My Thoughts on Brett Kavanaugh’s FOX Interview
Tomorrow we will see the testimony of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford. Before that fury, I wanted to share my thoughts on Kavanaugh’s FOX interview.
Do I believe Brett Kavanaugh? I do not. For many reasons.
When the interview begins, the reporter tells us that Ford doesn’t remember the location or the exact date of what happened, but ironically, as Kavanaugh talks a few minutes later, he DOES. (If this is inaccurately reported by FOX, then my opinion is subject to change).
What on earth? He says this didn’t happen, he wasn’t with Ford, he didn’t have an encounter with her but HE KNOWS where this non-event happened??
Really? How does that happen?
Kavanaugh says, “This is an allegation about a party in the summer of 1982 at house near Connecticut Avenue and East-West Highway with five people present. I was never at such party. The other people who were alleged to be present said they do not remember any such party.”
Hmmm…no one was at any such party, but I know where it was! What?
Did Ford every specify this house? Who came up with this?
If it was Kavanaugh, it doesn’t bode well for him on ANY level. It’s a huge slip in that case. I’m open to receiving more information if FOX reported this incorrectly.
If I never had anything to do with Ford, and I never was at any such party, I would not talk about a party that never happened. But Kavanaugh does.
Kavanaugh goes on to say that he always treated women with dignity and respect. Yet we have Kavanaugh’s own college roommate in Yale saying what Deborah Ramirez accuses him is not out of line with the Brett Kavanugh he knew. That’s powerful.
According to the FOX reporter herself, this roommate said Kavanaugh was known to drink a lot in high school and college. This directly supports Ford’s account and contradict’s Kavanaugh’s church-boy self-portrait.
If you notice Kavanaugh cannot categorically DENY he didn’t know Ford, either. He can’t say it. He says he “may have met her. We may have traveled in the same circles.” This raises eyebrows.
Kavanaugh also brings up Ford’s lifelong friend to say that she didn’t remember the incident, which is true, but he didn’t talk about the fact that this friend of Ford BELIEVES her account as truthful!
Kavanaugh said he was not at the party “described”. That word choice stands out to me. Is that what you would say or think if you were honest? If you were honest, wouldn’t you say something to the effect of I was never at a party with Ms. Ford where any contact between us occurred. Period. That’s clear and precise.
I find Kavanaugh’s answers very selective and evasive many times over. His behavior to me is slippery.
Add in there is not one, but multiple accusers now. The odds of him being honest gets more and more remote as more people have made claims that don’t know each other.
Outside of not believing Kavanaugh, it comes down to this for me: We are looking as a country to interview and put a man into one of the most important seats in our judiciary for decades to come. With any job interview, for high positions, we want the best candidate possible. We want a man or woman of high integrity, of supreme ethical value, a person who shows respect and dignity for all people, who has the untarnished character to serve our nation on one of the highest and most influential jobs in our legal system. We want someone we can trust.
Is Kavanaugh that person? With all the controversy that surrounds him, regardless of whether you believe him or not, with all the people coming forward and saying things in contradiction to what Kavanaugh says, I say the answer is clearly no regardless of your political beliefs.
Many politicians are spinning this job interview into claims its an unfair persecution of Kavanugh. Don’t be fooled — that makes you want to think Kavanugh is being treated unfair. He is not. He is interviewing for a job and he owes all of us answers. Interviews for jobs require tough questions about character.
I think most people who would have to hire a person for a position of trust and authority to do the right thing for the good of a country would shy away from someone of such controversy, like Kavanaugh. He is way too controversial, and frankly not believable on any level.
Though when Kavanaugh claims he is a virgin, I believe him there. That actually fits with his character. The guy who has to brag and act like he has all these conquests (see his yearbook entries) usually doesn’t–that’s what drives him to overcompensate.