Journalist Mark Judge, the highschool buddy of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has publicly claimed Democrats threatened and extorted him into doubtlessly supporting Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation of sexual assault.
In an explosive interview with Martha MacCallum for Fox Nation, Judge stated Democrat operatives combed by way of his well-documented historical past of alcoholism, one thing he chronicled within the 1997 guide Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, as a method to blackmail him.
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Judge, buddy and former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, is talking out for the primary time on digicam after his life was turned the wrong way up by the Supreme Court affirmation fiasco.
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“They thought, ‘Okay, if we can get Mark Judge involved in this, we can sink Kavanaugh. But we have to get Mark Judge involved in this,’” Judge instructed MacCallum.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends his ceremonial swearing in within the East Room of the White House October 08, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was confirmed within the Senate 50-48 after a contentious course of that included a number of girls accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“And they thought it would be easy,” continued Judge. “They thought, ‘Okay, this is an easy hit. We will get Judge involved. We will get him down there in front of the committee. He’s a recovering alcoholic. He’s got a past we can comb through for days and this will completely implode Kavanaugh.’”
Judge additional alleged that operatives and Democrat allies pushed him to change his story and sink Brett Kavanaugh with the promise that he could be thought-about a “hero” if he confirmed Christine Blasey Ford’s story.
“Several people said, ‘Yeah, you jumped on the bed and broke things up. You prevented this. You’re the hero here. You say that and you’re home free,’” Judge stated. “I had journalists who I had been friends with sending me emails: ‘Do it, Mark. Do it for humanity. Lie about this for humanity.’”
“Extortion and direct threats” had been allegedly used to strain him, Judge claimed.
“On September 24, 2018, my birthday, I got a call from a California number. They were brilliant enough to leave a message: ‘You like effing with people, Mark. I like effing with people, too. You better change your story,” he stated.
Mark selected not to testify on the time, believing it might have simply been a circus of senators using his well-documented previous of alcoholism to destroy his character.
“They had been researching stuff that I knew nothing about. I knew they would be bringing stuff up that I was not prepared for but they would make into a big deal,” he stated.
Judge additionally feared for his psychological well being and admitted to having suicidal ideas.
“When you have suicidal ideation, it’s terrifying. I wanted to be numb and disappear,” he stated.
Since its launch final week, the company media have been heaping reward on Christine Blasey Ford’s guide, One Way Back: A Memoir, hailing it as a triumphant return to the occasions of 2018. During an look on The View, as an illustration, co-host Joy Behar even took a moment to scold male members of the viewers for not applauding Christine Blasey Ford’s presence.
Conspicuously absent all through the entire company media’s reward of Ford’s guide are any mentions of Mark Judge’s 2022 memoir, The Devil’s Triangle (available on Amazon), wherein he chronicled his expertise behind the scenes, away from the media circus, discovering himself in a Kafka-esque situation as Democrat operatives and their media allies engaged in witness tampering, extortion, and outright cruelty of their quest to destroy an harmless man.
“At first I almost didn’t do the Fox Nation interview. It’s just too traumatic reliving that dark time. Yet I had questions,” Judge instructed Breitbart News on Tuesday. “Why was I referred to in Blasey Ford’s letter as ‘Mark G. Judge’? That’s an old journalism byline – like they were researching me. In my book, I argue Ford was using an oppo researcher all summer before the hit. Am I wrong? I’m only quoted in her book via government records – are they afraid of something?”
“Also, Ford told Ruth Marcus she thought about getting in touch with me in the summer of 2018 but ‘didn’t know how.’ Really? I’m a journalist who has lived in D.C. his entire life. She didn’t know how to contact me? All the suffering Christine Blasey Ford caused could have been avoided. This all could have been done in private. Her ‘team’ still refuses to answer my questions. I’ve been asking them for five years,” he added.
For the primary week of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s affirmation listening to, all the pieces appeared enterprise as common. Despite some temporary theatrics from sure Democrat senators, it appeared the choose would coast to his rightful place as President Donald Trump’s second nominee to the Supreme Court. That all took a darkish, sinister activate the Sunday of September 16, 2018, when the Washington Post published an allegation from psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford claiming that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a highschool celebration within the Nineteen Eighties, to which his longtime buddy, Mark Judge, served witness. Blasey Ford notably didn’t recall when stated sexual assault occured. As the Post detailed on the time:
While his buddy watched, she stated, Kavanaugh pinned her to a mattress on her again and groped her over her garments, grinding his physique in opposition to hers and clumsily trying to pull off her one-piece bathing go well with and the clothes she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she stated, he put his hand over her mouth.
“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” stated Ford, now a 51-year-old analysis psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”
Ford stated she was ready to escape when Kavanaugh’s buddy and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on prime of them, sending all three tumbling. She stated she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a toilet after which fled the home.
Ford couldn’t recall the place or when the celebration occurred or how she returned residence that evening. Even extra vital, Ford’s childhood buddy, Leland Ingraham Keyser, stated she had no recollection of being on the celebration Ford described and even had no reminiscence of ever assembly Brett Kavanaugh. Mark Judge additionally stated he had no recollection of such a celebration, telling the FBI beneath oath that he by no means noticed his buddy Brett Kavanaugh assault anybody throughout their time collectively in highschool.
Despite intense protests and calls from leftists to smash him, Brett Kavanaugh received the day and made it to the Supreme Court.
“At its dark heart, this was a witness tampering and extortion operation,” Mark Judge told Breitbart News final 12 months. “I got a phone call from California on September 14, 2018, threatening to extort me. They were dumb enough to leave a message. and I gave it to the FBI.”
“Leland Keyser said she was told nasty things could be said about her if she did not back up Ford,” he added on the time. “I don’t know if Ford was involved in that or if it was others, but that’s all this was. Forget about the yearbooks, the teen slang, the stuff about the 1980s. They did opposition research and then tried to extort me and tried to witness tamper. That’s what it was. For people looking to simplify the fall of 2018, it was, exactly as Brett said, a well-orchestrated political hit. It was a crime.”
As Mark Judge beforehand recalled to Breitbart News, the previous 5 years have been a tough highway for him, and he nonetheless suffers PTSD from the incident. As he says in his GoFundMe campaign, “I don’t think even today people know how deep or dark the hit on me was.” Fortunately, his guide has given individuals a small perception into his terrifying expertise.
— Mark Judge (@markgjudge) March 18, 2024
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