Shoes gonna keep dropping… what will be the over/under on a withdrawal from the nomination.
Investigators in Montgomery County confirmed Monday they’re aware of a potential second sexual assault complaint in the county against former Georgetown Prep student and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
While investigators weren’t specific and spoke on background, they said they are looking at allegations against Kavanaugh during his senior year in high school after an anonymous witness came forward this weekend.
This would potentially bring the number to four women accusing Kavanaugh of wrongdoing and comes after Deborah Ramirez, a former Yale college student, stepped forward this weekend to accuse Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her in college, and after attorney Michael Avenatti tweeted out a message saying he represents a woman with “credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh and Mark Judge.”
In an email to Mike Davis, the chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee, Avenatti said he had evidence that at house parties in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and his friend Judge and others plied women with alcohol and drugs, “In order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them.”
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Avenatti’s insistence on anonymity is making the distinction among three, four, or many more accusers more difficult.
As Republicans wrestle with the increasingly complicated politics of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, it’s getting even harder to envision him winning confirmation.
That’s true for those who think his chances have dipped far below 50 percent, and even for some who once thought he was a sure thing but now see a slight chance that he withdraws or loses a Senate floor vote.
On the odds-making site PredictIt, shares of Kavanaugh becoming the next Supreme Court justice have dropped 4 cents to 32 cents, compared to 68 cents for his nomination failing.
And even as the White House and the Republican National Committee maneuvered to undercut new allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, a White House official told NBC News on Sunday night that there are no plans to back out — the kind of tepid endorsement that sometimes precedes the abandonment of an embattled nominee or administration official.