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pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 03:00 PM Sep 2018

Kavanaugh's new claim, according to MSNBC: "I was not at that party."

The problem is, Ford never specified any particular party. She said her memory was vague about where and when.

And the other man involved, who spent most of his high school years in a drunken stupor, according to his memoir, says he remembers nothing like this at all.

From the WA Post:

After so many years, Ford said, she does not remember some key details of the incident. She said she believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda. Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at Georgetown Prep.

At the time, Ford said, she knew Kavanaugh and Judge as “friendly acquaintances” in the private-school social circles of suburban Maryland. Her Holton-Arms friends mostly hung out with boys from the Landon School, she said, but for a period of several months socialized regularly with students from Georgetown Prep.

Ford said she does not remember how the gathering came together the night of the incident. She said she often spent time in the summer at the Columbia Country Club pool in Chevy Chase, where in those pre-cellphone days, teenagers learned about gatherings via word of mouth. She also doesn’t recall who owned the house or how she got there.

Ford said she remembers that it was in Montgomery County, not far from the country club, and that no parents were home at the time. Ford named two other teenagers who she said were at the party. Those individuals did not respond to messages on Sunday morning.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.15d6146692b1
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Kavanaugh's new claim, according to MSNBC: "I was not at that party." (Original Post) pnwmom Sep 2018 OP
Whatever party it was...I wasn't there. hahaha. CincyDem Sep 2018 #1
Yep. Funny how he seems to know what party it was that he wasn't at. skylucy Sep 2018 #2
Intially didn't Ford say at a party . . . Iliyah Sep 2018 #3
oops eleny Sep 2018 #4
The other problem - hasn't Kavanaugh lied under oath? calimary Sep 2018 #5

CincyDem

(6,385 posts)
1. Whatever party it was...I wasn't there. hahaha.
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 03:03 PM
Sep 2018

This is the sound of false denial.

It's a close cousin to the changing story...you know...like:

I thought it was my apartment.
The door was ajar and I was suspicious.
He charged at me.
It was self defense.


You know how those stories go.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. Intially didn't Ford say at a party . . .
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 03:09 PM
Sep 2018

So, wouldn't Kavanaugh say from jump street that he never went to a party that she went too? Sorta, kinda late isn't it. WH and him sounds like they made up that plan today.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
4. oops
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 03:09 PM
Sep 2018

the boys club is sticking together. but their assertions are in tatters.

grassley has his marching orders from corporate donors, though. so he may still attempt to hold the vote. if it's delayed for any reason then we'll know mcconnell doesn't have the votes. he was shamed by mccaine's no-vote on the aca. i doubt he wants another punch in the eye delivered by republican nay votes.

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