Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is likely pounding a beer this morning after new details of the FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations made against him by Dr Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 were released .
The FBI has just revealed that it has received over 4,500 tips – yes, 4,500! – on a phone line in 2018 as part of his background check on the then Supreme Court candidate, but he only sent those he deemed “relevant” to the ex – President Donald Trump at the White House. Now Democrats are asking for more information.
CNN reports:
The exact number of tips was disclosed in a June 30 letter released by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Thursday. The letter responded to a two-year-old request from Senate Democrats for more information on how the investigation was going.
The revelation rekindled fierce accusations by the Liberals that the FBI and Trump’s White House failed to sufficiently examine the allegations against Kavanaugh following accusations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her during the ‘a party in suburban Maryland when they were both in high school.
Kavanaugh’s appointment marked the first time in history that an FBI whistleblower line had to be set up to receive information during a Senate confirmation investigation.
After Ford went public with his accusations, investigators spoke to only 10 people before concluding that the allegations had no basis. Neither she nor Kavanaugh were ever interviewed as part of the investigation, leading many to call it all a prank.
Following this new information, Ford’s lawyers are once against calling it a “sham and a major institutional failure.”
“Not only did the FBI refuse to interview Dr. Ford or the corroborants listed in our letter to FBI Director Wray, but it failed to act on the more than 4,500 pieces of advice it received about the candidate from. the Kavanaugh era, ”his lawyers said. “Instead, he passed the information on to the White House, allowing those who supported Kavanaugh to falsely claim that the FBI found no wrongdoing.”
Meanwhile, Democrats say the new information “raises important additional questions” and asks the FBI to explain, among other things, exactly how many advice the FBI deemed “relevant” and what criteria they used to take that. decision, as well as how they verified tips, who was responsible for monitoring the tip line and whether tips were recorded or retained.
But it does not stop there.
The new information has also reignited the question of who paid off the hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt Kavanaugh owed just before being appointed by Donald Trump to the Supreme Court.
In 2018, Mother Jones reported:
Before President Donald Trump appointed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, he was in debt. In May 2017, he said he owed between $ 60,004 and $ 200,000 on three credit cards and a loan from his retirement account. By the time Trump appointed him to the High Court in July 2018, those debts were gone. Overall, his income and reported assets didn’t seem enough to pay off all that debt while maintaining his upper-class lifestyle: an expensive house in an exclusive suburban neighborhood, two kids in a private school at 10,500 $ a year and a membership in a chic country club would have charged $ 92,000 in initiation fees. His financial disclosure forms raised more questions than they answered, leading to speculation as to whether he had had a private benefactor and what kinds of conflicts that relationship might cause.
All of this comes less than two weeks after reports that Trump himself criticized Judge SCOTUS, who believes employers should be able to fire LGBTQ people, while speaking to reporter Michael Wolff.
According to Wolff’s book “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Chairman,” Trump told him he was “disappointed” in Kavanaugh, adding: “There were so many others I could have named, and all the world wanted me to do it. “
“Where would he be without me?” Trump said, according to the book. “I saved his life. He wouldn’t even be in a law firm. Who would have had it? Nobody. Totally dishonored. I am the only one who saved him.
Here’s what Folx on Twitter is saying about Kavanaugh’s latest drama …
Today would be a good day to reopen the Kavanaugh investigation.
It would also be a good day to ask Wray if he would like to clarify his comments that the investigation is “in accordance with standard process.”
– Angry employee (@Angry_Staffer) July 23, 2021
Today’s news that the FBI passed some of the 4,500 (!) Advice on Kavanaugh to the WH puts Trump’s comments that he “saved his life” in a new light, doesn’t it ?
– NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) July 22, 2021
The FBI said some of the 4,500 pieces of advice it received about Judge Brett Kavanaugh during the investigation of allegations of sexual misconduct against him had been turned over to Trump White House …
4500 tips for sexual misconduct..4500 tips..4500 .. four thousand five hundred tips …
– Buddy Winston (@BuddyWinston) July 22, 2021
Who paid off Kavanaugh’s massive debt?
– Amy Siskind ???? (@Amy_Siskind) July 23, 2021
There are credible allegations of sexual assault against a Supreme Court judge. There is now evidence that the WH has actively blocked an investigation into these allegations. The new DOJ must investigate so that anyone can trust our justice system. Otherwise it’s a bad joke
– Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) July 23, 2021
Anyone with the profile of Brett Kavanaugh would fail a standard background check for a federal security clearance.
Big debts mysteriously paid? 4,500 tips to the FBI? No chance that it will fly. And yet Trump’s White House waved him through.
– Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) July 22, 2021
So, another quick question: who paid Brett Kavanaugh’s debts? Isn’t that a rather important question?
– George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 23, 2021
The FBI received more than 4,500 tips in its investigation of Brett Kavanaugh
4,500 Tips on Sexual Assault Allegations
4500
Supreme Court injustice
– The sad truth? (@ReportsDaNews) July 23, 2021
Brett Kavanaugh has no place on the Supreme Court.
Pass it.
– Perikalt? (@perikalt) July 23, 2021
Graham Gremore is editor and editor at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
