The New York Times is out with an excerpt from the new book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation.” In it, writers Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly reveal a new allegation against Brett Kavanaugh from a fellow classmate at Yale:
Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)
The writers say Kavanaugh declined to answer questions about Stier’s account. Though their report makes a connection to the similarities from an account that was talked about during Kavanaugh’s confirmation process:
(Deborah Ramirez) says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it. Some of the onlookers, who had been passing around a fake penis earlier in the evening, laughed.
That report was investigated, but Pogrebin and Kelly write:
Two F.B.I. agents interviewed Ms. Ramirez, telling her that they found her “credible.” But the Republican-controlled Senate had imposed strict limits on the investigation. “‘We have to wait to get authorization to do anything else,’” Bill Pittard, one of Ms. Ramirez’s lawyers, recalled the agents saying. “It was almost a little apologetic.”
Kavanaugh denied Ramirez’s claims.
Meanwhile, this new report, predictably, drew a response from Donald Trump.