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No Spin News Summary – October 2, 2018
NYT: Kavanaugh Was Questioned by Police After Bar Fight in 1985
In a New York Times article, written by Emily Bazelon and Ben Protess, on October 1, said that as an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report.
The incident, which occurred in September 1985 during Kavanaugh’s junior year, resulted in Kavanaugh and four other men being questioned by the New Haven Police Department. The report said that the victim, Dom Cozzolino, “was bleeding from the right ear” and was treated at a hospital. A detective was notified of the incident at 1:20 a.m.
Kavanaugh was not arrested, but the police report stated that a 21-year-old man accused Kavanaugh of throwing ice on him “for some unknown reason.” A witness to the fight said that Chris Dudley, a Yale basketball player who is friends with Kavanaugh, then threw a glass that hit the man in the ear, according to the police report, which was obtained by The New York Times.
The report referred to the altercation, which occurred at a bar called Demery’s, as “an assault.” It did not say whether anyone was arrested, and there is no indication that charges were filed.
The outlines of the incident were first referred to in a statement issued on Sunday by Chad Ludington, one of Judge Kavanaugh’s college classmates and a member of the Yale basketball team. “On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face,” Ludington said in the statement. Ludington, a professor at North Carolina State University, said he came forward because he believed Judge Kavanaugh had mischaracterized the extent of his drinking at Yale. Chad Ludington said that he had been in touch with the F.B.I. He said that the altercation happened after a UB40 concert on Sept. 25, 1985, when he and a group of people went to Demery’s and were drinking pints.
White House response to New York Times Story
Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, called out The New York Times late Monday over its report on a 1985 bar fight that allegedly involved Brett Kavanaugh
“As a @YaleLawSch grad & lecturer, I strongly disassociate myself from tonight’s praise of Brett Kavanaugh,” Emily Bazelon, a Times reporter, tweeted at the time. “With respect, he’s a 5th vote for a hard-right turn on voting rights and so much more that will harm the democratic process & prevent a more equal society.”
Quinnipiac Poll: Plurality of Americans Don’t Want Kavanaugh Confirmed
This poll was taken from September 27 – 30. Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,111 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3.7 percentage points.
- Political Identity of Respondents:
- Republican: 28%
- Democrat: 31%
- Independent: 34%
- Other/DK/NA: 7%
Quick Overview:
Women oppose confirmation 55% to 37%, while men support the confirmation 49% to 40%. 48% of American voters say the U.S. Senate should not confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Question: As you may know, President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Do you think the U.S. Senate should confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, or not?
Total Republican Democrat Men Women
Yes/Confirm: 42% 84% 8% 49% 37%
No: 48% 9% 88% 40% 55%
Don’t know: 9% 8% 5% 11% 8%
Question: As you may know, President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Do you think the U.S. Senate should confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, or not?
Oct.1, 2018 Sept. 10, 2018 Aug. 15, 2018 July 25, 2018
Yes/ Confirm: 42% 41% 44% 40%
No: 48% 42% 39% 41%
DK/NA: 9% 17% 17% 18%
Question: In general, do you approve or disapprove of the way the Senate Republicans are handling the accusations of sexual misconduct against Judge Kavanaugh?
Total Republican Democrat
Approve: 33% 62% 9%
Disapprove: 56% 25% 82%
Don’t know: 10% 13% 8%
Trump mocks 'Da Nang Blumenthal,' top Dems in fiery Tennessee Rally
At a rally Monday night in Johnson City, Tennessee, President Trump derided Democrats as shameless hypocrites for questioning the integrity of his embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. This included targeting Senator Blumenthal.
Senator Blumenthal’s comment on Brett Kavanaugh and President Trump:
Senator Blumenthal had said last week that President Trump's initial reluctance to order the now-ongoing supplemental background probe of Brett Kavanaugh was “tantamount to a cover-up.”
“The core of why we are here today really is credibility,” the Senator said in his opening remarks. He then quizzed Kavanaugh during Thursday's hearing on everything from the high court nominee's high school yearbook entries to his drinking habits.
President Trump’s comments on Senator Blumenthal:
“Look at Blumenthal. Lied about Vietnam for 15 years, and he said he was a war hero,” Trump said. “He said he was Da Nang Richard.”
“He says we need honesty and we need integrity. This guy lied. When he was the attorney general of Connecticut, he lied. I do not mean a little bit.”
"For 15 years as the attorney general of Connecticut, he went around telling war stories," Trump told the crowd. "'People dying left and right -- but my platoon marched forward!' He was never in Vietnam. It was a lie. And then he's up there saying, 'We want the truth from Judge Kavanaugh.' And you're getting the truth from Judge Kavanaugh."
President Trump also tweeted about Blumenthal on Saturday, Sept, 29th: “Senator Richard Blumenthal must talk about his fraudulent service in Vietnam, where for 12 years he told the people of Connecticut, as their Attorney General, that he was a great Marine War Hero. Talked about his many battles of near death, but was never in Vietnam. Total Phony!”
Trump and Hillary Clinton Approval
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's favorability with U.S. adults is unchanged from last November, remaining at a record low 36%. Clinton's prior low favorable rating was 38% in late August/early September 2016 during the presidential campaign. She also registered a 38% favorable rating (with a 40% unfavorable rating) in April 1992, when she was much less well-known.
Americans who view Hillary Clinton…
- Favorably: 36%
- Unfavorably: 60%
- No opinion: 4%
Trump's approval rating holds steady at 46 percent: poll
President Trump’s approval rating is steady at 46 percent five weeks before the midterm elections, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.
Americans on Donald Trump …
- 46 percent approve of Trump’s job performance
- 54 percent disapprove of Trump’s job performance
Georgetown professor says white GOP senators ‘deserve miserable deaths’ after Kavanaugh hearing
Dr. Carol Christine Fair, an associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, who previously tweeted profanity-laced comments about Republicans now says “white GOP senators in Thursday’s Kavanaugh hearing deserve miserable deaths.”
Professor Fair went on to say in her Saturday message that the living should “castrate their corpses and feed them to swine.”
“Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement,” she wrote. “All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.”
Student’s reaction, “As a student applying to this school, I wouldn’t have dared use that kind of language on a social media platform, especially surrounding a sensitive and controversial issue. Georgetown wouldn’t have admitted me if they had seen stuff like that,” a current Georgetown student who wished to remain anonymous.
“I don’t think people that Georgetown actually employs should be held to a significantly lower standard. And clearly, any of her students that see this rant are going to feel threatened if they have opinions that differ from hers.” Another anonymous student stated.
In addition to her frequent Twitter rants, Carol Christine Fair also runs a blog called ‘ShitMenSay’. She has published home addresses, phone numbers and places of employment of people who contacted her. Carol Christine Fair has also bragged about emailing the spouses and employers of those who contact her.
Catholic U. dean suspended after comment that ‘degraded’ a woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault
Catholic University’s president suspended their dean of National Catholic School of Social Service, Will Rainford, whose comments on social media this week questioned allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Rainford posted Wednesday on his @NCSSSDean Twitter account: “Kavanaugh is 52 y/o. Since when do senior girls hang with freshmen boys? If it happened when Kavanaugh was a senior, Swetnick was an adult drinking with&by her admission, having sex with underage boys. In another universe, he would be victim & she the perp!”
Earlier in the month Rainford also tweeted: “Riddle me this. Why would the accuser of Kavanaugh take a polygraph, paid for by someone else and administered by private investigator in early August, if she wanted to remain anonymous and had no intention of reporting the alleged assault?”
“I will stand for due process, democracy, and justice even and especially when it makes me unpopular or vilified. The tactics of people who cannot press their view is to resort to ad hominem attacks that vilify. It’s not new to me!”
He has since deleted his Twitter and Facebook accounts
Word of the Day: Cacophony
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