The Matt Walsh Show - September 21, 2018


Ep. 108 - Kavanaugh's Accuser Continues To Discredit Herself


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Christine Ford has a list of conditions that must be met if she is to be allowed to put her allegations on the record. She wants Brett Kavanaugh not to be present during the hearing, and for the committee not to turn it into a media circus.

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00:00:00.000 So Christine Ford, the accuser of Judge Kavanaugh, has now presented a list of demands,
00:00:06.940 conditions that must be met if she's going to testify and put her allegations on the record.
00:00:13.260 Here's the Huffington Post with their report on these conditions. It says,
00:00:18.440 Attorneys for Christine Ford reportedly presented the Senate Judiciary Committee with a list of
00:00:23.260 conditions on Thursday, moving forward negotiations for a hearing before the committee next week.
00:00:26.740 Some of the conditions included Kavanaugh not being present during Blasey's testimony
00:00:30.880 and for the committee to not turn the hearing into a media circus. Oh, yes. Yeah, the committee.
00:00:36.420 They're the ones turning this into a media circus. Attorneys Deborah Katz and Lisa Banks offered 0.94
00:00:40.840 the suggestions during a call held with committee staff members on Thursday night.
00:00:48.400 The negotiations for the hearing mostly focused on logistics and safety issues and lasted about 30
00:00:53.580 minutes. During the call, Blasey's legal team asked that Kavanaugh speak first at the hearing.
00:01:00.300 The attorneys also asked if the senators could preside over questioning instead of bringing an
00:01:05.100 outside counsel. With no female Republicans on the committee, the senators considered using their 0.99
00:01:10.340 female aides to question Blasey at the hearing. Her attorneys also asked if the committee could 0.84
00:01:15.160 subpoena Mark Judge, who's the other guy that was allegedly there. They also discussed having only
00:01:19.060 one camera in the room during the hearing and asked if the hearing could take place on Thursday instead
00:01:23.140 of Monday. OK, so she wants to delay the hearing until Thursday. She doesn't want any lawyers there. 1.00
00:01:29.760 She doesn't want to be questioned by the aides of the committee members. She wants to be questioned
00:01:33.640 by the committee members themselves. She doesn't want Kavanaugh there. And she wants Kavanaugh to testify
00:01:38.520 before her. Now, it's interesting.
00:01:40.360 It's interesting that she doesn't want the female aides to come in and question her. And she doesn't 1.00
00:01:48.580 want any lawyers. She doesn't want to be questioned by lawyers. She wants to be questioned by these
00:01:53.820 Republican men. Right. Now, I wonder why that is. Could it be that Ford wants the damaging and
00:02:02.580 embarrassing spectacle of a bunch of old white men asking her about her alleged teenage sexual assault?
00:02:07.200 Is that does she want to embarrass Republicans and to and to damage them? Well, yeah, that's exactly 1.00
00:02:12.900 what she wants, obviously. But I ask you this. A traumatized woman who is just seeking truth and
00:02:18.820 justice, does she act like this? Is this how she goes about it? Does she make these kinds of 1.00
00:02:24.520 calculations? Is she is she as politically strategic as this? If she just wants to tell the truth and get 0.96
00:02:31.620 the truth out there, is this what she's doing? Does this make sense? And then you have worst of all,
00:02:38.440 you have the demand that Kavanaugh testify first. This is unbelievably absurd.
00:02:46.000 And this is where we have to kind of take the you know, there's no way to dance around it and try
00:02:51.520 to be nice to Christine Ford and everything. No, this is just wrong. That she wants Kavanaugh to defend
00:02:58.560 himself against allegations on the record before the allegations have been made on the record.
00:03:04.880 She wants him to defend himself against her charges before she's made the charges.
00:03:12.080 So what is he defending himself against? Rumors? Media reports? The stuff that he saw on Twitter?
00:03:18.140 No, this is crazy. There's a reason why in a court of law you get to face your accuser, number one,
00:03:22.980 and number two, your accuser makes the accusations first, and then you go. They make the accusations,
00:03:29.360 they present whatever evidence they have, and then you go. You know, but what Ford wants and what
00:03:34.880 the Democrats want, they want innocent, they want guilty until proven innocent. They want the presumption
00:03:40.200 of guilt. And then for then Kavanaugh has to prove his innocence, prove a negative, prove that he didn't
00:03:46.620 do something at some point 35 years ago. And they want him to do that before the actual allegations
00:03:55.540 have been put on the record. This is inexcusable. It's wrong. And it makes Christine Ford look like a 1.00
00:04:07.720 liar. That's what it makes her look like. She is presenting herself as a liar and a manipulator. 0.99
00:04:14.580 Now, I don't know if she's either of those things, but that is how she's presenting herself right now.
00:04:21.420 And there seems to be this certain, you know, attitude that, well, because Ford is a victim,
00:04:26.140 she should get to do what she wants and she's above criticism. But there's a problem with that
00:04:31.360 attitude. First of all, I'm not at all convinced that she is a victim. You know, that's the, that's the,
00:04:38.040 the, the, we don't operate under the assumption that she's a victim. She has to prove that.
00:04:42.860 And she hasn't proved it. So, you know, liberals are obviously going to operate under the assumption 0.99
00:04:49.840 that she's telling the truth, but they're operating under that assumption because it would be
00:04:53.840 politically convenient for them if she, if she were telling the truth. So that's why they decided
00:04:58.200 that she is. But of course, in reality, we have been given no reason to believe Ford at this point.
00:05:04.020 We've been given a lot of reasons not to believe her. You know, the lack of evidence, the lack of
00:05:09.220 detail, the way this stuff has been presented, um, her, her, her unwillingness to just come forward
00:05:14.300 straightforwardly and tell the story, I mean, all these things, they, they have, they have only
00:05:18.740 enhanced the credibility of Kavanaugh and they've detracted from her, from her credibility. So we
00:05:22.940 have been given no reason whatsoever at this point to believe anything she's saying. She has acted every
00:05:29.760 step of the way, like a political agent. She has acted like somebody with an agenda. Okay.
00:05:34.780 And that is an agenda beyond simply telling the truth. And here's the other thing.
00:05:41.560 Even if she is telling the truth, even if she did have this experience with Kavanaugh 35 years ago,
00:05:47.520 which again, I'm not at all convinced that she did, but even if she did,
00:05:50.960 that doesn't mean that she's beyond reproach. It doesn't mean she gets to dictate terms. It doesn't
00:05:58.180 mean that, um, that we can't hold her to some kind of standard. It doesn't put her above criticism.
00:06:02.720 This is one of the worst things about, about, about modern American culture. A modern American 1.00
00:06:07.340 culture is this idea, this idea that victimhood puts you above criticism, above scrutiny. And we
00:06:14.200 say, well, she's a victim. So it's, so it's okay. No, no, that's wrong. Whether she's telling the truth
00:06:20.100 or not. And I don't think we are getting the truth from her, at least not the whole truth,
00:06:26.420 but how she has handled this situation has been in my view, simply wrong, terribly wrong, awfully wrong.
00:06:35.340 Starting with the decision to hold onto this story for 35 years and then drop it like a bomb into the
00:06:39.580 middle of a Supreme court confirmation hearing. Listen, I, you know, I know, I know not everyone
00:06:43.420 will agree with this, but I really think that if you have a terrible experience, if something terrible
00:06:48.540 happens to you, like the thing that Ford alleges, um, and if you're going to come forward and tell
00:06:55.680 that story at all, it's reasonable to expect that you do that sometime before the 35 year mark. Okay.
00:07:02.580 And if you wait that long and you've told no one and you have no evidence, well, then you know what?
00:07:11.500 It's too late. You waited too long. You waited until there's no chance that you can prove your
00:07:17.960 allegations. And now you're coming forward at the worst possible time.
00:07:25.440 And you could say, well, she just wants justice. What? She didn't want justice, uh, 0.99
00:07:28.520 right after it happened. She didn't want justice five years after it happened, 10 years after it
00:07:31.860 happened, 20 years after it happened, 25 years after it happened, 30 years after it happened. She
00:07:35.500 didn't want justice any of those times. And now she suddenly wants justice. I don't know. I, you know,
00:07:38.920 I'm, I'm sorry. I just don't, uh, and not only did she wait this long, but she's been playing
00:07:44.720 these games. I will testify. I won't testify. Okay. I'll come, but here are my conditions. I don't
00:07:48.520 want one camera there. I don't want him there. I want him to go first. Uh, I want the committee
00:07:51.880 members. I don't want the female aides. I don't want lawyers, so on and so forth. And the whole 1.00
00:07:55.520 country has to wait with bated breath while Christine Ford decides what she wants to do. And this is okay 1.00
00:08:00.640 because why? Because, because she says she was assaulted 35 years ago. No, you know, that, that,
00:08:04.660 that, that's crazy. It doesn't justify it. It doesn't.
00:08:15.280 Victimhood does not give you this kind of currency where you get to do whatever you want
00:08:20.260 without being subject to any kind of scrutiny.
00:08:28.380 You know, Donald Trump is, Donald Trump sent out some tweets this morning and he's getting a lot of
00:08:31.860 criticism because he said, uh, well, you know, if this happened, why didn't she call the police?
00:08:37.020 And, uh, and, and yeah, I know there are plenty of times when somebody is really victimized, raped,
00:08:41.640 you know, et cetera. And they don't, they don't go to the police for any number of reasons. You know,
00:08:45.360 they're afraid, they're confused. They, they have guilt, they, whatever. Uh, so, so many different
00:08:50.580 things, but, but I think it's still a legitimate question. It's, it's, it's a totally legitimate
00:08:56.800 question because you never went to the local police and now you want the FBI to investigate
00:09:03.100 35 years. So you had all that time. You never went to the local law enforcement. And then,
00:09:06.800 and then 35 years later, you want the FBI to investigate. I think it's a perfectly reasonable
00:09:10.880 question to ask. Why didn't you ever report this to anybody? That is a very reasonable question
00:09:19.760 and it deserves an answer. And it's an answer that should have already been given.
00:09:28.140 Um, and I think there's a, there's a very real question to be asked about, like,
00:09:35.900 even if something like this happened,
00:09:38.580 even if something like this happened, is it the right thing to do to come out 35 years later
00:09:47.200 to try to use it against the person while they're on the cusp of some kind of, you know,
00:09:52.840 promotion or something? Like you hold onto it all this time and now you want to use it to destroy
00:10:00.100 them, um, 35 years later. Is that really the right thing to do? Does it automatically become right
00:10:09.020 because of your victim status? I don't think so. Now let me stipulate one thing. I,
00:10:16.940 I don't think that Christine Ford is the villain in this situation. Um,
00:10:22.140 I think she's made decisions and behaved in a way that is pretty inexcusable, but the villains are
00:10:27.740 the Democrats and they obviously are using her. They are happily eagerly destroying Brett Kavanaugh
00:10:35.320 and they're pretending suddenly to care about women, even though they didn't care about women
00:10:39.500 when Bill Clinton was raping them. Allegedly, they didn't care about women when Ted Kennedy drowned
00:10:43.860 one in his car. So now they're pretending to, so they're liars. But what makes this even more
00:10:47.840 disgusting, what makes this just so dark and evil is the reason why they are doing this. Yeah. The
00:10:53.580 reason is they want to prevent obviously Kavanaugh for being confirmed, but why do they want to
00:10:56.820 prevent it? Why are they so desperate to prevent it? In fact, they're so desperate to get rid of
00:11:00.300 Kavanaugh with it. Now there's a few Democrats have gone on the record now and said that even if
00:11:05.420 Kavanaugh is confirmed, when the Democrats are in control of Congress, they're going to investigate him
00:11:10.220 anyway. That's how desperate they are to get rid of him, that they will investigate a sitting Supreme
00:11:14.960 Court justice because of allegations from 35 years ago. So when they get into power, they want to
00:11:22.760 impeach the president and they want to get rid of a Supreme Court justice. But why? Why are they so
00:11:29.740 desperate to stop Kavanaugh from being a Supreme Court justice? Well, we all know the answer. The answer
00:11:34.900 is abortion. You know, there's a reason why Supreme Court hearings turn into a circus only after Roe v.
00:11:41.120 Wade. Democrats are desperate to hold on to their ability and their power to kill babies. They are
00:11:51.340 owned by the abortion industry. They have sold their soul to the abortion industry. And liberals have
00:11:58.460 this godlike power to kill babies and they are desperate to hold on to it. And they will do
00:12:03.560 anything. That's what this is about. So remember that. Remember what this is really about. It's about
00:12:12.740 killing babies. All right. I'm going to cut it off early. I'm going to leave it there. Hope you guys
00:12:16.860 have a great weekend. Godspeed.