American Bar Association reopens evaluation of #Kavanaugh's "well-qualified" rating, based on his unhinged performance during a Senate hearing last week pbs.org/newshour/polit…
"The article referred to a typical Holton [the private HS from which Ford graduated] student as a “Holton Hosebag,” which meant a “woman who exists for a man’s pleasure, a human receptacle for semen, and just thrown away like you would a bag" washingtonpost.com/local/celebrat…
"We had no concern for the truth," Mark Judge wrote. "We were mocking people without pointing to what we found good — aside from drinking, sex and violent homemade movies.”
What exactly did that last one entail? Recording drunken sexual assaults?
"McGahn told Trump that even though the White House was facing a storm of condemnation for limiting the F.B.I. background check into #Kavanaugh, a wide-ranging inquiry would be potentially disastrous for his chances of confirmation to the Supreme Court" nytimes.com/2018/10/05/us/…
So this is why a single copy of the FBI report was provided for 100 senators, which they were given minutes to read, in a SCIF, and barred from discussing publicly.
Even the FBI's sham investigation could not obscure the fact of #Kavanaugh's perjury.
Thread on article in #pt. The manipulation of the FBI investigation is the fulfillment of Trump's goal: shield allies from accountability, "lock her up" for adversaries
“Hellllllooooo. Don’t F****** TELL PEOPLE BRETT GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME!!! I TOLD YOU AT THE TIME THAT WAS IN CONFIDENCE!!!”
Two of #Kavanaugh's classmates reveals texts indicating possible witness tampering before Debbie Ramirez's allegations became public nbcnews.com/politics/supre…
The missing 93%:
Two FOIA lawsuits point to thousands of #Kavanaugh documents that have not been disclosed to the Senate, including his role in the Senate hacking scandal & his work on the USA Patriot Act and domestic surveillance programs @nycsouthpawyahoo.com/news/lawsuits-…
Among the tips FBI received: a Yale classmate's allegation that an “uncontrollably, incoherently drunk” #Kavanaugh vandalized his truck, & refused to pay for the damage when confronted at a meeting of Truth and Courage, the secret society both belonged to wsj.com/livecoverage/k…
"Truth and Courage members met twice weekly through senior year to hang out and drink. When “heavily drunk,” #Kavanaugh could turn “belligerent, offensive and even possibly criminal," the notarized statement says." (h/t @KagroX)
Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Interpol president Meng Hongwei reported missing after trip to his native China; his wife hasn't heard from him since he left France at the end of September nbcnews.com/news/world/int…
"China has not commented officially on Meng Hongwei's disappearance & there was no mention of him in official media"
French police investigate disappearance of Interpol chief, place his wife under protection after receiving threats by phone & social media irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
"The initial working assumption of Western investigators was Mr Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result."
"A report by Washington Economics Group, whose clients include businesses like Nascar, projected that automatic restoration of voting rights would lead to $365 million/year in gains for Florida's economy, from lower prison costs and increased productivity"
Amazing statistic: the recidivism rate for people who had their voting rights automatically restored under Gov. Crist is 12.4%, vs a state average of 30%.
Also noteworthy: Charles and David Koch's network has declared support for Amendment 4.
.@nycsouthpaw: When career prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asked #Kavanaugh about his drinking & the July 1 party where Judge and Smyth were in attendance – a key date that aligns with Ford's account – Republican senators then came to his rescue and benched her yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh…
Trump says he rejected a one-on-one meeting with Justin Trudeau at the #UNGA, threatens tariffs on Canada auto exports: "We're going to tax the cars coming in, and we'll put billions and billions into our treasury .. Canada has treated us very badly"
Aside from his economic illiteracy (Americans pay the tariff, not foreign exporters), his personal animus towards Trudeau and Canada – neighbors, close allies, brothers and sisters – is senseless and destructive.
As several people (@martindvassolo, @realshawnbrandt, @AdamWeinstein) have documented, these aren't random "Republican voters," as @CNN would have you believe, but well-connected GOP candidates, operatives & activists.