Reports: 2 New Kavanaugh Accusers, More GOP Deceptions, Plots

Breaking late Sunday were reports of two new sexual misconduct accusers against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as well as new details suggesting several GOP propaganda plots to win his confirmation by deceptive and otherwise sinister methods.

The new allegations of misconduct come from a former Yale College contemporary of the nominee, as reported by The New Yorker magazine writers Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, and by litigator Michael Avenatti. Avenatti has not named the accuser but made a blockbuster allegation on Twitter, summarized here by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call:

“We are aware of significant evidence of multiple house parties in the Washington, D.C., area during the 1980s” during which Kavanaugh and others “would participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them,” Avenatti wrote.

Avenatti (shown in a portrait) said he would provide additional evidence in the coming days.

Kavanaugh, who has denied any wrongdoing, is shown below at left in a yearbook photo taken during his senior year at Georgetown Prep. Critics of the nomination speculate that Republicans knew more allegations were coming and that’s why Senate Republicans fought so hard to prevent an FBI investigation and to hold a vote or hearing on today, or Wednesday at the latest.

Also on Sunday, negotiators for the Senate Judiciary Committee Republican majority and Kavanaugh’s first accuser, Dr. Christine Brasey Ford, reached an apparent agreement on the major outlines of her scheduled testimony against the nominee, who is currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after a disputed confirmation in which Democrats accused him of perjury regarding emails stolen from Democratic Senate staffers.

The nominee and his accuser, who is a professor based in California, are now confirmed to speak Thursday of this week before the committee on the same day at separate times.

Meanwhile, several news outlets were reporting details and speculation about several alleged Republican public relations / propaganda plots to defend Kavanaugh by planting false or misleading information in the media.

Perhaps most notable were efforts to smear an innocent prep school classmate of Kavanaugh’s with a false suggestion that the classmate was the attempted rapist whom Brasey (the name she uses professionally) had described.

Washington Post opinion columnist Kathleen Parker had first floated the concept of mistaken identity in a column on Sept. 18, Opinion: Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger?

The Ethics and Public Policy Center’s president, Edward Whelan, right, a friend of Kavanaugh’s and head of a right-wing think tank, then heavily promoted the idea, including naming one of Kavanaugh’s classmates as a suspect.

Brasey on Friday thwarted that concept by writing that Whelan was wrong.

Whelan then retracted. But critics demanded answers on whether Whelan and the well-connected GOP-oriented public relations firm he used, CRC Public Relations, coordinated his campaign with Kavanaugh, the White House, the Washington Post’s Parker and / or financial backers of the Kavanaugh appointment. Among the many columns providing groundwork for suspicions of secret relationships are one by Politico, PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi

Politico’s Quint Forgey reported on Sunday: Ed Whelan taking ‘leave of absence’ after posting Kavanaugh theory.

Among other important developments, President Trump’s praised Kavanaugh on Sinclair Broadcasting Corp., as reported by Media Matters in Opinion: In an interview with Sinclair, Trump touts Kavanaugh’s “unblemished record” and says he thinks he will be confirmed.

Trump is shown at left with Sinclair host Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump staffer. Sinclair requires all its stations to carry Epshteyn’s commentaries, which nearly always praise or otherwise defer to Trump and other Republicans. Sinclair owns more television stations by far than any other U.S. chain.

The now-chaotic nomination process has prompted revelations affecting all three branches of the federal government, plus the nation’s mid-term elections in November and the news media, particularly credibility of specific outlets and their working relationships with sources.

As another example of relationships typically hidden from the public and now being revealed with sinister #MeToo and other implications:

CRC, the public relations firm used by Whelan, a Harvard Law School graduate shown at right, loaned a staffer to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s committee. But the staffer was forced to resign over the weekend following revelations that he had been fired from a previous job on a claim of sexual harassment.

That Grassley and his chief of staff had been fighting Kavanaugh’s accuser in the media and otherwise in a variety of respects, including opposing an FBI investigation, detracted from the committee’s credibility and that of the overall process.

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