‘Well, if Kavanaugh didn’t record his sexual assault on his little calendar. CASE CLOSED!’ Twitter roasts Brett Kavanaugh for calendars he claims to have kept at 17 which help ‘prove his innocence’
- Brett Kavanaugh has calendars from 1982 that list basketball games, movies, and some parties – but not one with people named by Christine Ford in her allegation
- He is handing the calendars over to the Senate Judiciary Committee
- His team will argue there is no corroboration for Ford’s account
- Ford alleges that when she was 15 years old, Kavanaugh, who was 17 at the time, sexually assaulted her
- A second woman, Deborah Ramirez, 53, alleges that during her freshman year at Yale, classmate Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dorm party
The Twitterverse is laughing at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s claim that he has kept calendars from his time in high school that will boost his case he did not attempt to sexually assault a 15-year-old girl in 1982.
It was reported on Sunday that Kavanaugh has calendars from the summer of 1982 that do not list any party like the one Christine Blasey Ford described in her allegation of sexual assault against him.
He plans to give the calendars to the Senate Judiciary Committee, The New York Times reported, ahead of his testimony on Thursday.
While the calendars don’t disprove the charge against him as he could have attended a party not listed, his team will argue there is no corroboration for Blasey Ford’s account of a small gathering when they were teenagers were she claims he pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothing.
The calendars reveal Kavanaugh was out of town much of that summer – either at the beach or away with his parents.
The Twitterverse is laughing at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s (left) claim that he has kept calendars from his time in high school that will boost his case he did not attempt to sexually assault a 15-year-old girl in 1982. The alleged victim, Christine Blasey Ford, is seen right
When he was at home, the calendars list basketball games, movie outings, football workouts and college interviews, The Times reported.
A few parties are mentioned but include names of friends other than those identified by Ford in her account against him.
The claims that a calendar would exonerate Kavanaugh were scorned by Twitter users.
‘”I didn’t write ‘crimes’ in my calendar” has got to be the most cartoon bad guy defense in history,’ tweeted Mike Drucker.
‘Unconvincing: “I was a virgin and it was my evil twin and look I didn’t pencil in ‘rape night’ on my 36-year-old calendar,’ tweeted Sarah Kendzior.
‘Brett Kavanaugh will produce a detailed calendar he kept of his sexual escapades over three decades ago to refute charges that he lied about his virginity,’ quipped Sam Stein.
‘[The] [i]dea that teenager kept detailed calendar of daily events, including small, spontaneous, house parties during the summer, is absurd,’ tweeted David Rothschild.
‘Fact that Team Kavanaugh is even introducing this is insulting to everyone.’
‘Raise your hand if you kept a handwritten calendar of all the parties you went to in high school,’ tweeted Amy Siskin.
‘There. No one raised their hand.’
Kavanaugh’s prospects of confirmation remained in doubt Tuesday as a key Republican Senate holdout said her vote was in part contingent on whether Ford ‘is to be believed.’
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who helped sink President Trump and the GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare, voiced her concerns as Kavanaugh faced accusations from two named accusers – and was being challenged on claims about his past that he made in a Fox News interview.
Another holdout, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, said she will be ‘glued to the television’ during the blockbuster hearing set for Thursday where both Kavanaugh and Ford will testify.
‘We are now in a place where it’s not about whether or not Judge Kavanaugh is qualified,’ Murkowski told The New York Times.
‘Raise your hand if you kept a handwritten calendar of all the parties you went to in high school,’ tweeted Amy Siskin. ‘There. No one raised their hand’
‘[The] [i]dea that teenager kept detailed calendar of daily events, including small, spontaneous, house parties during the summer, is absurd,’ tweeted David Rothschild. ‘Fact that Team Kavanaugh is even introducing this is insulting to everyone’
‘Brett Kavanaugh will produce a detailed calendar he kept of his sexual escapades over three decades ago to refute charges that he lied about his virginity,’ quipped Sam Stein
John Nichols tweeted that the ‘calendar defense’ would not work for a teenager who got in trouble with their parents
Ken Klippenstein also mocked the idea that a calendar from 1982 would be enough to exonerate Kavanaugh
‘”I didn’t write ‘crimes’ in my calendar” has got to be the most cartoon bad guy defense in history,’ tweeted Mike Drucker
‘Unconvincing: “I was a virgin and it was my evil twin and look I didn’t pencil in ‘rape night’ on my 36-year-old calendar,’ tweeted Sarah Kendzior
Comedian Chelsea Handler also weighed in, saying Kavanaugh ‘did not write down the date he “thrusted his penis” in someone’s face.’ Handler was referring to an accusation made against Kavanaugh by Deborah Ramirez, 53
Rex Huppke tweeted a photo of a mock calendar. ‘Looks pretty rock solid,’ he tweeted
‘It is about whether or not a woman who has been a victim at some point in her life is to be believed,’ she said.
Murkowski, who does not sit on the Judiciary panel and who is one of a pair of pro-choice women in the Senate GOP, stressed the importance of the hearing in her decision, rather than Kavanaugh’s conservative credentials.
‘All you can try to do is be as fair as possible to ensure that at the end of the day justice is delivered,’ Murkowski told the paper.
Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, 53, has come forward and accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during their time as first-year college students at Yale University in 1983-84
In Separate comments Tuesday she said she would be ‘listening to every word.’
‘How can I base the credibility based on just what I read coming out of you all?’ she told members of the press.
She also said she wanted to hear form Debbie Ramirez, a second accuser.
The White House said it was open to her testifying, though there has been no movement as of yet from the Judiciary Committee.
‘If there are allegations out there, Miss Ramirez needs to be willing to come forward with them and just as Dr. Ford has been willing to come forward, albeit reluctantly, and I understand that is so, and so in order for us to take it under consideration, she needs to take the next step,’ she said.
‘I don’t know if she has, but I do think that is important.’
Collins also called for hearing testimony from Ramirez, who claims Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a Yale party decades ago.
Ford claims Kavanaugh groped her and covered her mouth while trying to rape her during high school in the 1980s. Kavanaugh vigorously denies both allegations.
‘I believe that the committee investigators should reach out to Deborah Ramirez in order to question her under oath about what she is alleging happened,’ said Collins.
Collins also helped doom the GOP’s Obamacare repeal, and voted against President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Kavanaugh’s prospects of confirmation remained in doubt Tuesday as a key Republican Senate holdout, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska (above), said her vote was in part contingent on whether Ford ‘is to be believed’
But the former Senate staffer has also made comments critical of how Democrats have handled the Kavanaugh proceedings. If Murkowski were to vote ‘no,’ it could be up to Collins whether Kavanaugh gets confirmed.
Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) called for delaying a scheduled hearing last week after Christine Blasey Ford’s bombshell allegations emerged.
So did retiring Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, although Corker also said after the Ramirez allegations that the confirmation was becoming like a ‘circus.’
Judiciary Republicans have hired a female lawyer to question Ford at the hearing to avoid a potential spectacle by the all-male panel members.
After delivering a blistering floor speech claiming Kavanaugh was facing ‘smears,’ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning for a quick floor vote after the hearing.
It could come on the weekend or as early as next Tuesday.
‘We’re going to be moving forward. I’m confident we’re going to win, confident that he’ll be confirmed in the very near future,’ McConnell said.
‘I believe he’ll be confirmed, yes.’
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Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are refusing to release the name of the attorney they hired to conduct the questioning.
The Senate Republicans who oversaw three days of hearings on Kavanaugh are preparing to hand over their normal investigative role int he blockbuster hearing set for Thursday.
Having the lawyer pepper Christine Blasey Ford with questions might spare the Senate Republicans who run the committee of potentially bad optics of having the all male, aging committee members conducting a televised interrogation of a woman claiming assault.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday questioned the credibility of Ramirez, saying she admitted she was drunk at a party where the alleged behavior occurred.
Ramirez accused Kavanaugh in an article published in The New Yorker magazine on Sunday of exposing himself to her at a drunken party during the 1983-84 academic year at Yale University.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday for Kavanaugh and Ford, who last week accused him of sexual assault in 1982.
Christine Blasey (now Ford) and Brett Kavanaugh in their respective high school year books
Kavanaugh has denied the accusations of both women.
Asked whether Ramirez should also be allowed to testify, Trump said, ‘The second accuser has nothing.’
He added, ‘She admits that she was drunk. She admits time lapses.’
‘He was so truthful,’ Trump said about Kavanaugh’s interview on Fox News on Monday in which the judge said, ‘I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone.’
Trump also praised the judge, and accused Democrats of portraying Kavanaugh as someone he is not.
‘He’s a high-quality person, he’s a great intellect,’ Trump said in remarks to reporters at the United Nations.
Patrick J Smyth (left) and Mark Judge (right) have both denied any knowledge of the sexual assault. In a statement, Smyth denied knowledge and praised the SCOTUS nominee’s ‘great integrity’. Judge, who was reportedly in the room when Ford was assaulted, has denied any recollection of the incident
While all parties have agreed on only using pool cameras, keeping Ford and Kavanaugh separate and providing police security for the renowned psychologist, there is still no consensus on whether alleged witness Mark Judge will be subpoenaed.
Ford described to The Washington Post in detail how, when she was a student at the all female Holton Arms she was at a teenage party in the 1980s, when Kavanaugh and his high school classmate followed her upstairs when she went to the bathroom and pushed her into a bedroom.
She alleged Kavanaugh held her down, tried to rip off her swimsuit, and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream.
She said she escaped when his friend, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them.
‘I thought he might inadvertently kill me,’ Ford told the newspaper.
Kavanaugh has repeatedly and strongly denied the allegation.
Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono said she wants to ask Kavanaugh about his school’s partying culture
‘This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or to anyone,’ Kavanaugh said in a statement provided by the White House.
Kavanaugh said he ‘had no idea’ who made the allegation until Ford identified herself Sunday in a bombshell Washington Post interview.
‘Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday,’ he noted.
Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Georgetown Prep, has written several books about his experiences at the elite Catholic high school near Washington, D.C.
Judge does not mention witnessing – or taking part in – any sexual assaults in his autobiographical books Wasted and God and Man at Georgetown Prep, which describe his struggles with alcoholism and eventual recovery.
But he does detail the hard-partying exploits of his classmates and friends – a group that included Kavanaugh – often in houses where parents were absent, matching the circumstances described by Ford of her alleged attack.
‘[Georgetown] Prep was a school positively swimming in alcohol, and my class partied with gusto – often right under the noses of our teachers,’ wrote Judge in his 2005 book God and Man at Georgetown Prep.
‘Senior year, my class of eighty decided that by the end of the year we would drink a hundred kegs of beer,’ wrote Judge. ‘I’m sorry to say that we succeeded.’
Kavanaugh is not named in the books and in both the author uses pseudonyms, in the first book even calling Georgetown Prep ‘Loyola’, a reference to St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order of Catholic priests who ran the school.
Judge declined to testify before the Senate panel and said he doesn’t remember the incident in question.
‘I have no memory of this alleged incident,’ he wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee sent via his attorney last week.
‘I do not recall the party described in Dr. Ford’s letter,’ added Judge, who wrote a book about his high school days describing heavy partying, drinking, and teenage sex.
He also defended longtime pal Kavanaugh, saying: ‘I never saw Brett act in the manner Dr. Ford described.’
Ford has named four other people allegedly at the party but all have said they don’t remember it.
On Saturday night, Leland Ingham Keyser, who CNN describes as a ‘lifelong friend’ of Ford, issued a statement denying any recollection of the party itself or Kavanaugh.
‘Simply put, Ms Keyser does not know Mr Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr Ford,’ her attorney, Howard J. Walsh, said in a statement sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kavanugh has spent hours practicing questions with White House aides.
Keyser separately clarified to the Washington Post she believes Ford, but does not have any personal knowledge of the assault.
Three other people, two of whom are Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, have also denied any knowledge of the alleged assault.
The third, Patrick J Smyth, issued a statement on Wednesday denying any knowledge of the party, and going on to praise Kavanaugh as a ‘person of great integrity’.
‘I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh,’ Smyth declared.
The White House, which has said repeatedly Kavanaugh denies the allegation and is prepared to testify at any time, released a statement pointing out the denials from the others alleged to be at the party.
‘One week ago, Dr. Christine Ford claimed she was assaulted at a house party attended by four others. Since then, all four of these individuals have provided statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying any knowledge of the incident or even having attended such a party,’ White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement late Saturday night.
But Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said it was no surprise others didn’t remember the night in question.
‘It’s no surprise, if another person was in the room or not in the room, but in the house that night and had no occurrence like the – the one that was stated by Dr. Ford, there’s no reason why they wouldn’t even remember that party scene 36 years ago,’ he said on ABC’s ‘This Week’ on Sunday.
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