SEXUAL ASSAULT: Another accuser to testify against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

Things have just moved from bad to worse for Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee after a university professor who accused him of sexual assault agreed to testify before a Senate panel.

Reports say the decision by Christine Blasey Ford to testify before the Senate panel came a week after she went public in an interview in the Washington Post with her allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982 when both were high school students in Maryland.

However, Kavanaugh has called Ford’s allegation “completely false” and in a statement provided by the White House Sunday night said the incident described by Ramirez “did not happen.”

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“This is a smear, plain and simple,” Kavanaugh said.
“I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my good name – and the reputation for character and integrity I have spent a lifetime building – against these last-minute allegations,” Kavanaugh said in the statement.

The decision by the university don to testify against Kavanaugh is coming just hours after the New Yorker magazine published an article in which a second woman, identified as Deborah Ramirez, described another instance of alleged sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh, also in the 1980s, when both attended Yale University.

 

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