Among the Thousands of FBI Tips, a Statement From an Aggrieved Truck Owner

[DonViejo]

Oct 5, 2018 at 7:42 pm ET


One of thousands of tips the FBI received is a Yale classmate's allegation that Brett Kavanaugh vandalized his Ford Courier in 1986, damaging the black cargo box visible in the bed. Judge Kavanaugh has denied the allegation.

As senators were mulling their position on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, many headed to the Senate basement to view the FBI reports on the roughly 10 interviews they conducted in regard to a sexual assault allegation stemming back to the 1980s.

Upon entering the secure room, some were surprised to see a stack of documents containing thousands of other tips sent to the bureau about Judge Kavanaugh since his nomination and the assault allegations. The judge denied the charges.

"The one thing they also have in there is they've downloaded the FBI tipline," said Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) "There's like thousands of tipline calls."

Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) said: “It’s pretty thick—the whole report, you could stand on it and paint the ceiling.”

One document likely in the stack would be a notarized statement submitted to the FBI Tuesday by a truck owner, who allegedly confronted an inebriated college student who was “smashing the black cargo box” in the bed of his parked Ford Courier on a New Haven, Conn., street in the fall of 1986.

more (no paywall)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/kavanaugh/card/1538782969

Or, read the RawStory aggregate of the article:

‘Incoherently drunk’ Brett Kavanaugh smashed pickup truck then refused to pay for damages says fellow Yale secret society member
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/incoherently-drunk-brett-kavanaugh-smashed-pickup-truck-refused-pay-damages-says-fellow-yale-secret-society-member/

[YessirAtsaFact]

1. No amount of evidence would have changed their votes

That much is abundantly clear.

Enough tips for you to stand on the stack of paper and paint the ceiling and they are all bogus?

[TheBlackAdder]

15. He could have shot someone on Fifth Avenue.

[YessirAtsaFact]

16. I'd like to see all of this information become public due to FOIA

I'm sure it is outrageous what they covered up.

[renate]

2. It must be nice to be immune from misbehavior

And to be rewarded with a seat on the Supreme Court.

I can see why a bunch of rich white men wouldn’t want their lifelong, consequence-free party to end.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[mercuryblues]

14. Yup and I know someone

who has a misdemeanor pot conviction and can't rent an apartment in her name because of it.

[torius]

4. Rs care about trucks more than they care about women.

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Wish this story had come out sooner.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

11. Ghastly. & True.

Damaging a man's pickup truck I'm SURE is a much worse offense to many trumpists than damaging a wife or girlfriend. The latter kind of property heals on its own in time (well, externally... but that's what counts). You just need to keep it indoors and out of sight for awhile.

A damaged truck, though, a man's gotta take that kind of possession to a body shop, spend money on it. Not to mention, it's just more important.

[PatSeg]

5. "Thousands of tipline calls"???

And they still voted "yes" for Kavanaugh?

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

6. I hope every last fucking one of these 1000s that McGahn/Grassley ordered the FBI to not follow up

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...get reported out like this one, by the complainants themselves, to the press.

Kavanaugh can spend his next few months denying them all, one by one, to the national media.

Or more likely, just flat out belligerently refusing to answer.
"How about YOU, Reporter Woman?! Did YOU ever vandalize somebody's truck toolbox?! Huh? Did YOU?? I want to know THAT!"

[Ilsa]

7. I hope WaPo posts and publishes every single one

that is reasonably credible. Put all bk's dirty laundry out there. Keep his name synonymous with filth.

Maybe someone will come forward with his 31 year offspring, conceived at one of his innocent soirees.

[pansypoo53219]

8. kavanot sounds like a reall asshole. hope this eats his soul when he is revealed.

[mtngirl47]

9. Could they have found a lower form of life to be on the Supreme Court?

When did all of these tips come in? Did everyone wait until the last damn minute?

[torius]

10. They should rename it the Extreme Court.

No one in the middle.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

12. Most people started calling the FBI with their Kavanaugh information quickly, asking

to be interviewed.

When they got no callback -- because the FBI was being prohibited from interviewing them -- many called again.

Finally they'd call the Tip Line, because it was the only channel on which they weren't totally rebuffed and ignored.

Trump, Don McGahn, and Grassley allowed the FBI to interview only 10 people, total. So the BI report was 46 pages, reportedly. And then there were the thousands of frustrated call-in leads, which the agents had beem barred by the WH and Grassley from addressing.

The whole "investigation" was a sham, just political cover for rhe Repubs to vote Yes to confirm Kav.

[mtngirl47]

13. I realize that the FBI investigation after Dr. Ford's testimony was a sham, but

my question was---What were these people doing since July 10th when Trump nominated him??

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

18. Well, the sexual assault victims, we all understand that fear. As for the others, who

...could testify to him being "just" a belligerent, aggressive, easily enraged, sometimes even violent drunken asshole, I don't know.

My guess is they paid real attention only after it became obvious the Repubs really were just going to "plow through" the women who were bravely trying to get people to believe that Kavanaugh tried to rape them, or assaulted them. Just like McConnell promised they would.

When people started to realize the sexual assaults were actually not even going to matter to the Repubs -- objectively, still a stunning thing, even after Anita Hill, even for them -- it probably energized other people who knew what Kavanaugh's really like, to step forward and TRY to help.

(A Rhode Island man who reported that he and a friend tracked down and beat up Kav and Judge after they'd raped a relative of his (daughter?) in the mid 1980s got doxxed and barraged with death threats. He then tweeted he'd made a mistake and recanted his story. He wasn't clear about what his mistake had been. I wonder if it was misidentification? Or not foreseeing the degree of personal danger his stepping forward would put him in once doxxed to the Trump 2nd amendment trolls?

So, there's that factor deterring people, too. Floods of anonymous, explicit threats of violence and murder, esp when they name your address -- or the prospect of such threats -- do work to intimidate people, causing them to hesitate, at least.)

[Scurrilous]

17. K&R