Official Brett Kavanaugh Thread, Part 2

[Anonymous]

The one thing the outside counsel did was highlight at the very beginning that #Ford was texting on an encrypted app with a Washington Post reporter BEFORE she wrote the letter to Feinstein. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.

Rep. B.J. Nikkel

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mitchell is doing a good job. She is really revealing holes in her memory.

No, she's not

+1 Mitchell is doing a good job of trying to establish the facts of the story, and to get clarification and more detail on key elements. Those are not holes, no matter how much you want them to be.

Ford just admitted to not hearing conversation, yet claimed the people downstairs were talking in her letter and testimony.
May seem small.... but details like this are important since she lacks so many other details.

Actually no, because the conversation downstairs has nothing to do with the crime. She didn't say "I heard them saying XYZ" and then change the story. She made a very natural, understandable assumption that people at the party were not sitting in silence. This is how human beings talk and tell stories.

There have been numerous psychiatrists with no political axe to grind who have noted that gaps in memory are normal around traumatic events.

[Anonymous]

So, she is so traumatized from this incident that she suffers from several psychological issues, but 6-8 weeks, she sees one of her “attackers” and initiates conversation with him?

That, to me is just not credible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CBJ body language and micro expressions is that she is smiling at her cleverness.

WTF. You are a sociopath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She said hello to her attacker? Not "Mom, that boy sexually assaulted me"?

I was violently sexually assaulted 32 years ago. I saw my attacker every damn day for the next two year and never said a word to anyone. Still today - almost 33 years later - two people know. Me and him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got to hand it to the GOP for having this female prosecutor do the questioning. Well done, Republicans. This is helping their case big time.

Chris Wallace of Fox News disagrees.

So do it.

The optics here are horrible and the format Grassley chose is actually undercutting any sort of impact Mitchell might have.

[Anonymous]

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Actually no, because the conversation downstairs has nothing to do with the crime. She didn't say "I heard them saying XYZ" and then change the story. She made a very natural, understandable assumption that people at the party were not sitting in silence. This is how human beings talk and tell stories.

Yeah, she said she heard them talking on the way down the stairs then heard people talking when she left the house

I am not a lawyer but I don't see how that line of questioning was very useful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I’m agreeing with Megyn Kelly. That’s a first.

What is she saying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She said hello to her attacker? Not "Mom, that boy sexually assaulted me"?

She did not want her parents to know what happened. She would have been in a world of trouble for drinking with boys in a house with no adults present. She wanted to pretend that it never happened. She detailed all of this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mitchell is in way over her head. This is going to back fire. She is used to acting as a prosector, and asking questions she already knows the answer to. She's not going to get anything from Ford. It's almost like she is gearing up or fishing for a "catch you in a lie" question, and it's making Ford look highly sympathetic. Plus, Mitchell is not managing her time well by digging into details and asking question after question and then getting interrupted by her time being up. Mitchell is swimming in this so far and she is drowning.

Agreed. She’s cross examining the alleged assault victim. That’s backwards.

[Anonymous]

What did Meghan Kelly say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Agreed. She’s cross examining the alleged assault victim. That’s backwards.

Right, so she's acting like Kavanaugh's defense attorney at the moment. Will be interesting to see how she treats Kavanaugh

[Anonymous]

I honestly don’t believe her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got to hand it to the GOP for having this female prosecutor do the questioning. Well done, Republicans. This is helping their case big time.

Chris Wallace of Fox News disagrees.

So do it.

The optics here are horrible and the format Grassley chose is actually undercutting any sort of impact Mitchell might have.

She only gets 55 minutes of questioning and she's trying to do it fairly and non-emotionally. She might fail on an emotional level, but she's scoring BIG points on a logical level.

If Kavanaugh is not confirmed, this sort of BS will continue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I’m agreeing with Megyn Kelly. That’s a first.

What is she saying?

She basically said she believes CBF. That she’d have to be a hell of an actress.