess Kavanaugh drinking "excessively" at parties and engaging in "abusive and physically ambitious behavior toward girls, including pressing girls against him without their consent, 'grinding' against girls, and attempting to remove or shift girls' clothing to betrayal individual body parts."
Approximate Kavanaugh's response
In a statement issued by the White Firm, Judge Kavanaugh said at that place was no truth to the claim. "This is ridiculous and from the 'Twilight Zone,'" he said. "I don't know who this is and this never happened."
What happened side by side
President Trump dismissed Ms. Swetnick'south lawyer, Mr. Avenatti, on Twitter equally a "third rate lawyer who is adept at making simulated accusations" and is seeking attending.
Judiciary Committee aides confirmed that they were examining Ms. Swetnick's declaration. Only the committee'south Republican chairman, Senator Charles Eastward. Grassley of Iowa, told reporters that he did not expect to find anything.
Senator Lindsey Graham of S Carolina, another Republican on the committee, said he would "non be a participant in wholesale character bump-off that defies credibility."
A fourth allegation surfaces
Judge Kavanaugh faced another accusation after an anonymous letter, dated Sept. 22, was sent to Senator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado.
In the letter, a woman said her daughter had witnessed Judge Kavanaugh drunkenly push her friend, a woman he was dating, upward against a wall "very aggressively and sexually" after they left a bar one night in 1998.
On Tuesday, Gauge Kavanaugh was questioned nearly the letter by staff lawyers for the Judiciary Committee about the accusation, which he denied, according to a transcript.
"Information technology's ridiculous," he said. "Total 'Twilight Zone.' And no, I've never done anything like that."
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-accusers-women.html
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