Rosenstein, Republicans, Avenatti: 3 Stories You Should Read 9/24/2018
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In the category of: From bad to much worse – if you’re Kavanagh.
Avenatti claims to have more information on Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge.
Michael Avenatti has entered the fray surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the sexual misconduct and assault allegations against him. He says he has some explosive information — though details of the claims, and who is behind them, are unclear.
It all started Sunday evening. Avenatti, an attorney who rose to fame this year for representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her battle with the White House, tweeted that he was representing a woman with “credible information” about Kavanaugh and Mark Judge, a friend of Kavanaugh’s. Christine Blasey Ford says Judge was in the room when Kavanaugh allegedly sexually assaulted her while they were in high school. Avenatti wrote that he would be “demanding the opportunity to present testimony” to the Senate Judiciary Committee and called for Kavanaugh’s nomination to be withdrawn.
Around the same time Avenatti began tweeting, Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow at the New Yorker published a story detailing allegations from a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, who says Kavanaugh drunkenly exposed himself to her and thrust his genitals in her face while they were in college. (Kavanaugh has denied both Ford and Ramirez’s allegations.)
In the category of: A reasonable question.
There’s No Such Thing as a Republican Party
Ever since Donald J. Trump took office, perhaps his biggest accomplishment has been exposing the fact that the America-loving, conservative party is, and has always been, a lingering illusion that exists only in the imagination of America.
Like a fantastical movie that is “based on a true story,” Trump’s presidency has revealed that the Republican Party’s conservative basis is as real as the kinda true tale of the family who celebrated the purchase of a new home by getting drunk and fabricating the hoax that would become The Amityville Horror.
The Republican platform is also a scary work of fiction that describes a mythical place haunted by 56 liberty-loving, dead Founding Fathers who believed in freedom (even though 41 of them owned slaves), hated taxes, and were divinely inspired by Christianity (even though it appears nowhere in the Constitution).
In the category of: Thursday is going to be quite a day.
Trump to meet with Rosenstein on Thursday
President Trump DONALD JOHN TRUMPGrassley: Dems ‘withheld information’ on new Kavanaugh allegationHealth advocates decry funding transfer over migrant childrenGroups plan mass walkout in support of Kavanaugh accuser MORE will meet with Rod Rosenstein on Thursday amid reports of the deputy attorney general’s imminent ouster, the White House says.
“At the request of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he and President Trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday.
“Because the President is at the United Nations General Assembly and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world, they will meet on Thursday when the President returns to Washington, D.C.”
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