Official Brett Kavanaugh Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Avenatti owes $5 million in taxes. Is he being funded by liberal money (like Soros) to take down Kavanaugh?


But you have no problem with $200k of Kavanaugh debt disappearing mysteriously?

I'm sure his parents paid it off for him. That's not the same as someone bribing someone to destroy a oerson's reputation.



Is it considered income if someone pays your debts? If his parents (or anyone else) paid of his debt, does he have to declare that as income and pay taxes on it?

It's income, but it wouldn't be taxable. It would go count toward the entire amount the estate that can pass tax-free, which is currently more than $5 million per person.


But he claims that the 200k were Nats tickets for "friends". If his parents paid that off, it means his "friends" got a big gift from the judge ...

Those are two different scenarios. He's saying that his friends paid him back, so there would be no impact.

If however - and this is purely an academic argument - his friends did not pay him back for the tickets, and instead his parents paid off that debt, the argument could be that the parents indirectly purchased baseball tickets for his friends. That's certainly legal.

The third scenario is that there were no tickets at all, and he ran up that debt from whatever. It is perfectly legal for his parents to pay it off. He doesn't even have to pay tax on it, although it will come to account when his parents' estate passes.
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Anonymous wrote:I have not read through the whole thread so I apologize if this has already been asked. My post was deleted on there for reasons I don’t quite understand.

I am as anti-Trump is the next person. However, I do understand that people are convicting BK with little to no evidence. That said why don’t earth would she make it up? Her life is being threatened and obviously will never be the same, or at least not for a long while. It’s not like she claimed he raped her... So why would she make up this sort of middle of the road story? It’s not like she is some crazed Democrat and everyone knows that if this guy doesn’t make it there will be another one in line. So what would be her motive?

Her motive would be to keep an anti-abortion judge off the Court. She is a very liberal California professor who hired a well-known liberal activist to help her accomplish this.


She’s really not that liberal. And really has no background in politics. It’s a stretch to say that she would put her life and her family’s life on the line like this if there were no truth to it.

Plus there are dozens of people now coming forward to say that the Ramirez accusation is not at all out of character.

We shall see...


Any cites for this?



The New Yorker article quotes at least half a dozen people who are saying they could envision this happening and that Ramirez was a quiet, shy outsider who often got taken advantage of in situations like these.. Combine that with those who talk about what kind of crew he ran with at GP - and the yearbook stuff - and it does look somewhat incriminating.

I absolutely admit there are a lot of others who say they can’t envision it. I just find it very unlikely that either of these women made these stories up. It just makes no sense that they would have.


In my reading of the article, only the anonymous classmate says it. Krasberg doesn't say it, nor does Richard Oh, both of whom are mentioned by name. At the end, the story discusses six classmates, three of whom are anonymous, who dispute Ramirez's story and say it would have been out of character for Brett..

Please tell us who the other five people are in the article besides anonymous classmate who say they could envision Kavanaugh doing this.

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But he claims that the 200k were Nats tickets for "friends". If his parents paid that off, it means his "friends" got a big gift from the judge ...


For the thousandth time, there was ever $200k in baseball tickets!!! The form says, how much indebtedness do you have? It has a bunch of check boxes with ranges, and he checked the box that said, "between $60k and $200k." If you are going to (try to) make a point, at least get the facts straight.
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But Kavanaugh won't admit to his parents paying his debts. He looks like a mooch and his parents made that money as Swamp Creatures.

I mean, Kavanaugh is basically the opposite of everything that the GOP supposedly supports ("the self-made man").
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Anonymous wrote:Is every confirmation hearing now going to include the question, "so judge, did you ever try to get to second base in high school?"

Hirono consistently asks every nominee (not just SCOTUS) if they have ever committed sexual assault or signed an NDA.
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Anonymous wrote:One of the most upsetting elements of the New Yorker story was how revealing it was of frat brat culture back then, and now. It wasn’t written cruelly, but it was noted that kind Debbie Martinez was a gentle outsider, and that Kavanaugh and friends were manipulative, hard-partying wolves. Really hard to see how anyone can discount the story - there was hearsay corroboration, and this isn’t a criminal trial. It just has laid bare the entitlement that has been the foundation of his life.

He and his wife are going to just say the other women all decided to lie? Quite a strategy.


Yes, his wife will say she has never witnessed this type of behavior and her husband is a saint.

I still want to know how they are living in Chevy Chase on a judge’s salary paying two private tuitions and a country club membership.

I have no idea what his HHI is, but his parents could give them $60,000 a year tax-free, and probably are. It's quite common in upper-middle class (and up) families.


Possible. Do judges get lifestyle poly’s?

I don't get why it would be a problem if his parents have a gifting program in effect. It's quite common, as I said.


It’s not. But if it’s someone unrelated that’s another story.
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Anonymous wrote:One of the most upsetting elements of the New Yorker story was how revealing it was of frat brat culture back then, and now. It wasn’t written cruelly, but it was noted that kind Debbie Martinez was a gentle outsider, and that Kavanaugh and friends were manipulative, hard-partying wolves. Really hard to see how anyone can discount the story - there was hearsay corroboration, and this isn’t a criminal trial. It just has laid bare the entitlement that has been the foundation of his life.

He and his wife are going to just say the other women all decided to lie? Quite a strategy.


Yes, his wife will say she has never witnessed this type of behavior and her husband is a saint.

I still want to know how they are living in Chevy Chase on a judge’s salary paying two private tuitions and a country club membership.

I have no idea what his HHI is, but his parents could give them $60,000 a year tax-free, and probably are. It's quite common in upper-middle class (and up) families.


Possible. Do judges get lifestyle poly’s?

I have come to understand that his first background check was very, very long and he was only allowed to move forward at W’s pleasure.


Did that include W getting him drunk and then waggling his schlong in Kavanaugh's face? And if not why not if that's NBD, just boys having fun?
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Anonymous wrote:But Kavanaugh won't admit to his parents paying his debts. He looks like a mooch and his parents made that money as Swamp Creatures.

I mean, Kavanaugh is basically the opposite of everything that the GOP supposedly supports ("the self-made man").


If his debt was around $60,000 (see PP's earlier post) and his parents had a gifting program, his parents wouldn't have paid off his debt. They would have paid him their normal yearly gift and he would have chosen to use it to pay off his debt.
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But he claims that the 200k were Nats tickets for "friends". If his parents paid that off, it means his "friends" got a big gift from the judge ...


For the thousandth time, there was ever $200k in baseball tickets!!! The form says, how much indebtedness do you have? It has a bunch of check boxes with ranges, and he checked the box that said, "between $60k and $200k." If you are going to (try to) make a point, at least get the facts straight.


You’re missing the point. There were never $60k (or more) of baseball tickets.
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Anonymous wrote:One of the most upsetting elements of the New Yorker story was how revealing it was of frat brat culture back then, and now. It wasn’t written cruelly, but it was noted that kind Debbie Martinez was a gentle outsider, and that Kavanaugh and friends were manipulative, hard-partying wolves. Really hard to see how anyone can discount the story - there was hearsay corroboration, and this isn’t a criminal trial. It just has laid bare the entitlement that has been the foundation of his life.

He and his wife are going to just say the other women all decided to lie? Quite a strategy.


Yes, his wife will say she has never witnessed this type of behavior and her husband is a saint.

I still want to know how they are living in Chevy Chase on a judge’s salary paying two private tuitions and a country club membership.

I have no idea what his HHI is, but his parents could give them $60,000 a year tax-free, and probably are. It's quite common in upper-middle class (and up) families.


Possible. Do judges get lifestyle poly’s?

I don't get why it would be a problem if his parents have a gifting program in effect. It's quite common, as I said.


It’s not. But if it’s someone unrelated that’s another story.


Again. It’s not a problem if his parents have a gifting program. The problem is that Whitehouse specifically asked him about his 60-200k debt repayment and how he paid that off and he specifically said it was payback for buying baseball tickets under oath. He’s already committed perjury a few times, so what’s one more?
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Anonymous wrote:I have not read through the whole thread so I apologize if this has already been asked. My post was deleted on there for reasons I don’t quite understand.

I am as anti-Trump is the next person. However, I do understand that people are convicting BK with little to no evidence. That said why don’t earth would she make it up? Her life is being threatened and obviously will never be the same, or at least not for a long while. It’s not like she claimed he raped her... So why would she make up this sort of middle of the road story? It’s not like she is some crazed Democrat and everyone knows that if this guy doesn’t make it there will be another one in line. So what would be her motive?

Her motive would be to keep an anti-abortion judge off the Court. She is a very liberal California professor who hired a well-known liberal activist to help her accomplish this.

Come on. Yes, I’m sure she feels the death threats and having to relocate her family, and separate them, is worth what you describe.
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Anonymous wrote:Avenatti owes $5 million in taxes. Is he being funded by liberal money (like Soros) to take down Kavanaugh?


Judge Kavenaugh very recently owed 200k in credit card debt-that debt suddenly was paid by undisclosed sources. Who is he beholden to for it? Last time I checked Avenatti wasn't trying to get on the supreme court.
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Anonymous wrote:Brett and Ashley will be interviewed tonight on the cozy confines of Fox News.


“WH comms director accused of covering up sexual misconduct at Fox chooses Fox host who defended network's leading perpetrator of sexual misconduct to interview SCOTUS nominee accused of sexual misconduct who was picked by president accused of sexual misconduct.”
- Matthew Gertz
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Anonymous wrote:One of the most upsetting elements of the New Yorker story was how revealing it was of frat brat culture back then, and now. It wasn’t written cruelly, but it was noted that kind Debbie Martinez was a gentle outsider, and that Kavanaugh and friends were manipulative, hard-partying wolves. Really hard to see how anyone can discount the story - there was hearsay corroboration, and this isn’t a criminal trial. It just has laid bare the entitlement that has been the foundation of his life.

He and his wife are going to just say the other women all decided to lie? Quite a strategy.


Yes, his wife will say she has never witnessed this type of behavior and her husband is a saint.

I still want to know how they are living in Chevy Chase on a judge’s salary paying two private tuitions and a country club membership.

I have no idea what his HHI is, but his parents could give them $60,000 a year tax-free, and probably are. It's quite common in upper-middle class (and up) families.


Possible. Do judges get lifestyle poly’s?

I don't get why it would be a problem if his parents have a gifting program in effect. It's quite common, as I said.


It’s not. But if it’s someone unrelated that’s another story.


Again. It’s not a problem if his parents have a gifting program. The problem is that Whitehouse specifically asked him about his 60-200k debt repayment and how he paid that off and he specifically said it was payback for buying baseball tickets under oath. He’s already committed perjury a few times, so what’s one more?


Yeah, when will they ever learn. It’s the lying. It’s always the lying.
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Anonymous wrote:I have not read through the whole thread so I apologize if this has already been asked. My post was deleted on there for reasons I don’t quite understand.

I am as anti-Trump is the next person. However, I do understand that people are convicting BK with little to no evidence. That said why don’t earth would she make it up? Her life is being threatened and obviously will never be the same, or at least not for a long while. It’s not like she claimed he raped her... So why would she make up this sort of middle of the road story? It’s not like she is some crazed Democrat and everyone knows that if this guy doesn’t make it there will be another one in line. So what would be her motive?

Her motive would be to keep an anti-abortion judge off the Court. She is a very liberal California professor who hired a well-known liberal activist to help her accomplish this.


I'd like to keep an anti-abortion judge off the SC, but I'd never make up a story like this and ruin my life. It's not worth it, even though I do not want Kavanaugh on the SC. Only a completely crazy person would do such a thing, and from all accounts, Ford is not crazy.

BTW, PP, I don't believe you are anti-Trump for a minute.
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