A damning new report indicates that Deborah Ramirez’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were never fully investigated, even though she had potential witnesses who were willing to speak
Deborah Ramirez Photo: Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock Mere days before the Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hear Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual-assault allegation against then–Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh last year, a woman named Deborah Ramirez came forward with her own accusation against Kavanaugh, claiming that he thrust his penis in her face at a dorm party when they were both students at Yale.
Below, here’s everything we’ve learned about Deborah Ramirez and her allegation against Kavanaugh, as well as the rushed FBI investigation into them. “I remember a penis being in front of my face,” she said. “I knew that’s not what I wanted, even in that state of mind.” She recalled remarking, “That’s not a real penis,” and the other students laughing at her confusion and taunting her, one encouraging her to “kiss it.” She said that she pushed the person away, touching it in the process.
The GOP launched a concerted effort to discredit Ramirez’s claims. In the same New Yorker report, Kavanaugh denied the accusation, calling it a “smear, plain and simple.” “She thinks maybe it could have been him, maybe not,” he said. “She admits that she was drunk. She admits that there are time lapses.”
Recent reporting calls into question how thorough the FBI’s investigation was. In October 2018, Kavanaugh was confirmed to the court after the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded that there was “no corroboration of the allegations” made by Ford and Ramirez. But after a ten-month investigation, New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly were able to find several people who could corroborate Ramirez’s account.
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