This is all just too much. Yesterday, the President, Kavanaugh and Linsey Graham, not to mention the dark part of US media all claimed that this was a giant conspiracy by the Democrats, payback for the Clintons and Trump's election victory, search and destroy, etc. etc.
It was never clear how that theory actually worked without somehow involving Dr. Ford, but anyway..
All the Democrats wanted was an FBI inquiry, and Kavanaugh kept weaving and ducking that question numerous times during the hearing, several times really painfully so. At one time he simply kept mum. Anyone eager to clear his name would welcome an FBI investigation. He doesn't, that much became painfully clear.
And now there will be one. Thanks to Jeff Flake, who can't be primaried anyway as he's leaving, so he had little to loose but brave nevertheless (Although in all likelihood the result of him being cornered in an elevator by a sexual assault victim).
Remains to be seen what the outcome will be:
It was never clear how that theory actually worked without somehow involving Dr. Ford, but anyway..
All the Democrats wanted was an FBI inquiry, and Kavanaugh kept weaving and ducking that question numerous times during the hearing, several times really painfully so. At one time he simply kept mum. Anyone eager to clear his name would welcome an FBI investigation. He doesn't, that much became painfully clear.
And now there will be one. Thanks to Jeff Flake, who can't be primaried anyway as he's leaving, so he had little to loose but brave nevertheless (Although in all likelihood the result of him being cornered in an elevator by a sexual assault victim).
Remains to be seen what the outcome will be:
- A week is pretty short.
- Mark Judge will, in all likelihood, not incriminate himself and deny that he remembers anything.
- But there are some interesting differences in the image Kavanaugh painted of himself and his real persona at that time.
- And then there are these other two accusers.