"Don't f-----g tell people Brett got in touch with me."

[deminks]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/battle-over-accusations-goes-kavanaugh-nomination-advances-n917136

(snip)

Two former Yale classmates say they have made several attempts to share text messages raising questions about whether Kavanaugh tried to squash the New Yorker story that made Ramirez's accusations public — and say the FBI did not respond to their calls and written submissions to its web portal.

The text messages involve one potential eyewitness to the incident and the wife of another potential eyewitness.

The texts are a conversation between Kathy Charlton and a mutual friend of Kavanaugh's who, NBC has confirmed, was identified to the FBI by Ramirez as an eyewitness to the incident. NBC News has received no response to multiple attempts to reach the alleged eyewitness for comment.

The story detailing Ramirez’s accusation was published in The New Yorker on Sept. 23. Charlton told NBC News that, in a phone conversation three days earlier, the former classmate told her Kavanaugh had called him and advised him not to say anything "bad" if the press were to call.

Then on September 21, according to the texts, that same person sent Charlton a text accusing her of disclosing their conversation to a reporter. “Hellllllooooo. Don’t F****** TELL PEOPLE BRETT GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME!!! I TOLD YOU AT THE TIME THAT WAS IN CONFIDENCE!!!”

(end snip)

[irresistable]

1. This is not small

Someone very powerful has to make a big deal about this. Someone who cannot be denied. Does such a person exist?

[ooky]

13. It will be totally ignored by Republicans.

That is what our government has become.

[irresistable]

15. they cannot ignore our votes

[ooky]

18. They are ignoring us. They are hoping enough of us

won't go vote, again. We need to prove them wrong this time.

[irresistable]

22. they have no idea what they have unleashed

[pangaia]

27. oh yes they can.. they already have

[triron]

2. Send this to Rachel Maddow!

I am outraged.

[TeamPooka]

8. Send an NBC link to Rachel Maddow?

[triron]

3. knr

[triron]

4. Why isn't this getting more attention?!!

[Honeycombe8]

7. It doesn't matter at this point, I think. He's going to be confirmed.

If the new batch of politicians who get into office later want to do something, they can look into all this. Some think they will do that. But going on the past, they won't. It distracts from the agenda and the wish to move forward. It's very contentious, this sort of thing. New politicians in a new year generally don't start things up like that. Just like there was no review of the criminals who caused the Great Recession. No one of consequence went to jail.

I hope they do, though. It's that important.

[ZZenith]

28. Way to rally the troops!

[Garrett78]

19. Republican shenanigans are so commonplace that they simply don't faze anyone.

[triron]

5. kick for visibility

[triron]

6. kick again

[Hotler]

9. Damn! His wife looks happy...

[llmart]

16. Make no mistake about it...

she already knows what a jerk he is but has convinced herself it's worth it to stay with him. I hope her life is miserable as hell.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. Wonder how many times he's slapped her around ?

[Grasswire2]

26. Hey, she was W's personal secretary. She's IN on everything. nt

[Mr.Bill]

10. The sad fact is, if ten people came forth and said they witnessed the event Ford described

and three of them had video of it, they would still approve him. They just don't give a fuck what anyone thinks anymore.

They haven't even played the Roe v Wade "What about the tens of millions of babies that have been murdered" card yet.

[dchill]

12. Their sense of shame can never overpower their greed.

[SunSeeker]

11. K & R for exposure.

[bdamomma]

14. K&R

Nt

[Samspadesnark]

17. I really think

the dems chose the wrong hill to die on. Having gotten away with this, the patriarchy will now continue at accelerated speed and increased force. The dem senators should have focused on Kavanaugh's dodgy finances, provable lies, and breaches of the Judicial Code of Conduct, and had the hard, cold evidence at each hearing (showing the documents to Kavanaugh as they questioned him) so that it would have proven to be irrefutable. They were warned about this by many people, and chose the wrong path.

The media loves cat fights, and would love for yet another 'election' to be a cliff-hanger – provided the one percent can once again prevail in the end. We really need to be careful about choosing our strategies in the future: we are fighting a ruling class with untold billions at their disposal. 'She said, he said' rings true for so many of us (apparently one-third of all women have been raped), and I do believe Kavanaugh did what he was accused of doing – and that there was substantial corroborating evidence to suggest or prove it. But given the social proclivities and ingrained male cultural dominance, we should have chosen a fight that Kavanaugh and the entrenched powers could not have win.

When an appellate judge can be shown to be lying multiple times about his finances in his sworn application, and about several other important things (his leaking of grand jury testimony, for example – a serious no-no for any officier of the court), and when he also behaves in other ways that violate his own required judicial standards of conduct (promoting himself, having backers as though he were a political candidate, showing clear bias, treating others in ways that, if the shoe were on the other foot, the person would have been thrown out of his courtroom and/or sanctioned, etc), it becomes much more difficult for him to gain media sympathy or claim victim status.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

24. Yep, the financial shenanigans...

... I can't believe that they were not an issue, so far...

[BigmanPigman]

20. Can't police charges still be charged with a crime?

Maryland has no statute of limitations, what about this victim too?

[lancelyons]

21. Its another example of the GOP powering over the Dems

We play accusation and and tattle tell. They play power ball to win.

Its a shame really but another example of a butter knife.

[triron]

25. kick again

[triron]

29. knr

[triron]

30. +1

[Achilleaze]

31. Witness Tampering is totally illegal. Unless you are 'special'

and republicans think they are special, not like ordinary Americans who have morals, ethics, and respect for the law.