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Tidbit from the latest Ronan Farrow / Jane Mayer article, detail that I haven't seen posted here yet:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-the-fbi-ignore-testimonies-from-kavanaughs-former-classmates
In his statement, the classmate also said that he recalled, on multiple occasions, Brett Kavanaugh counting on his fingers, how many kegs they had over the weekend. The amount that he heard Kavanaugh describe, he said in the statement, seemed to be an extreme amount of beer drinking for someone to consume at any age, let alone someone in high school. He said that he also recalled Kavanaugh participating in general conversations where the football players were bragging about their sexual conquests over the prior weekend.
His statement also challenges Kavanaughs assertion in last weeks hearing that he never denigrated a female student named Renate Schroeder, whose married name is Renate Dolphin, and who attended Georgetowns sister school, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Kavanaugh and thirteen other Georgetown Prep boys described themselves in their high-school yearbook as Renate Alumnius, which other classmates have told the Times was a crude sexual boast. During his Senate hearing, Kavanaugh said that the reference was an endearment, saying, she was a great friend of ours. Wea bunch of us went to dances with her. She hung out with us as a group. He said that a media circus that has been generated by this, though, and reported that it referred to sex. It did not.
But the classmate who submitted the statement said that he heard Kavanaugh talk about Renate many times, and that the impression I formed at the time from listening to these conversations where Brett Kavanaugh was present was that Renate was the girl that everyone passed around for sex. The classmate said that Brett Kavanaugh had made up a rhyme using the REE NATE pronunciation of Renates name and sang it in the hallways on the way to class. He recalled the rhyme going, REE NATE, REE NATE, if you want a date, cant get one until late, and you wanna get laid, you can make it with REE NATE. He said that, while he might not be remembering the rhyme word-for-word, the substance is 100 percent accurate. He added, I thought that this was sickening at the time I heard it, and it left an indelible mark in my memory.
Reached for comment, Dolphin noted that she had asked for her name to be removed from a statement signed by female supporters of Kavanaughs nomination. If this report is true, I am profoundly hurt, she said, of the account in the affidavit. I did nothing to deserve this. There is nothing affectionate or respectful in bragging about making sexual conquests that never happened. I am not a political person, but my reputation matters to me and to my family. I would not have signed the letter if I had known about the yearbook references and this affidavit. It is heartbreaking if these guys who acted like my friends in high school were saying these nasty, false things about me behind my back.
Angela Walker, who was in Dolphins class at Stone Ridge, also submitted a declaration to the F.B.I. Though she did not mention Dolphin in the declaration, Walker voiced support for her in a phone interview. Its really horrifying what they did to her, Walker said, its a terrible betrayal. She noted, too, that the depiction of Dolphin reported in the classmates statement is not the Renate that I knewits not possible. Walkers declaration described attending a large house party with Georgetown Prep boys, where, she wrote, A friend from Prep warned me not to go upstairs, where the bedrooms were, cautioning me that it could be dangerous.
Emphasis added.
enough
(13,259 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)While not as sickening as the behavior described, the cover up in process comes pretty damn close.
Funtatlaguy
(10,878 posts)appalachiablue
(41,140 posts)Oct. 2. 'Kavanaugh's 1983 Letter Offers Inside Look at High School Clique Image,' Source: NY Times. The beachfront property was rented, the guests were invited and an ever-organized Brett M. Kavanaugh had some advice for the seven Georgetown Preparatory School classmates who would be joining him for the weeklong escapade.
In a 1983 letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times, the young Judge Kavanaugh warned his friends of the danger of eviction from an Ocean City, Md., condo. In a neatly written postscript, he added:
Whoever arrived first at the condo should warn the neighbors that were loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us. Advise them to go about 30 miles...... https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142170617
Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)it seems clear to me that Kavanaugh had a crush on her that was not reciprocated. And so he took it out on her by damaging her reputation.
highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Another anti American farce being pushed through by an illegitimate "President.
Now what will we do, America. It has to be something more than gnashing our teeth again.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)regime will keep on eroding our rights and liberties until there is nothing left again there are more of us than them, WE ALL NEED TO VOTE OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT.
Louis1895
(768 posts)Can we please give Jane Mayer credit for this article, too? She is the first author and a seasoned investigative reporter.
highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)Louis1895
(768 posts)I apologize if my comment came across as a bit aggressive. It is just that I am a big fan of both Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow and I like to see both of them get proper recognition. Her book on dark money in politics should be required reading.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Just like ralphing isn't vomiting, just like devil's triangle isn't about sex. Everybody knows that, everybody but you obviously.