We know that… everyone knew it was a weekend limited review and micro-managed by Trump. It was so he could say he “did it”. Everything Trump does is for show and to hide what he is really doing.
Travelerdude on
And Kavanaugh owes Trump. 🤔
RealGianath on
That should disqualify him immediately, and invalidate any SCOTUS cases his vote made a difference on deciding. You shouldn’t be able to cheat and lie your way into a lifetime position of such importance, and then suddenly be safe and immune from ever being removed because you are already there. The Supreme Court should not be ruled by squatters rights.
Remarkable_Mud_8227 on
Yes we saw it happen in real time and no one did anything about it.
AmrokMC on
Yup, hundreds of thousand in debt wiped out without explanation, 10,000$ in baseball tickets, etc. None of it researched. The sexual assault/rape accusation was turned into a joke. Anyone who thinks Trump’s appointed judges are good judges is delusional. Even Gorsuch has actions that are ethically worrisome and has been accused of commiting plagerism in his writings, and he’s undoubtedly the best of the three Trump appointed.
Trump’s damage to this country will last generations. Makes sense. Why should Trump only ruin his own family when he can ruin everyone else’s too.
ElPlywood on
I’m still surprised / fuckn annoyed that at the time nobody in the media said “hey send your tips here, we’ll look into them”
DryStatistician7055 on
The FBI should be ashamed of itself.
AmbivalentFanatic on
Then he should be re-investigated. Now.
CharlesB43 on
I see everyone here saying “yeah we know” but two thoughts about articles like this:
1. Refresher course. trump has done a lot of crimes and disgusting acts along the route of his time in politics. it’s important to keep things fresh
2 . these articles are not really for us. they’re mostly for the every day folks who didn’t follow this stuff in and out. the people who saw the process of kavanaugh getting “grilled”, going through controversies and STILL made his way to the supreme court will get almost nothing from these articles.
I watched party boy brett being soft balled questions by the right with horror while he reminisced about his drinking stories. the whole time I thought This is the guy who’s about to be a justice?! holy shit…. the guy had to fight off allegations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford (Looked up her name. didn’t feel right just saying “someone” or “a girl”) in high school. No wonder trump likes the guy.
Bhadbaubbie on
I feel like we knew this at the the time, seeing as the investigation took about an hour and then he was being confirmed
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-brett-kavanaugh-investigation-fbi?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other) reduced by 82%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> The Trump administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from facing a full FBI investigation in the wake of serious allegations that he sexually assaulted two women – once in high school and once in college – during his controversial 2018 Senate confirmation to become a supreme court justice, according to a new report.
> An investigation led by the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse also found that both the Trump White House and the FBI "Misled the public and the Senate" about the scope of the investigation it did conduct into the sexual assault allegations by falsely claiming that the FBI had conducted its investigation thoroughly and "By the book".
> In reality, the Whitehouse report claims the FBI's limited supplemental background investigation involved only a "Handful" of interviews of relevant witnesses, and ignored other potential sources, including Kavanaugh himself, Ford, or others who had offered to give the FBI corroborating or otherwise relevant information.
Always quid pro quo… we knew it then and so did everyone else. Our cowardly government and DOJ continue the cover up and the fake shock at tRump’s never ending corruption!
McKayLau on
It shows, doesn’t it?
-misanthroptimist on
Surprising no one at all. Kavanaugh is an anti-Constitutional piece of shit, both personally and professionally.
nylonsbrunette on
Woah woah woah
You mean to tell me the investigation that wasn’t allowed to interview anyone and only was allowed a single printed copy for 100 senators to read over the span of a few hours in total wasn’t on the up and up?!?
Gold_Gap5669 on
This just proves that we had a dictatorship under trump
cornmanjammer on
Pepperidge farm somethings
jeoyce on
How can the guy who taught us all what buttchugging was NOT be confirmed to the Supreme Court?
b0yheaven on
You spelled “Supreme Court justice illegitimately confirmed” wrong
Olfahrtur on
Do it over and do it right. Impeach the asshole.
Julyof84 on
Anyone surprised that a man convicted of sexual assault and linked to Epstein would protect a frat boy rapist …?
IdahoMTman222 on
Gonna be a hell of a legacy of John Roberts corrupt SCOTUS.
24carrickgold on
This needs to be screamed from the mountaintops
StageGuy66 on
Grifters gotta grift…
ciopobbi on
This is a small sample of what a second Chubby Cheeto administration would look like.
SAyyOuremySIN on
Trump deserves the absolute worst that could happen to a human being. And I’m not being figurative.
lavardera on
what happened to Kavanaugh’s high school buddy who was there for his rape attempt? Nobody has tracked that guy down?
Terrible_Macaroon890 on
Are we supposed to be shocked? It was clear as day during the time.
froyolobro on
The swamp was really drained, huh
justennn on
No shit.
AnticPosition on
We know… We lived through it…
Endomusia on
Well… duh
franky_emm on
We all knew this at the time. It was wrong then, nothing happened about it, because nothing ever happens. And nothing will happen still.
bigjtdjr on
you mean he weaponized the justice dept..?? no way
Happy-go-lucky-37 on
So… Brett will get impeached, right?
…RIGHT?
More like “extreme right”.
FunctionBuilt on
In otherwords, no fucking shit. Why is this just coming out now?
SuperChimpMan on
Then it’s even more of a joke of an institution than we thought. Immediate and drastic action is required to save our democracy. Immediately expand the court and impeach these criminals who evaded accountability.
whodey84 on
Hey a lot of people who cry during their interview get hired….
kathryn2a on
Trump and his Ol’ boy’s code of conduct must include a statement, “sexual predators welcome”.
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That figures
We know that… everyone knew it was a weekend limited review and micro-managed by Trump. It was so he could say he “did it”. Everything Trump does is for show and to hide what he is really doing.
And Kavanaugh owes Trump. 🤔
That should disqualify him immediately, and invalidate any SCOTUS cases his vote made a difference on deciding. You shouldn’t be able to cheat and lie your way into a lifetime position of such importance, and then suddenly be safe and immune from ever being removed because you are already there. The Supreme Court should not be ruled by squatters rights.
Yes we saw it happen in real time and no one did anything about it.
Yup, hundreds of thousand in debt wiped out without explanation, 10,000$ in baseball tickets, etc. None of it researched. The sexual assault/rape accusation was turned into a joke. Anyone who thinks Trump’s appointed judges are good judges is delusional. Even Gorsuch has actions that are ethically worrisome and has been accused of commiting plagerism in his writings, and he’s undoubtedly the best of the three Trump appointed.
Trump’s damage to this country will last generations. Makes sense. Why should Trump only ruin his own family when he can ruin everyone else’s too.
I’m still surprised / fuckn annoyed that at the time nobody in the media said “hey send your tips here, we’ll look into them”
The FBI should be ashamed of itself.
Then he should be re-investigated. Now.
I see everyone here saying “yeah we know” but two thoughts about articles like this:
1. Refresher course. trump has done a lot of crimes and disgusting acts along the route of his time in politics. it’s important to keep things fresh
2 . these articles are not really for us. they’re mostly for the every day folks who didn’t follow this stuff in and out. the people who saw the process of kavanaugh getting “grilled”, going through controversies and STILL made his way to the supreme court will get almost nothing from these articles.
I watched party boy brett being soft balled questions by the right with horror while he reminisced about his drinking stories. the whole time I thought This is the guy who’s about to be a justice?! holy shit…. the guy had to fight off allegations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford (Looked up her name. didn’t feel right just saying “someone” or “a girl”) in high school. No wonder trump likes the guy.
I feel like we knew this at the the time, seeing as the investigation took about an hour and then he was being confirmed
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-brett-kavanaugh-investigation-fbi?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other) reduced by 82%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> The Trump administration protected Brett Kavanaugh from facing a full FBI investigation in the wake of serious allegations that he sexually assaulted two women – once in high school and once in college – during his controversial 2018 Senate confirmation to become a supreme court justice, according to a new report.
> An investigation led by the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse also found that both the Trump White House and the FBI "Misled the public and the Senate" about the scope of the investigation it did conduct into the sexual assault allegations by falsely claiming that the FBI had conducted its investigation thoroughly and "By the book".
> In reality, the Whitehouse report claims the FBI's limited supplemental background investigation involved only a "Handful" of interviews of relevant witnesses, and ignored other potential sources, including Kavanaugh himself, Ford, or others who had offered to give the FBI corroborating or otherwise relevant information.
*****
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Always quid pro quo… we knew it then and so did everyone else. Our cowardly government and DOJ continue the cover up and the fake shock at tRump’s never ending corruption!
It shows, doesn’t it?
Surprising no one at all. Kavanaugh is an anti-Constitutional piece of shit, both personally and professionally.
Woah woah woah
You mean to tell me the investigation that wasn’t allowed to interview anyone and only was allowed a single printed copy for 100 senators to read over the span of a few hours in total wasn’t on the up and up?!?
This just proves that we had a dictatorship under trump
Pepperidge farm somethings
How can the guy who taught us all what buttchugging was NOT be confirmed to the Supreme Court?
You spelled “Supreme Court justice illegitimately confirmed” wrong
Do it over and do it right. Impeach the asshole.
Anyone surprised that a man convicted of sexual assault and linked to Epstein would protect a frat boy rapist …?
Gonna be a hell of a legacy of John Roberts corrupt SCOTUS.
This needs to be screamed from the mountaintops
Grifters gotta grift…
This is a small sample of what a second Chubby Cheeto administration would look like.
Trump deserves the absolute worst that could happen to a human being. And I’m not being figurative.
what happened to Kavanaugh’s high school buddy who was there for his rape attempt? Nobody has tracked that guy down?
Are we supposed to be shocked? It was clear as day during the time.
The swamp was really drained, huh
No shit.
We know… We lived through it…
Well… duh
We all knew this at the time. It was wrong then, nothing happened about it, because nothing ever happens. And nothing will happen still.
you mean he weaponized the justice dept..?? no way
So… Brett will get impeached, right?
…RIGHT?
More like “extreme right”.
In otherwords, no fucking shit. Why is this just coming out now?
Then it’s even more of a joke of an institution than we thought. Immediate and drastic action is required to save our democracy. Immediately expand the court and impeach these criminals who evaded accountability.
Hey a lot of people who cry during their interview get hired….
Trump and his Ol’ boy’s code of conduct must include a statement, “sexual predators welcome”.