Saturday, May 3, 2025

Mitchell Seeks Inconsistencies in Kavanaugh Accuser’s Account

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‘I can’t recall whether she saw them directly or whether I just told her what they said…’

Rachel Mitchell/IMAGE: screenshot via Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Largely coming off as sympathetic, composed and confident during opening testimony, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford described her memories of the alleged incident that occurred in the summer of 1992 after a day of swimming at the Columbia Country Club.

While she did not add many additional details of the assault itself from what already had been reported in her Washington Post narrative, she attempted to lend credibility to the story and put a personal face on it.

“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter—the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense,” she recounted, describing how the 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, pinballed down the stairs afterward.

She also described having a second encounter with Judge after the episode at the Potomac Village Safeway, where he worked.

“I was with my mother, and I was a teenager, so I wanted her to go in one door and me the other. I chose the wrong door,” she said.

After running into Judge, she said, “His face was white and very uncomfortable saying hello back… He was just nervous and not wanting to speak with me—he looked a little bit ill.”

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, during his five minutes of questioning, called on Judge to come forward.

“Mark Judge should be subpoenaed from his Bethany Beach hideaway and required to testify, but he has not.”

Interrogator Rachel Mitchell interacted cordially with Ford while asking questions that were intended to put holes in her testimony, asking her about inconsistencies in the time frame and the fact that she claimed to have heard a conversation downstairs despite the loud music coming from the room where she claimed to be assaulted.

One line of questioning seemed to be directed toward the accuracy of the counseling notes that Ford referred to as corroborating her previous disclosure of the assault episode. There seemed to be a question as to whether she specifically named Kavanaugh in them or whether she just said generically that a federal judge had assaulted her.

Ford said she had consulted her counseling notes with the counselor after the fact using an online module to confirm what she had said, and although her interview with the Washington Post happened only two weeks ago, she could not recall if the reporter had a copy of the notes or if they were just summarized.

“I can’t recall whether she saw them directly or whether I just told her what they said.”

Mitchell also followed up on Ford’s fear of flying, which she claimed had prevented her from testifying earlier.

“I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane.”

Mitchell followed up by asking about her frequent traveling for vacation and yearly trips to visit her family on the East Coast.

“It’s easier to travel the other way … when it’s on a vacation,” she said.

Grassley Opens Kavanaugh Hearing with Criticism of Feinstein, Dems

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‘This will be a stark contrast to the grandstanding and chaos that we saw from the other side…’

Grassley Opens Kavanaugh Hearing with Criticism of
Christine Blasey Ford and Sen. Chuck Grassley/IMAGE: Fox News

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Sen. Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened the hearing on allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with scathing criticism on the Democratic tactics that had led to incivility and undermined the privacy of both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.

“This is a shameful way to treat our witness, who insisted on confidentiality, and of course Judge Kavanaugh, who has had to address these allegations in the midst of a media circus.”

He directly criticized Ranking Member Sen. Dianne Feinstein for having kept secret the letter that Ford had given to Democrats from July 30 to Sept. 13, saying the allegations could have been investigated more thoroughly and maintained Ford’s confidentiality if it had been properly handled.

He clarified that the calls to send the allegations to the FBI for investigation were not a normal procedure, quoting then Sen. Joe Biden during the Anita Hill hearings against Justice Clarence Thomas in the early 90s.

“The FBI explicitly does not in this or any other case, reach a conclusion,” he quoted Biden as saying. However, he said the Judiciary Committee had conducted its own thorough investigations. Moreover, he pointed out the fact that Kavanaugh had been vetted by the FBI no less than six times in the past.

“Nowhere in any of these six FBI reports … was there a whiff of any issue … to inappropriate sexual behavior.”

Grassley also addressed the use of female prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, a sex-crimes expert, to conduct the interrogation.

“This will be a stark contrast to the grandstanding and chaos that we saw from the other side.”

Grassley seemed determined to be overly accommodating to Ford, introducing moments of levity after Ford’s opening statement by breaking to get her coffee.

“We’re here to accommodate you, not you accommodate us,” he said after asking when she wanted to take a break.

“I’m used to being collegial,” Ford replied.

Interrogator Rachel Mitchell seemed to come close to rattling Ford on a few questions while trying to seek corrections of the record.

Overall, Ford, despite a vocal fry when recounting her story, seemed well composed. She indicated she was “100 percent” certain it was Kavanaugh, despite letters from two men the evening prior that were submitted to the Judiciary Committee from men claiming they were the assaulters.

Susan Rice Tells Students to ‘Call B.S. on Older People’

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‘It is so important for you to call B.S. on older people who are perpetuating and exploiting these divisions…’

SOURCES: Susan Rice Behind Unmasking of Trump Officials
Susan Rice/Photo by New America (CC)

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The approaching election has brought out some frightening specters from the past.

Susan Rice–former national security adviser, U.N. ambassador, Benghazi spin doctor and domestic surveillance unmasker–acknowledged enough when she promised students at the University of Pennsylvania that she may return to haunt them.

“Look, if y’all don’t vote, I’m going to come up here and haunt every single one of you,” said Rice, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Rice currently is a visiting fellow at Penn, but her most prominent role since leaving the White House was joining the board of Netflix shortly before Barack and Michelle Obama inked a lucrative development deal with the streaming entertainment company.

Rice also told the Penn audience that it was time to stop listening to their elders and take charge. “It is so important for young people to be engaged, and it is so important for you to call B.S. on older people who are perpetuating and exploiting these divisions,” she said.

Her visit came on the heels of similar campaign style events over the past week featuring both Obamas and former Attorney General  Eric Holder, all promoting a similar “get out the vote” message with an “us versus them” subtext geared toward low-information voters.

At a recent rally in Las Vegas, Michelle Obama reminded voters that they could vote even if they “know nothing” about current events, and that they needed to be sure not to let “other people” run the democracy.

Her husband, meanwhile, trolled President Donald Trump by taking credit for the robust economy that has helped buoy the current chief executive.

Trump responded, in turn, by saying he fell asleep during Obama’s speech.

Dems Show Hypocrisy in Hiring Special Woman Investigator of Ellison

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‘This strikes me as taking chickens**t behavior to a whole new level….’

DNC Chair Ellison Attended Private Dinner w. Iran’s President and Farrakhan
Keith Ellison/Photo by Karen Smith Murphy (CC)

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Democrats on Tuesday tried to lambast Senate Republicans for a decision to have a female prosecutor interrogate Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford.

But in doing so, they once again showed little self-awareness, given the fact that a similar move to outsource to an external female investigator was taken in the case of Keith Ellison, current deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, over whether he physically assaulted former partner Karen Monahan.

With Congressional testimony scheduled for tomorrow in the Kavanaugh hearing, both sides are angling to present themselves in the best light.

Ford’s lawyers have issued an unprecedented list of demands to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including which type of cameras and what media outlets should be allowed into the room, the location of the hearing and size of the room, and the sequence of testimony. (As employment attorney Adam Mill noted on The Federalist, some of these demands should be considered red flags.)

The GOP Senators on the panel, meanwhile, wary of the optics since the last time Democrats attempted to torpedo a Supreme Court nominee with specious rape accusations, announced that they would designate female prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, sex crimes bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, Arizona, to lead the interrogation.

One might expect the Democrats to applaud such a move, allowing Ford the opportunity to tell her harrowing tale of nearly having her clothes removed to a member of the same gender, but predictably, since it ran counter to the Left’s true objective, they invoked Alinsky rule No. 5 by dispatching radical leftist entertainment personalities like Sarah Silverman and Stephen King to mock the move in profanity-laced tweets.

Silverman referred to the Judiciary Panel as a “[expletive] geriatric tone deaf sausage party.”

King said, “This strikes me as taking ‘chicken[expletive] behavior’ to a whole new level.”

Once considered to be a journalist, HBO’s Soledad O’Brien at least was able to temper the language in her caustic commentary enough to make it printable:

Bizarrely, while the Left ridiculed the GOP overture, it did the very same thing in its investigation of Rep. Keith  Ellison, D-Minnesota, who has taken heat for accusations that he physically abused ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan.

Keith Ellison's Accuser Calls Out DNC for Not Believing Her
Karen Monahan/IMAGE: CBS News via Youtube

Those accusations, which the national DNC punted to its state branch in Minnesota to investigate, have given conservatives their latest fodder to point to the Left’s hypocrisy and disingenuous approach to women’s issues. Monahan, unlike Kavanaugh’s accusers, has provided medical records and firsthand witness accounts to corroborate her allegations.

Ellison is currently locked in a race with Republican Doug Wardlow to be elected Minnesota attorney general.

According to an Associated Press report, after Ellison won his primary battle in August, Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, decided to hire an external investigator to be sure “that it wouldn’t be colored by people with associations with the party” (i.e., so Democrats wouldn’t have to get their hands dirty by either backing or repudiating Ellison).

They went with Susan Ellingstad, a partner with the same law firm as their official DFL party attorney, Charlie Nauen. Interestingly, one of the other cases Nauen represented for the firm was the recount that reversed the 2008 election results in favor of disgraced Sen. Al Franken, who himself was later forced to resign amid MeToo groping allegations.

While Democrats in Congress have made clear their desire for a protracted investigation that would forestall the Kavanaugh confirmation vote until after the Nov. 6 midterm elections (when they hope to regain control of Congress), Martin seemed eager to rush into a conclusion of the Ellison investigation and was pressing for a final report, the AP said.

“I’m starting to get a little frustrated because it’s been a long time now, almost two months,” he said. “I hope soon. I hope any day here.”

A poll of 800 Minnesota voters in early September had Ellison with a 5-point edge over Wardlow, though 18 percent remained undecided and neither candidate had a majority. A nearly equal split sided with Ellison and with Monahan, though a whopping 57 percent remained unsure about the investigation.

Cruz Supporters Hit Back at Socialist Dinner Disruptors

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‘No—you can’t eat in peace—your politics are an attack on all of us…’

Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz/IMAGE: Smash Racism DC via Twitter

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Seething over yet another outrageous boundary of civility crossed by militant leftist activists, Ted Cruz supporters may have gone overboard themselves in attacking the restaurant that Cruz and his wife were chased out of on Monday.

Video of the encounter showed a group–clearly not patrons of the posh D.C. Italian restaurant–loudly chanting, getting in the face of Cruz and flipping him off while disrupting the dining experience of everyone there.

White-coated servers are seen holding the door for the Cruzes, and after the Texas senator’s exit, a man with an Italian accent is heard instructing the agitators to “leave the premises; this is a private space.”

The group that posted the video, Smash Racism DC, identifies itself on social media as a branch of Antifa. It attacked Cruz in a series of five discursive and rambling Twitter posts in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, whining about income equality, migrant children, LGBT rights and the Brett Kavanaugh nomination.  “No—you can’t eat in peace—your politics are an attack on all of us,” it began.

Echoing the fallout of an earlier incident in which White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a Lynchburg, Virginia restaurant by its owner, conservative supporters took to crowd-sourcing review site Yelp to vent at the restaurant, Fiola, which is located on Pennsylvania Avenue only a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol and National Mall.

For its part, Fiola responded with a post on its Facebook page, explaining that it tried to act in the best interest of customers’ safety. “Recognizing that there was a potential for escalation and concerned for the safety of all our customers, our management did what they could do to diffuse a difficult situation and, as is our policy, if there is ever an event of this nature, the police were immediately called.”

However, the post added that employees did not intervene more because the wait staff lacked the necessary training to address such a conflict. “We are trained at hospitality not public safety, and our highest priority is always the well-being of our customers.”

While some speculated that the waitstaff may have been complicit in the protest or even tipped the off the protestors, there is no evidence that those with a financial stake in the business, namely owners Fabio and Maria Trabocchi, supported it. A web page for the Trabocchis lists a number of global ‘human rights’ causes they support but also shows them to be pillars of the local business community.

As revealed in a recent video investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas last week, activist radicals have used increasingly sophisticated, subversive and sinister ways of tracking and stalking both public figures and private citizens.

The group that Project Veritas has most focused on exposing in its series of four “deep state” investigations so far is the DC Democratic Socialists of America.

According to the Smash Racism DC Twitter, DCDSA members also were involved in the Cruz protest.

Abortion Ad from 2012 May Explain Ford’s Miraculous Memory ‘Recovery’

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‘With all the histrionics of Ford now jarring front page headlines, it is not easy too see that she’s only the bit player in the #MeToo assassination of Brett Kavanaugh…’

IMAGE: Facebook screenshot via Buzzfeed

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the nation awaits the arrival of Thursday to see whether Christine Blasey Ford–who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a long-ago sexual assault when both were teenagers–will make good on her word by showing up to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, some have done their best to fill in the gaps left by Ford’s uncorroborated Washington Post account.

One of the lingering questions: What possibly could have jostled the California psychology professor’s suppressed memories of the drunken night, then 30 years prior, when she claims she first revealed the story during a counseling session?

Until now, those who question Ford’s motives–in light of her past involvement in anti-Trump demonstrations and her decision to deliver her story directly to Sen. Dianne Feinstein rather than to non-partisan law-enforcement investigators–have struggled to reconcile the timeline with speculation about her vested interest in organized Kavanaugh-smearing campaigns, such as the one covering her legal expenses.

One investigative journalist leading the charge in vetting Ford’s credibility, Canadian Free Press’s Judi McLeod, recently unearthed a 2012 Planned Parenthood ad that may offer the answer.

When it first ran, around Nov. 5 2012, a day before Obama coasted into his second presidential term, Buzzfeed fawningly reported on the “scare” campaign directed at liberals that featured a photoshopped mock-up of a New York Times front page on the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned by the hypothetical Romney administration.

“With all the histrionics of Ford now jarring front page headlines, it is not easy too see that she’s only the bit player in the #MeToo assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, a prop moved forward by Planned Parenthood when the time was right,” McLeod wrote.

The ad features Kavanaugh photoshopped into an illustration of the Supreme Court, which still features the late Antonin Scalia and retiring Anthony Kennedy but is absent the octogenarian left-wing pillar Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The ad tellingly reveals that Kavanaugh, due to his rising star and his political views, already was on the radar of the well-heeled leftist “resistance.”

Although such a long-con operation might previously have been unfathomable, the magnitude of chutzpah and the level of coordination in the Left’s efforts to undermine political adversaries has since become evident in President Donald Trump’s exposing of partisan activists embedded in the ‘deep state’ federal bureaucracy.

Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner explained Kavanaugh’s credentials as follows:

“Although not a household name, Kavanaugh, who had served on the staff of Kenneth Starr during his Independent Counsel investigation of President Clinton, was nominated to the D.C. Circuit by former President George W. Bush. Kavanaugh, who had worked for Bush as well, faced nearly three years of opposition from Democrats but eventually was confirmed on May 26, 2006, by a vote of 57-36.”

O’Keefe’s Latest Exposé Blows Lid Off Deep State at IRS

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‘You should give increased scrutiny to those groups because a lot of them are just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers or whatever…’

Thomas Sheehy
Thomas Sheehy/IMAGE: Project Veritas via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The fourth in a series of ‘Deep State’ exposés from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas on Tuesday brought the most shocking look to date at the callous disregard for law and country among radical socialists who have infiltrated the federal bureaucracy.

While previous undercover videos showed questionable activism at the State Department, Justice Department, Health and Human Services, and the Government Accountability Office, the fourth one, profiling two IRS employees, goes beyond partisan mischief-making into the realm of seditious malfeasance.

Thomas Sheehy, an IRS tax examiner and member of the Austin Democratic Socialists of America, candidly confesses that, if given the opportunity, he would work to actively undermine the United States’ most sacred and fundamental of principles.

“Unfortunately, I am not allowed by the bylaws of my union to go against the constitution,” he says, before admitting that he would if he could.

It is particularly shocking in light of the 2013 Lois Lerner controversy—generally considered one of the top 5 scandals of the Obama administration—in which the agency’s director overseeing tax-exempt organizations pleaded the Fifth to avoid criminal prosecution.

The wrist-slapping rebuke that Lerner got for targeting conservative nonprofits with additional scrutiny during the 2012 election seems to have resulted in little to no reform—or even so much as contrition among the IRS pencil-pushers moonlighting as domestic terrorists.

“The IRS indeed has fought for privacy for itself while simultaneously demanding for more disclosure from citizens,” O’Keefe said, pointing out the agency’s maneuvering to seal testimony from Lerner and her conspirators in order to protect them from public scrutiny.

For his part, Sheehy speaks admiringly of a former IRS commissioner who attempted to delete tens of thousands of emails related to the scandal.

“John Koskinen. He got a lot of flak for giving increased scrutiny to these Tea Party groups; conservatives got really mad at him,” Sheehy tells the undercover interviewer. “He was so cool, though, because he deleted all the emails, so they could not hold any evidence against him.”

Sheehy then unleashes a profanity-laden screed showing just how little he regards the rule of law that he is entrusted by the public both to follow and enforce.

“Yeah, I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime for doing that,” he says. “ … You should give increased scrutiny to those groups because a lot of them are just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers or whatever.”

Project Veritas is able to do in its undercover interview what few were able to do on the public record, which is to acknowledge that Lerner’s office knowingly engaged in unseemly—and illegal—activity while specifically targeting conservative groups.

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IRS Attorney Jerry Semasek/IMAGE: Project Veritas via Youtube

Jerry Semasek, an IRS attorney, says he worked with people in the Tax Exempt Government Entities division during the 2013 scandal.

Although more prudent than Sheehy in his comments–insisting that Congressional Republicans blew the scandal out of proportion and that Lerner was unfairly singled out as its mastermind–Semasek repeatedly confesses to the undercover interviewer that “mistakes were made.”

“Lois Lerner and maybe some of her employees were more liberal leaning or Democrats,” he says, “so I don’t know if they disallowed them, but they required them to produce more documentation to try to prove that they weren’t partisan.”

O’Keefe says that the series of investigations, which began last week, so far has resulted in the removal of two federal employees, the GAO’s Natarajan Subramanian and the Justice Department’s Allison Hrabar.

On a special page devoted to the official responses to its report, it also offers comments from the other agencies featured, which assure that they are investigating the criminal and ethical violations.

O’Keefe promises that even more reports are forthcoming: “Stay tuned to see which government agency we unmask next.”

Frighteningly, Sheehy, in his own candid words, reveals that Project Veritas may only be scratching the surface in the network of corruption that leftist extremists have managed to hack into. He mentions one such comrade of his, named Chris, who helps manage the Democratic Socialists of America’s tech stuff and social media, and also helps write its bylaws:

“He actually is on the national social media working group. So, he helps run the national Twitter account,” Sheehy says.

Gillibrand’s Blatant ‘Doublethink’ on Kavanaugh Accusal Would Make Big Brother Blush

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‘Forcing her into a sham hearing is silencing her…’

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Kirsten Gillibrand/IMAGE: CNN via YouTube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) It is fitting that Kavanaugh sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford was a member of Holton-Arms School’s Class of 1984.

Ford’s eleventh-hour accusations against the Supreme Court nominee have taken government officials on the Left to new levels in their effort to turn America into the dystopian vision of Oceania outlined in George Orwell’s novel 1984.

Replete with descriptions of a surveillance society controlled by the omnipresent Big Brother where people are able to commit thoughtcrimes, the book coins the term doublethink to refer to ideas that mean the opposite of what they express, such as its warmongering Ministry of Peace.

And though hypocrisy has not been in short supply during the Left’s brazen, monthslong effort to block Kavanaugh’s confirmation, New York Sen. Kristen Gillibrand may just have given us one of our greatest examples of doublethink to date–or at least since the Bill Clinton presidency.

Not to be outdone by her unhinged, misandronist colleague Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono, who declared on Wednesday that all men should “just shut up and step up” by accepting responsibility for any alleged sexual assault, Gillibrand tweeted on Thursday that forcing Ford to testify before Congress about her allegations would be “silencing her.”

Gillibrand deserves some credit for her consistency in demanding accountability for sexual abusers, having also publicly criticized Al Franken and Bill Clinton for their #MeToo sins–and having promptly donated her campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein to a women’s charity while others in her party hedged. However, she sometimes has been all to willing to let the political trade winds shift her moral compass. In February, for example, she characterized rape enabler and victim-basher Hillary Clinton as her “greatest role model in politics.”

While senators like Gillibrand and Hirono have, on one hand, complained about the reluctance of many to believe Ford’s sincerity in her vague recollection of a 36-year-old alleged high school assault, Democrats nonetheless have unabashedly used the accusations for their own political devices, engaging in political theater and even fundraising events that capitalize on the scandal while attempting to hinder a factual inquiry into it.

Holder Caps Off Foot-in-Mouth Week by ‘Mansplainin’ AG Job to Loretta Lynch

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‘That would not have happened if I was attorney general of the United States…’

Holder blames Republican gerrymandering for unfair districts
Eric Holder/IMAGE: The Daily Show

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) For someone who last held office three years ago, former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder continues to make headlines in the worst of ways.

Holder (who acknowledges having some presidential aspirations that may help account for the recent headline gobbling) began the week with inflammatory remarks at Sunday’s Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, where he declared, “The age of bullies and bigots is not fully behind us” while taking divisive potshots at President Donald Trump and his supporters.

On Monday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation released a shocking report, revealing the previously unknown depths to which Holder’s Justice Department and Obama’s White House stooped while attempting to spy on and suppress members of the media–including Holder’s having personally signed off on FISA warrants under false pretenses to secretly eavesdrop on journalists.

While those offenses may mean nothing to the liberal base he panders too, however, on Friday, Holder committed one of the Left’s cardinal offenses by daring to ‘mansplain’ to his successor, Loretta Lynch, where she went wrong in failing to rein in disgraced former FBI Director James Comey.

“That would not have happened if I was attorney general of the United States,” Holder said on BuzzFeed News’ AM To DM. “I would have told Jim Comey, ‘You can go up there as the FBI director and try to hold this press conference, but you will leave that podium as the ex-FBI director.”

This may, in fact, be one of the few areas where Holder and Trump find common ground, with Trump having lamented earlier in the week that he wished he had fired Comey earlier than he did.

Comey drew the ire of both sides of the aisle for his perceived election interference, first in prematurely concluding the e-mail investigation into Hillary Clinton, and later re-opening it after additional classified emails were found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, a convicted sexual predator and then-husband to Clinton’s personal assistant.

Among the many details in an Inspector General’s report excoriating the former director, top FBI officials and the Justice Department over recurrent instances of bias, compromised ethics and poor judgment was that Comey had left Lynch out of the loop when making his initial decree about ending the Clinton investigation in July 2016.

However, some have speculated that Lynch–and Obama–exerted more than a little influence on the decision to clear Hillary Clinton, despite Comey’s having publicly stated that an earlier tarmac meeting between his DOJ boss and former President Bill Clinton had compromised her credibility.

Holder told Buzzfeed that he found Comey’s remarks “hard to watch” and that “I wish I’d been there maybe an hour before the press conference had started.”

Ironically, for all his second-guessing of Lynch’s decisions, Holder–the only attorney general ever to be held in contempt of Congress–seemed a bit sensitive of criticism about his own record.

When asked about the decision not to prosecute banks in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, which had some on the Left feeling betrayed, he said, “that pisses me off.”

Holder then complained to the journalist that his job was way harder than theirs was.

“It’s an easy thing to criticize from the sidelines, it’s an easy thing to write an article about what you should have done,” he said. “It’s a whole different thing to get in front of a jury of 12 people with a standard of beyond a reasonable doubt and hold people accountable in that way.”

Could Kavanaugh Accusation Be a Case of Mistaken Identity?

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‘There is zero chance that I would confuse them…’

Pressed on Trump Loyalty, Kavanaugh Asserts His Independence
Brett Kavanaugh/IMAGE: C-SPAN via YouTube

In the race to destroy Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, members of the Left and the liberal press have moved so far beyond the question of culpability that it is now a foregone conclusion.

Several Democrats in Congress have issued statements saying they believe the accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, even though no investigation has been launched and she has hedged on her planned testimony next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono went so far on Wednesday as to blame all men, telling them it was time to “just shut up and step up.”

However, not all Kavanaugh supporters are acquiescing to Hirono’s demands.

In a series of somewhat cryptic tweets, Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, suggested on Tuesday that Ford may have made a mistake.

Whelan then made a bold prediction about how the narrative will unfold in the days leading up to Kavanaugh’s presumptive confirmation vote, scheduled for next week:

Whelan, a former clerk of Justice Antonin Scalia, used public records available from Zillow to essentially triangulate the possible location of a house near Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, that fit the description based on her account of the alleged sexual assault.

Kavanaugh has unequivocally denied having been at the party in question, details of which remain vague.

Moreover, at least two friends and classmates of Kavanaugh’s who were implicated in Ford’s account as witnesses and corroborators–Mark Judge and Patrick J. Smyth–have also disputed her story.

On Thursday, Whelan presented his evidence, that a house in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where the party most likely occurred was that of another classmate at Georgetown Prep, a friend and teammate of Kavanaugh’s who bore a passing resemblance to him.

Whelan named the person and posted side-by-side pictures of Kavanaugh and the doppelganger, implying that it could have been a different person.

Ford responded by telling The Washington Post, “There is zero chance that I would confuse them.”

Perhaps for legal reasons, Whelan later decided to remove the tweet thread and issued an apology for publicly identifying the other student whom he had suggested may have committed the assault.

Reactions tended to break down by party lines. Twitchy, which compiled all of the tweets from Whelan, showed some pundits intrigued by the research, which–though it may not be a “smoking gun”–would at least introduce reasonable doubt into the account, barring any “blue dress” level evidence.

Liberal “media” and social-media users, meanwhile, predictably mocked it as conspiratorial.

According to the website Law & Crime, several conservative figures, including National Review editor Rich Lowry and former George W. Bush speechwriter Bill McGurn, have vouched for Whelan’s track record as a meticulous and careful researcher.

Unfortunately for Kavanaugh, evidence and “reasonable doubt” may, ironically, be moot considerations in the courtroom of public opinion, upon which his confirmation hinges.

A poll promoted by USA Today claimed that the judge, who faced an unprecedented level of Soros-funded political attacks even prior to Ford’s accusations, also currently faces “unprecedented opposition,” with 40 percent opposed to his nomination and 31 percent in favor.

The validity of the poll, given USA Today‘s documented practice of oversampling to favor Democrats, is naturally a question to consider.

But either way, with the Senate deadlocked and no Democrats likely to defect for reasons like voting their conscience, Kavanaugh must maintain good optics–as well as offer truthful and exculpatory testimony–when he takes the stand next week.