Who Was behind the Flake Set-Up?
By John Fund
September 30, 2018 8:00 PM
ACORN’s tactics live on in the senator’s elevator confrontation with activists from a Soros-backed group.
On Friday morning, two women raced past reporters and security officers and blocked a senators-only elevator in the U.S. Capitol. They cornered Arizona senator Jeff Flake, who had just announced he was going to vote yes on moving Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the Senate floor for a full debate. The women wouldn’t let Flake leave until they had yelled at him, face to face, for several minutes. Anyone who thinks the two left-wing activists acted without a well-thought-out plan hasn’t read The Intimidation Game by Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal.
A CNN camera broadcast the event live, and from there it went viral. “Thank you,†Flake said, as he was finally allowed to exit after one of the women revealed, apparently for the first time, that she’d been sexually abused:
I was sexually assaulted, and nobody believed me. I didn’t tell anyone, and you’re telling all women that they don’t matter. . . . That’s what you’re telling all of these women. That’s what you’re telling me right now. Look at me when I’m talking to you! You are telling me that my assault doesn’t matter. . . . Don’t look away from me. Look at me.more
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