Shelby Talcott on September 17, 2019
New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin said Tuesday morning that one of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers was traumatized by the alleged sexual misconduct, even though she doesn’t remember the incident occurring.
An article published Sunday by Pogrebin and Kate Kelly accused Kavanaugh of putting his penis in Deborah Ramirez’s face. The article, prefacing their book “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation,” received pushback for omitting the fact that the alleged victim of a second sexual incident did not remember it.
Pogrebin suggested Tuesday that this may have been because the accuser was too drunk, but added during an interview on “Mornings on the Mall” with Vince Coglianese and Mary Walter that the alleged event “made a lasting formative impact” on the unnamed second accuser.
“I wanted to sort of get ahead of that argument and try to explain why something that maybe somebody of tougher skin…that would not have been so impactful, why it was so damaging to her,” Pogrebin said when discussing why she wrote the NYT original tweet that called the sexual misconduct “harmless fun.”
Pogrebin said this after admitting that the accuser did not remember the new allegation ever occurring.
“I think it’s a distinction to say she has no memory – I mean basically, yes, she has said to friends that she has no memory of this, but also importantly, and sort of what’s equally sort of real is that we have a witness…” Pogrebin noted.
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“I had a feeling that people would say ‘what’s the big deal? This was a drunken party. Everybody behaved, you know, badly, in ways they’re not proud of. Maybe she [Ramirez] could man up and this isn’t necessarily a life-altering event,’” Pogrebin said.
“I wanted to get ahead of that and try to explain that for someone like Deborah Ramirez coming from the world that she did, who already sort of felt like she was behind the eight-ball when she got to Yale and had a sense of inadequacy and insecurity” she said, adding that “having this happen and have people laugh at her because of it and sort of her gullibility only confirmed the fear she had coming in, and therefore made a very lasting formative impact on her.”
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article inaccurately stated that Ramirez could not remember her the details of her accusations. It has been updated to reflect that the statement applied to an unnamed second accuser.
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If they really have to empeach a judge there are many of Obama appointees who really suck at their job to choose from.
i thought folks would get a kick from it.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
hilarious but sooo true
i want kavenaugh arrested right this minute. i remember back in 1989, that i was having a huge crap, and he would not giveme any toilet paper. no i have a fear of going to the can, and not finding any there, in my own home. crazy right, but i think that’s the way it might have happened, i can’t be sure now, because of my fear.
Guess this explains the testimony of every demorat swamp critter who appeared before the Congress who answered “I don’t recall,” “I don’t remember,” “I have no remember of that,” “its beyond my purview,” and the bleachbit erased my memory.” and “Hilary said if I talked I’d be suicided.”
Strange that.
The woman in question should sue the reporter of defamation.
If I were Kavanaugh I would ignore the RATS completely…. the American public know there is nothing here and it is a nonstarter in the senate so just get on down the road and be the best justice you can be…..PERIOD…..
meanwhile men go off to war have ACTUAL horrific things happen and can function!
Democrats live in a pretend world…
ALL THIS IS OUT OF CONTEX SHE HAS NO MEMORY OF IT AND THAN ALL OF SUDDEN THERE IS A WITNESS GET REAL AMERICAN JUST ANOTHER WAY FOR DEMS TO TRY AND GET A GOOOD JUDGE OUT CAUSE THEY WANT THEIR PAID PATTIES IN THERE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE GUTTS TO BE REAL JUDGES AND SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION BUT JUST TO SUPPORT WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS POWER AND SOCIALISUM
GET WISE AMERICAN START FIGHTING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE IS PROOF THAT CLINTON WAS VERY INVOLVED WITH EPSTEIN AND WE ARE DOING NOTHING WE HAVE PROOF HILLARY HAD PEOPLE KILLED AND WE ARE DOING NOTHING WE HAVE PROOF OBAMA HELPED TO PLOT THE INVESTIGATION AND WE ARE DOING NOTHING THESE JUST HAPPENED WHILE THEY WERE BEING PAID BY US THE AMERICAN TAX PAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY SHOULD PUT NADLER BEHIND BARS FOR WASTING MONEY ! WHY DO WE HAVE TERRISTS IN OUR CONGRESS? AMERICAN WAKE UP
For money you mean. Hell these women are not making ass’s of themselves without compensation !!
“traumatized by the alleged sexual misconduct, even though she doesn’t remember the incident occurring.” Huh? give me a break. The anti-American demoncrats are digging up women that are willing to debase themselves for the sake of socialism.