Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Trump White House curtailed FBI's Kavanaugh probe, report finds

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-R.I.) report details the extreme grip former President Trump's administration kept over the probe into Kavanaugh's alleged sexual misconduct, including having FBI tips forwarded to the White House and preventing agents from pursuing corroborating evidence.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:56 PM | 29 COMMENTS | permalink

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"The FBI's supplemental background investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh was unreliable, not because of FBI ineptitude, but because the Trump White House tightly controlled the scope of the investigation," the report reads. Whitehouse's years-long investigation found that messages to the FBI tip line regarding Kavanaugh's background check were forwarded directly to the White House and never probed.

Putin's bitch polluted the Supreme Court.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-08 10:58 PM

Oh, this does not look like A Good Thing.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-08 11:18 PM

... Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ...

And, fwiw, I have sat through listening to numerous interviews with Sen Whitehouse on the various shows.

imo, he came across as someone who cares about the Judicial branch of government, first and foremost.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-08 11:22 PM

We knew that back when justice ----- McBeerCalendar was confirmed.

Hey sack of stupid Susan Collins, remember when you said Keggenaugh assured you Roe V Wade was settled law? Fk you too you old fossil.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-09 09:12 AM

Trump White House tightly controlled the scope of the investigation

conOLD doesn't give a ---- about the truth, only the agenda.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-09 09:13 AM

We have illegitimate supreme court justices that should be removed and their rulings reversed. Too bad there's no way to do the latter and the former requires moral decent republicans in Congress. What a clusterfcck.

#6 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-09 09:49 AM

The allegations were blatantly absurd and obvious lies.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-09 07:46 PM

Put some work into that trolling, please.

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-09 07:59 PM

I am dead serious, Yav.

Do you stand behind the Swernick chain rape thingy?

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-09 08:04 PM

"The Washington Post reported later that Judge's ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Rasor, informed the Judiciary Committee through her lawyer on Wednesday that she is willing to speak to the committee and the FBI about her recollection of what Judge allegedly told her an incident involving group sex.

The New Yorker, in a story about Ramirez's allegations, reported Sunday that "Rasor recalled that Judge had told her ashamedly of an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman.

Rasor said that Judge seemed to regard it as fully consensual. She said that Judge did not name others involved in the incident, and she has no knowledge that Kavanaugh participated in it."

www.cnbc.com

"You just grab 'em by the P....!"

Good thing he had Trump's support!

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-09 08:24 PM

Corky is beyond desperate.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-09 09:16 PM

TrumpyBelle has no argument, just a whiny voice.

And some salty tears... yum!

This is what happens when the Leader of your Party (see: Cult) is a criminal traitor.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-09 09:30 PM

WAY more corroboration of the second husband slapping a girlfriend and being a misogynist ----- at work than anything regarding Kavanaugh.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-10 01:17 AM

Immunity pro quo.

#14 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-10-10 02:14 AM

Kavanaugh's snotty reaction was enough to disqualify him from the SCOTUS.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-10-10 02:45 AM

Alexandrite thinks Kavanaugh should have responded with, "Thank you, sir, may I have another." After he assumed the position.

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-10 11:30 AM

He was sneering and yelling. wrong temperament for the job.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-10-10 11:32 AM

Kavanaugh should never have been confirmed. By any metric.

#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-10-10 11:43 AM

Kavanaugh lied his butt off. He lied about roe, lied to susan collins, and lied about what boofing meant.

i believe he did what he was accused of.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-10-10 11:47 AM

I doubt many folks have any trouble believing Trump tried to narrow the scope of the FBI's investigation.

As to what Kavanaugh really did 30 years ago? who knows....

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-10 11:56 AM

@#20 ... who knows.... ...

Not many because fmr Pres Trump prevented the FBI from, for example, following up on any of the valid tips that were received.

Which is likely why fmr Pres Trump quashed the investigation. Did he know what might have been turned up?



#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-10 01:10 PM

Blas Ford made up a story out of whole cloth.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-10 04:09 PM

Who paid off all of the drunken gang rapist's debts?

www.motherjones.com

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-10 04:11 PM

#22

Ah. more arguments free postage.

Same source.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-10 04:14 PM

BullBringer only cares about women when he needs to use them to bash the transgender community.

Otherwise he won't hesitate to call them lying whooores.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-10 04:17 PM

Blas Ford made up a story out of whole cloth.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-10 04:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You're such a fraudster it's not even funny. She told the truth moron. You're the reason why so many women don't report their rapes. Because they believe that they won't be believed

#26 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-10-10 05:04 PM

@#21 ... Not many because fmr Pres Trump prevented the FBI from, for example, following up on any of the valid tips that were received. ...

Not the first time the Trump admin apparently squelched an investigation...

How This Trump Prosecution Could Have Happened Years Ago (April 2024)
newrepublic.com

... The Justice Department was looking into the hush-money saga. Then, suddenly, it wasn't. Why?

They were furious that Bragg would prosecute Trump for a crime that the Department of Justice had already decided and announced that it wasn't going to pursue.

But why didn't Bill Barr's Department of Justice proceed after it had already put Michael Cohen in prison for a year for delivering the check to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet, at least until after the election, and then lying about it? Why didn't Barr's DOJ go after the guy who allegedly ordered the check written, the guy who'd had sex with Daniels, the guy whose run for the presidency was in the balance?

Why didn't the Department of Justice at least investigate (it has a policy against prosecuting a sitting president) the crime it put Cohen in prison for but was possibly directed by, paid for, and also committed by Donald Trump?

For one possible answer let's turn to Geoffrey Berman, the lifelong Republican and U.S. attorney appointed by Trump to run the prosecutor's office at the Southern District of New York. He wrote the book Holding the Line, published in September 2022, about his experiences.

In it, he came right out and accused Barr of killing the federal investigation into Trump's role of directing and covering up that conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. Had Barr not done that, Trump could have been prosecuted in January 2021, right after he left office. And Jim Jordan couldn't complain that Alvin Bragg was pushing a case the feds had decided wasn't worth it.

As The Washington Post noted when the book came out: ...


#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-10 06:06 PM

Blasey Ford should be on prosecuted for perjury.

#28 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-10-11 03:11 AM

#28
Wannabe beerbro

#29 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-11 04:26 AM

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