Feinstein’s Inexcusable Handling of the Kavanaugh Accusation
By Jonah Goldberg
September 19, 2018 6:30 AM
One thing can be known for sure: Dianne Feinstein has behaved outrageously.
There are very few things I’m sure of in the latest, and worst, chapter in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation saga.
It’s like a “Choose Your Own Adventure†book in which every chapter ends with a thud at the bottom of an old well or the clanking shut of a dungeon door.
What if Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth that, 36 years ago, a drunken 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh pushed her down on a bed and covered her mouth in an attempt to sexually assault her?
For starters, she’ll never get justice. This will never see a court of law. There’s no way to prove it happened, not least because she cannot provide a time or place where the event allegedly occurred. The most Ford might get is vengeance by thwarting Kavanaugh’s dream of getting on the Supreme Court and destroying his reputation.
But what if her claim is only subjectively true? What if she believed that Kavanaugh intended her terrible harm, but he had no such intent, simply thinking he was being funny, flirtatious, manly, or some other dumb idea drunk 17-year-old jocks sometimes have?
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