Releasing its new one-week supplemental background report on 53-year-old Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the FBI found no corroborating evidence of sexual assault allegations made by Dr.. Christine Blasey-Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick, all claiming Kavanaugh engaged in improper sexual behavior. Democrats, led by 85-year-old ranking member Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), rejected the FBI’s report as incomplete because it didn’t interview all witnesses raising Kavanaugh’s high school and college drinking habits. When Feinstein broke Blasey-Ford’s confidence Sept. 30, she thought she’d sink Kavanaugh’s nomination. She and other Democrats called for an FBI investigation to allay lingering doubts about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault allegations. When the GOP agreed Sept. 30 to a week-long FBI investigation, you’d think they’d be satisfied.
Yet Democrats complain now they want the FBI to investigate Kavanaugh’s high school and college drinking habits. Numerous college roommates and acquaintances have come forward to throw in their two cents about what they saw of Kavanaugh’s drinking habits back in the day. But to investigate Kavanaugh’s drinking habits, the FBI would have deviated from its scope to investigate allegations of sexual misbehavior by Blasey-Ford, Ramirez and Swetnick. More than 40 people “with potential information into the sexual misconduct allegations” against Kavanaugh did not have their phone calls returned by the FBI. FBI officials were meticulous going over all witnesses cited by Blasey-Ford, Ramirez and Swetnick, all produced zero corroboration about alleged reports of sexual misconduct. If Blasey-Ford, Ramirez and Swetnick named witnesses that can’t corroborate their stories, it’s all you need to know.
Democrats and their friends in the press want the FBI investigation to delve into Kavanaugh’s drinking habits in high school and college for the purpose to impeaching his credibility in his Sept. 27 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. Most of the 40 witnesses that weren’t able to tell their stories wanted to talk about Kavanaugh’s drinking habits in high school and college, all deemed irrelevant by the Judiciary Committee, the White House and the FBI. Investigating allegations of sexual misconduct were the focus of Kavanaugh’s accusers, plus Senate and FBI investigators. Only Democrats and the media were looking for any way to disqualify Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court. If only they could establish he’s a drunk, then they could associate it with sexually deviant behavior or that’s how the story goes. FBI investigators keep their eyes on only sexual abuse allegations.
Making great headlines and driving ratings, CNN rounded up several of Kavanaugh’s acquaintances at Yale to refute his Sept. 27 testimony in the Judiciary Committee. They called Kavanaugh a “liar” for minimizing the extent to which he over-imbibed at Yale. CNN paraded Yale classmates Liz Swisher and Mark Krasberg, both said the FBI didn’t take their stories seriously when it came to Kavanugh’s drinking habits at Yale. Yet CNN and Democrats knew that the FBI was interested in corroborating information about Kavanaugh’s alleged incidents of sexual misconduct, not about his drinking habits. “As a general matter, if the FIB is conducting an investigation . . . they decide who they need to talk to,” said Carrie Cordero, a former counsel to the U.S. Asst. Attorney General for national security. Democrats pounced all over the FBI’s “cherry-picking,” calling the investigation a sham.
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who staked her career on defeating Kavanaugh, complained about the FBI probe. Saying she had “serious concerns that this is not a credible investigation,” Feinstein hoped to influence fence-sitting GOP members of the Senate. Feinstein knows the math that Kavanaugh could pick up one Democrat vote in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Virginia). Fence-sitting Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Az.),.whom insisted on the FBI investigation, now look poised to vote for Kavanaugh. Only Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) hasn’t yet said how she’ll vote. But even if Murkowski votes no, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) now has enough votes to confirm Kavanaugh. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), two of President Donald Trump’s biggest critics, found the latest FBI investigation incomplete.
Democrats and their media friends have run out of bullets to stop Kavanaugh’s nomination. No matter how divided the vote, Kavanaugh has the votes needed now for confirmation as early as Saturday. Democrats pulled out every trick-in-the-book to sabotage Kavanaughs’ nomination but, in the end, couldn’t produce the evidence needed to substantiate allegations of sexual misconduct. Hoping to catch Kavanaugh in lies about his drinking habits in high school and college, the FBI kept its focus on sex abuse allegations not his drinking habits. All Kavanugh’s old buddies wanted to expose his past drinking habits but didn’t get their chance—nor should they. Blasey-Ford, Ramirez and Swetnick’s allegations were always about sexual misconduct, not whether of not Kavanaugh drank too much in high school or college. Democrats and their media can now only sit back and watch the vote.
