Says DOJ should 'rescue' Kavanaugh
By Kate Sullivan, CNN
Updated 1:12 PM ET, Sun September 15, 2019
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called on his Justice Department Sunday to "rescue" Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after The New York Times published an excerpt of a new book detailing sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh that he has previously denied.
The excerpt from "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation," written by Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, revisits an allegation raised during the Supreme Court justice's confirmation process in 2018. That allegation from Deborah Ramirez accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at a party when he was a freshman at Yale, according to an account published in The New Yorker. Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegation.
The book revisits Ramirez's claim and contains a former male classmate's new allegation which the authors say was corroborated by two sources. The authors reported the former classmate came forward to the FBI and senators concerning an incident he witnessed and said the FBI did not investigate the incident ...
Trump tweeted Sunday that Kavanaugh "should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue." (The President initially misspelled the word "libel" before deleting the tweet and correcting the word in a subsequent tweet.) ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/15/politics/brett-kavanaugh-trump-doj-rescue/index.html
"Why else would we have a Department of Justice, if not to help me politically?"
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with fond hopes that it might further illuminate the meaning of the story!
Oh, and before you ask, here's a link:
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/07/576209428/president-trump-called-for-roy-cohn-but-roy-cohn-was-gone
"Discovery" ain't just the name of a space shuttle.
First burden of proof: is the statement true? That's where the defense attorneys will earn their fees! Everything comes out into the open.
