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Kavanaugh: ‘The truth is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone’
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said in an interview set to air Monday evening that he’s “not going anywhere” in the confirmation process to become a justice despite facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
“The truth is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise,” Kavanaugh said in an interview with Fox News with his wife sitting by his side, according to an excerpt released Monday afternoon.
“I am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps Dr. Ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone at some place,” he added. “But what I know is, I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone.”
Kavanaugh also said in the interview that he was a virgin “in high school or for many years thereafter.”
“I never sexual assaulted anyone,” he said. “I did not have sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter. The girls from the schools I went to and I were friends.”
Kavanaugh was referring to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party in the suburbs of Maryland when they both were in high school. Ford is set to testify publicly at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the allegations and Kavanaugh is expected to testify afterward in response to the same panel.
“I was never at any such party,” Kavanaugh told Fox. “The other people who alleged to be present have said they do not remember any such party. A woman who was present, another woman who was present who was Dr. Ford’s lifelong friend has said she doesn’t know me and never remembers being at a party with me at any time in her life.”
Asked if he and his wife, Ashley, had ever looked at each other and said that the confirmation process wasn’t worth it in the end, Kavanaugh responded that he was determined to see it through.
“I’m not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process and we’re looking for a fair process where I can be heard and defend my integrity my lifelong record — my lifelong record of promoting dignity and equality for women starting with the women who knew me when I was 14 years old,” said Kavanaugh, according to an excerpt. “I’m not going anywhere.”
The interview comes a day after another woman went public with a new set of sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez alleged in an article published by The New Yorker Sunday night that while she and Kavanaugh both attended Yale University in the early 1980s, he pulled down his pants and exposed himself to her.
“I remember a penis being in front of my face,” said Ramirez, who said that she had been drinking. “I knew that’s not what I wanted, even in that state of mind.”
Three sources familiar with the accusation told NBC about Ramirez’s accusation in the last week. Ramirez, 53, is the same age as Kavanaugh and they both graduated from the university in 1987.
Kavanaugh has denied the allegation, and described the accusations from both woman as “smears, pure and simple,” in a letter to the Judiciary Committee Monday. “Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service,” he wrote.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Monday afternoon that the allegations were a “smear campaign, pure and simple” that had been “aided and abetted by members of the United States Senate.” He added that Kavanaugh will receive an up or down vote on the Senate floor “in the near future.”
President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for Kavanaugh on Monday.
“This is a fine man, and we certainly hope he’s going to be confirmed, and quickly. … His family has suffered,” he said in New York while attending the United Nations General Assembly. “What’s going on is not something that should happen.”
Later, tweeting about the upcoming interview, he referred to the Kavanaughs as “an outstanding family who must be treated fairly!”
By: NBC Palm Springs
September 24, 2018
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