Jane Mayer discusses her very credible sources re: Kavanaugh

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=DwGLi_3Aj_E

Jane Mayer on CBS: "We found classmates had been talking about this for weeks ... There'd been an email chain of Yale classmates of Kavanaugh talking about 'will this thing come out' long before Christine Blasey Ford came forward. We felt the public ought to know about this."

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“There’s a very sober background source, who was not part of the party, was not drunk, heard about it either that night, he thinks, or the next day,” she said. “When I asked him myself, does he remember this, and is he sure that Kavanaugh was the person he heard about in this. He said to me, ‘I am 100 percent sure.'”

“He’s mentioned it to other people in grad school over the years,” Mayer continued. “His classmates were talking about it in July, before Christine Blasey Ford came forward. We have looked at the e-mails, they’re chattering about it, saying, ‘Boy, if the FBI investigates him, there are going to be some stories here that are going to put an end to his nomination.'”

Another source contacted Mayer and Farrow to share her concerns about Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge, who Ford claims was an accomplice in her near-rape.

“Her name is Elizabeth Rasor, and she was at Catholic University with (Judge), and she said, ‘I feel a moral obligation to correct the record here,'” Mayer said, paraphrasing her source. “‘What he’s saying about how there’s no way that this could have happened because they only knew boys, they only roughhoused with boys, there were no girls basically in their lives,’ she said, ‘Mark Judge told me that he’ — I don’t want to say anything too scuzzy on television — ‘but told me that he had sex when she was at Georgetown Prep with some of his friends, all with the same drunk woman at the same time.'”

“She’s saying this on the record,” Mayer added, “and she is a teacher now, and she said, ‘I wouldn’t betray confidences ordinarily, but I felt it was just too important, and I needed to say there’s another picture of Georgetown Prep social life than the one that he painted — and he knows that.'”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/scuzzy-tv-reporter-repulsed-latest-brett-kavanaugh-allegations-revealed-new-yorker/

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1. The New Yorker Article:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez

Ramirez said that, when both she and Kavanaugh were freshmen at Yale, she was invited by a friend on the women’s soccer team to a dorm-room party. She recalled that the party took place in a suite at Lawrance Hall, in the part of Yale known as Old Campus, and that a small group of students decided to play a drinking game together. “We were sitting in a circle,” she said. “People would pick who drank.” Ramirez was chosen repeatedly, she said, and quickly became inebriated. At one point, she said, a male student pointed a gag plastic penis in her direction. Later, she said, she was on the floor, foggy and slurring her words, as that male student and another stood nearby. (Ramirez identified the two male onlookers, but, at her request, The New Yorker is not naming them.)

A third male student then exposed himself to her. “I remember a penis being in front of my face,” she said. “I knew that’s not what I wanted, even in that state of mind.” She recalled remarking, “That’s not a real penis,” and the other students laughing at her confusion and taunting her, one encouraging her to “kiss it.” She said that she pushed the person away, touching it in the process. Ramirez, who was raised a devout Catholic, in Connecticut, said that she was shaken. “I wasn’t going to touch a penis until I was married,” she said. “I was embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated.” She remembers Kavanaugh standing to her right and laughing, pulling up his pants. “Brett was laughing,” she said. “I can still see his face, and his hips coming forward, like when you pull up your pants.” She recalled another male student shouting about the incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,’ ” she said. “It was his full name. I don’t think it was just ‘Brett.’ And I remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there.”