Deborah Ramirez believes it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her at a college party when they were students at Yale University and is hurt by President Donald Trump’s attack on her, her lawyer said.
‘The comment by the president is pretty disgusting and pretty hurtful,’ her attorney John Clune said on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ Wednesday morning.
As to speculation she was unsure who assaulted her, he said: ‘She believes wholeheartedly that it was Judge Kavanaugh.’
John Clune, attorney for accuser Deborah Ramirez expressed his disapproval of how President Trump has mocked her account
Clune said Ramirez is confident it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her
Debbie Ramirez (above), a resident of Colorado, has come forward to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. She says the incident took place during their freshman year at Yale University
In a bombshell story in The New Yorker, Ramirez claims Kavanaugh, at a dorm party, took down his pants, thrust his penis in her face, and resulted in her touching it without her consent when she pushed him away.
Kavanaugh has denied her allegation and an earlier one from Christine Blasey Ford that he sexually assaulted her at a high school party in the 1980s.
Ford is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Ramirez is also willing to testify, said her attorney.
‘She would be willing to testify but we can’t even talk with the Senate Judiciary Committee about what that would look like and they certainly haven’t invited her, so at this point it’s a moot question,’ Clune said on NBC’s ‘Today Show.’
He said his client agreed with Ford that an FBI investigation first would be preferable.
‘It’s the only intelligent way to get to the truth of what happens,’ Clune noted.
Trump attacked Ramirez on Tuesday, saying she admitted to being drunk and he raged against a ‘con game’ Democrats are playing with the confirmation process for his Supreme Court nominee.
And when asked about the allegations revealed by a second accuser in an article in The New Yorker on Sunday, the president dismissed them.
‘I look at the second accuser, the second accuser has nothing,’ Trump said. ‘The second accuser doesn’t even know – maybe it could have been him, maybe not. She admits she was drunk. There are time lapses.’
He slammed Ramirez repeatedly for her accusation.
‘Now a new charge comes up and she says it may not be him and there are gaps. And she was totally inebriated and she was all messed up, and she doesn’t know: It might have been him, or it might have been him. Oh gee, let’s not make him a Supreme Court justice,’ Trump said.
‘It’s a shame you can do this to a person’s life,’ he said.
He added: ‘I can tell you that false accusations and false accusations of all type are made against a lot of people. This is a high quality person, and it would be a horrible insult to our country if this doesn’t happen. And it’ll be a horrible, horrible thing for future political people, judges, anybody. It cannot be allowed to happen. And the Democrats are playing a con game, C-O-N.’
Brett Kavanaugh has denied all the allegations against him
Clune also said Ramirez is willing to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee
President Donald Trump is attacking the second accuser of his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Ramirez told The New Yorker she only came forward now because she had been drinking during the evening and admits there are ‘gaps in her memory’ when recollecting the story.
‘She has been very, very careful about what information she’s putting out there. What she said in The New Yorker is what she recalls with clarity. She recalls the incident, the genitalia in her face, she recalls Brett Kavanaugh adjusting his pants and somebody after that Brett Kavanaugh just did that. Those are the facts she is comfortable with putting forward. And she was deliberate not to say specifically that in that exact moment, she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh and saw it was Brett Kavanaugh,’ Clune told the ‘Today Show.’
The president showed his fury at what was happening to his nominee as he spoke at length about what a ‘high quality’ person Kavanaugh is and turned his ire onto Democrats, charging them with running a con game and noting they were beating Republicans in it.
‘I think it is horrible what the Democrats have done,’ the president raged. ‘It is a con game, they are really con artists.’
He also offered a passioned defense of Kavanaugh, saying he was a ‘high quality’ person but Democrats wouldn’t admit to that.
Ronan Farrow, the co-author of The New Yorker story, had defended Ramirez on Monday.
‘The fact that she took several days to carefully think about whether she wanted to cast herself into this storm is acknowledgment that there were gaps in her memory, which is often the case with experiences that involve alcohol, and this is not a woman that is behaving in a way that would suggests she has a agenda, or making something up,’ he told CNN.