Oh no, not a calendar!
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh has calendars from the summer of 1982 that he plans to hand over to the Senate Judiciary Committee that do not show a party consistent with the description of his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, according to someone working for his confirmation.
Dear Diary: Today did not go to party where did not assault Christine Blasey who was not there and neither was I.
The calendars do not disprove Dr. Blasey’s allegations, Judge Kavanaugh’s team acknowledged. He could have attended a party that he did not list. But his team will argue to the senators that the calendars provide no corroboration for her account of a small gathering at a house where he allegedly pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothing.
Amazing! He will produce evidence that does not show he assaulted Christine Blasey when he was 17 and she was 15. Who could have seen that coming?!
The calendar pages from June, July and August 1982, which were examined by The New York Times, show that Judge Kavanaugh was out of town much of the summer at the beach or away with his parents. When he was at home, the calendars list his basketball games, movie outings, football workouts and college interviews. A few parties are mentioned but include names of friends other than those identified by Dr. Blasey.
*gasp* What a bombshell! I’m sure he recorded every single name of every single person who was at every single gathering he attended that summer. I’m sure there’s no chance that he could have recorded some people but not all.
God I hate these people.
A couple of questions leap to mind.
Who saves calendars? Diaries, yes, but calendars?
Will the ink have dried before they are produced as evidence that they prove….erm…..nothing?
Will the SJC reject them as an obvious ploy that is irrelevant to the inquiry?
I know the answer to the last question.
I know memory is a strange and treacherous thing, but how can Kavanaugh claim simultaneously to remember 1982 well enough to deny assaulting a teenage girl but can’t remember anything about the years he spent in the Bush White House?
And now more shoes are dropping. Ronan Farrow has reported in the New Yorker of another woman subjected to Brett’s drunken and boorish behavior, this time at Yale. Quelle surprise.
Let’s also see his calendar from Yale: “Totally did not shove my penis in Debbie Ramirez’s face today.” (Check out Ronan Farrow’s bombshell in the New Yorker, and note that GOP staffers knew this was coming last week — and their response was to try to rush a vote through.)
Oh, and now Avanetti is tweeting that he has a client with information about Kavanaugh and Mark Judge. (Not Ramirez. And he doesn’t describe her as an accuser or victim, so he or she might just be a supporting witness to an existing allegation.)
Meanwhile, Rick Wilson is tweeting “Tomorrow. Brace for impact.” Unclear if he’s referring to Kavanaugh or Trump/Mueller related stuff.
Hang on to your hats, folks.
Some notes:
1. Calendars can show the then future, as intentions, and in general do not show the places and events that their owners will not be attending. Such a list would be vast.
2. Diaries are what hold an account of the past. Is there one to refer to?
3. Dr Blasey could be wrong: having been groped as a teenager by so many randy would-be lawyers etc that she has lost count or is confused by her grope-crowded memory.
4. Kavanaugh could have a genuine memory lapse, particularly if he groped so many females when a teenager that his memory of detail is blurred and smudged beyond de-smudging.
5. Do both Dr Blasey and Judge Kavanaugh have equal motivation for lying on the matter, or for concealing the truth; in each case?
This is not a criminal trial. It is an evaluation of a job application.
Oh My God!
It looks like I didn’t even exist in 1982. I thought I did; I was born quite a ways earlier…and I still exist…but I just looked at a 1982 daily calendar someone must have given me around that time…and EVERY PAGE IS BLANK!
I think I desperately need psychological help
So here’s the current list of charges:
1. Did Kavanaugh attempt to rape Ford?
2. Was K involved in other rapes/attempted rapes/sexual assaults during his Georgetown Prep years?
3. Did K sexually assault Ramirez at Yale?
4. Did K lie to the committee and/or to investigators about any of the above?
5. Did K lie to the committee and/or to investigators about his knowledge of stolen Democratic Senate emails during the Bush administration?
6. Did K withhold documents sought by the committee?
7. Has K adequately explained some of the strange details of his finances, such as how he affords a lavish lifestyle, including two children in private school and an expensive country club, on a generous-by-most-standards-but-hardly-rich federal judge’s salary?
8. Was K involved in Whelan’s attempt to frame an innocent man for the alleged assault on Ford?
I’m probably forgetting a couple. And these are just the accusations of personal wrongdoing — I’m ignoring the other reasons to vote against him, such as his judicial views (and his presumed lies about them).
Approximately 80 trillion things on Planet Earth don’t provide corroboration of Ford’s account. So what?
So you admit there are 80 trillion pieces of evidence against her!
I wonder if he is dishonest enough to add some of those things recently to make it seem like he was in the habit of listing house parties back then…
Claire, #2;
Oh, that’s an easy one. Work’s boring, once the day’s done it’s forgotten about, but I’m sure that every man remembers with perfect clarity the important details of their lives, such as all the times they didn’t assault women and all the parties they didn’t attend to not assault them at. You can tell how important it was for Kavanaugh to remember the non-assaults at the parties he didn’t go to by how carefully he didn’t write them into his calendar.
@AoS :-D For sure. I mean, who remembers dull things like inventing a legal basis for torture? Snore. But everyone remembers exactly where they weren’t when they weren’t trying to rape people.
Seriously, who keeps calendars from when they were in high school? That’s so hinky right there. I just don’t understand what this calendar is meant to prove, even if I believed it to be real (which I sincerely doubt). Even a diary or journal is not exactly evidence. You couldn’t even use such a thing to prove somebody was somewhere, let alone where they were not. Back in 1982, it was pretty difficult to prove anyone had been anywhere (witness statements notwithstanding) unless they got on a plane or left the country. Even then, I’m not sure the records would exist now.
Aargh, this is so stupid. And Kavanaugh was an idiot. He’d have been far better to own up to heavy drinking in HS, say he doesn’t remember assaulting anyone but if he did overstep his bounds then he’s really sorry to have caused anyone any pain. He then could describe a “come to Jesus” moment (the evangelicals love those) and explain that he’s a changed man. If he’d done that, I think it would have defanged the accusations early on and probably would have been confirmed by now.
I’m not saying that’s morally right since the man’s clearly a liar and a terrible person but just considering it purely from a PR and optics POV. By denying the accusations outright, he actually made things harder for himself. Chances are he really doesn’t remember doing it. Not just because of the drinking (although that won’t have helped) but because it wouldn’t have been remarkable to him.
I’m fascinated at the sheer nerve of attempting to use the calendar as proof of innocence, and can’t help but wonder exactly how they’re going to play it.
Is the argument going to be that Kavanaugh is a faultlessly honest man (so honest that Lincoln was a Trump by comparison, don’t you know) and impeccable record keeper, so the fact that his calendar entry for the night in question doesn’t say ‘Went to party, tried to tear clothes off struggling girl, wingman ruined it by jumping on us giving girl chance to run. Boy oh boy, better luck next time’, then obviously it never happened?
AoS, I think you’ve nailed it. That’s exactly what they plan, I imagine. And they’ll bring up the good family man trope, too.