Gardner gets anonymous letter about Kavanaugh accusation
The parent of a woman who says she witnessed sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in Washington, D.C., in 1998 sent a detailed — but anonymous — letter about the incident to Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner.
“Her friend was dating him, and they left the bar under the influence of alco hol. They were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually,” the letter reads.
“There were at least four witnesses, including my daughter.”
Kavanaugh denied the latest allegation, as he has with other accusations of sexual misconduct, including another by a woman who lives in Boulder.
The letter arrived at Gardner’s Denver office Saturday without any contact information, names or return address.
“Upon receiving the anonymous letter, we immediately notified the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is handling the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh. The letter was shared with both Republican staff and Democrat staff,” Gardner’s office said in a statement Wednesday night.
The letter alleged that this incident occurred in 1998 while Kavanaugh worked for independent counsel Kenneth Starr on the report about thenPresident Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The letter writer claims that his or her daughter, who was living in Boulder at the time, occasionally would socialize with Kavanaugh in Washington, D.C., and that the incident happened outside of a bar there.
“Her friend, still traumatized, called my daughter yesterday, September 21, 2018, wondering what to do about it,” according to the transcript.
“They decided to remain anonymous.”
Staffers for the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Kavanaugh whether there was any truth to the allega tion on a phone call Tuesday, and Kavanaugh flatly denied it.
“No, and we’re dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend. It’s ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone,” Kavanaugh told staffers on the call. “And no, I’ve never done anything like that.”