NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [9-25-18] asked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about two new allegations against him, according to a transcript of a conference call released by the committee. In the transcript released Wednesday [9-26-18], Kavanaugh denied an allegation that he assaulted a woman he was dating in 1998 while working for independent counsel Ken Starr that investigators said stemmed from an anonymous complaint sent to Colorado GOP Sen. Cory Gardner…Kavanaugh then was asked about, and categorically denied, an allegation made by a Rhode Island man — whose name was redacted from the transcript — raised in a call to Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s office ‘concerning a rape on a boat in August of 1985.’ Kavanaugh has denied three other allegations against him, all involving women who have come forward publicly. At one point, far along into the call, Kavanaugh said he was facing a ‘smear campaign’ and suggested newly revealed allegations were ‘just absurd and outrageous, coordinated perhaps.'”
–Eli Watkins, “Kavanaugh denies two additional accusations to Senate Judiciary Committee,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 26, 2018 11:48 pm